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[Zeeshan]

The Ashes - 3rd Test
England v Australia
Match drawn
Test no. 62 | 1899 season
Played at Headingley, Leeds
29,30 June, 1 July 1899 (3-day match)

Scorecard

• Briggs suffered a violent fit on the first night of this first Test in Yorkshire, was detained in Cheadle Asylum and played no further cricket until the next season.
• Hearne did the hat-trick in the second innings when he dismissed Hill, Gregory and Noble for 'ducks'.
• England required a further 158 runs for victory when rain caused the final day's play to be abandoned.

John Thomas Hearne

...The sensation of the match came when the Australians went in for the second time. Worrall and Darling opened the innings in such style that 34 runs were scored in twenty minutes. Then, however, there came an astounding collapse. Worrall, at 34, was well caught in the deep field and in the following over J. T. Hearne did the hat trick. With the third ball be bowled Clement Hill; from the fourth Gregory was caught at extra slip, and from the fifth, amid indescribable excitement, Noble was caught at slip by Ranjitsinhji....

Almanack