John William Trumble (16 September 1863 – 17 August 1944) was an

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who played in seven

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between 1885 and 1886. He was the older brother of the Test cricketer

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and the senior Australian public servant

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Career

Trumble studied law at the

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and played cricket for

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in the Melbourne senior competition. His participation in the 1886 tour of England meant he had to delay his final examinations by one year. He moved to

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in country Victoria in 1888 to practise as a solicitor. He founded the Nhill legal firm of Trumble and Palmer, and remained in Nhill until 1906, when he returned to Melbourne. His cricket career was short as he chose to focus on his legal career. 1886 Australia national cricket team

While never reaching the lofty standards of his brother Hugh, Billy Trumble was an accurate off-break bowler for

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and a sound and patient batsman.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 543. He produced some useful performances in his seven Tests for Australia, with a top score of 59 in his first Test, and best figures of 3 for 29 later in the same 1884–85 series. He was fourth among the first-class run-scorers on the tour of England in 1886, with 823 runs at an average of 19.13, and was also one of the leading players on the

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that followed, coming second in the run-scoring with 218 runs at an average of 27.25. In the opening match against

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he top-scored in each innings with 30 (out of a team total of 60) and 52, to help the Australians to victory after a difficult start. Trumble's highest first-class score was 87 for Victoria in the victory over

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in 1884–85, which was immediately followed by selection for his Test debut. His best figures were 6 for 33 against New South Wales in 1888–89, when he bowled unchanged to help dismiss New South Wales for 63 when they needed only 76 to win. He was only 26 when he played his last match for Victoria in December 1889. He played two final first-class matches while on a private visit to England in 1893. In the first of them, he top-scored for C. I. Thornton's XI against

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with a bright 55 in the second innings.

Personal life

Trumble married Susan Davies in

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in January 1889. They had seven children, of whom three sons and three daughters survived him. Susan died in 1938; he died in 1944, aged 80.

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