Ron Hamence

Ron Hamence

Hamene batting in about 1946
Personal information
Full name	Ronald Arthur Hamence
Born	(1915-11-25)25 November 1915 Hindmarsh, South Australia
Died	24 March 2010(2010-03-24) (aged 94) Adelaide, South Australia
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
Role	Specialist batsman
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 176)	28 February 1947 v England
Last Test	1 January 1948 v India
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1935/36–1950/51	South Australia
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class Matches 3 99 Runs scored 81 5,285 Batting average 27.00 37.75 100s/50s 0/0 11/26 Top score 30* 173 Balls bowled – 517 Wickets – 8 Bowling average – 29.87 5 wickets in innings – 0 10 wickets in match – 0 Best bowling – 2/13 Catches/stumpings 1/– 34/–
Source: CricketArchive, 26 February 2008

Ronald Arthur Hamence (25 November 1915 – 24 March 2010) was a cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia.^[1] A short and compact right-handed batsman, Hamence excelled in getting forward to drive and had an array of attractive back foot strokes.^[2] 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.^[3][4]

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.^[5] He played 99 first-class matches from 1935 until 1951,^[6] 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.^[6] He scored two of these centuries in his first and last first-class matches.