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Ronald Arthur Hamence (25 November 1915 – 24 March 2010) was a cricketer who played for South Australia (SA) and Australia.〔Obituary ''The Times'', 27 March 2010.〕 A short and compact right-handed batsman, Hamence excelled in getting forward to drive and had an array of attractive back foot strokes.〔Pollard, p. 506.〕 Already the youngest Australian to play district cricket, he was also, from the death of Bill Brown in 2008 until his own death in 2010, the oldest surviving Australian Test cricketer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oldest living players )〕 While Hamence only played three Test matches for his national team, he had a successful domestic career, being called South Australia's most successful batsman in 1950.〔Alexander, p. 730.〕 He played 99 first-class matches from 1935 until 1951,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ron Hamence )〕 which brought him a career total of 5,285 runs that came at an average of 37.75 runs per innings and included 11 centuries.〔 He scored two of these centuries in his first and last first-class matches. ==Career== Born in the Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Ron Hamence )〕 Hamence was the cousin of Charlie Walker, a fellow Australian cricketer.〔ed. Cashman, R. et al. (1997)''The A-Z of Australian cricketers'', Oxford University Press: Melbourne.〕 At 15 years and 25 days, Hamence became the youngest district cricketer in South Australian cricket history when he made his debut for Adelaide club West Torrens in 1930.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=West Torrens District Cricket Club )〕 While playing with the SA team, he worked as a public servant at the Government Printing Office. He was a compact batsman preferring attack over defence, however he suffered a weakness throughout his career against fast bowling.〔 He joined South Australia part way through the 1935–36 season, and in March 1936, he scored a century (121) on his first-class cricket debut against Tasmania at the Adelaide Oval.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 South Australia v Tasmania: Other First-Class matches 1935/36 )〕 This was to be his only match of the season, which left him with a debut season average of 121.00.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Ron Hamence )〕 At the start of his first full season, he followed this up with scores of 16 and four against the touring England team and Victoria and seven and 19 against New South Wales. On Christmas Day, 1936, however, he scored his second first-class century, 104 against Queensland in the first innings. He would go on to score 52 in the second.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Match by Match statistics - Ron Hamence )〕 Scores of three not out, 28, 27, 35 and four followed before his next significant score, 52, against Queensland on 12 February 1937.〔 He ended the season with 336 runs, one century, and an average of 30.54.〔 He then suffered his worst period of form thus far at the start of the 1937–38 season, failing to reach double figures from 17 December 1937 until early January 1938, when he scored 64 in the second innings, against Victoria.〔 He followed this with 49 against New South Wales, and ended his third season with 283 runs at an average of 21.76.〔 He did not play another cricket match until 16 December 1938 at the start of the next season, however he returned with a score of 90 against New South Wales, and followed that up two matches later with 84 against Victoria.〔 He narrowly missed out on his third century in November 1939 when he was caught by Morris Sievers for 99 against Victoria.〔 He scored 41, 12, 6 and 20 to see out the rest of the year,〔 ending with 239 runs at an average of 47.80, his most successful full season thus far.〔 In 1940, he began the year with 26 and two against Queensland, and then a 43 against New South Wales. A series of low scores followed until he hit a vein of strong form beginning in February of that year. He scored 63 against Western Australia on 16 February 1940 in his last match of the 1939–40 season.〔 He began the following season with 41 in the following match against New South Wales.〔 Hamence then enjoyed great success against Victoria, where he scored 130 and 103 not out in one inter-state match, and then 85 and 62 in the next. Following this, in a match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between two representative selections to raise money for the war effort, he played for Don Bradman's XI and scored 73 and 35.〔 He returned to play for South Australia for a match against New South Wales, where he scored 31 and five.〔 He ended the 1940–41 season with the highest average for a single season he would achieve in his career, 569 runs at 63.22, with two hundreds.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ron Hamence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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