page_title: Jack Badcock
section_title: Early career in Tasmania
hierarchical_section_title: Jack Badcock / Early career in Tasmania
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of the Tasmanian team that played the South Africans in Hobart in January 1932. Standing, left to right: W.T. Lonergan (umpire), Gerald James, Rex Townley, Owen Burrows, D.G Hickman (manager), Gordon Gibson (12th man), Les Richardson, Laurie Nash, M. Leonard (umpire). Seated: Jack Badcock, Alf Rushforth, Jim Atkinson (captain), Doug Green, Cyril Parry, Ron Morrisby.
context_page_description: Clayvel Lindsay "Jack" Badcock was an Australian cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1936 to 1938.
context_section_description: Born in Exton, in the north of Tasmania near Deloraine, Badcock was the second youngest player for Tasmania in first-class cricket, making his debut in 1929–30 at the age of 15. Opening the batting, he top-scored in each innings for Tasmania against the MCC at Launceston in 1932–33, making 57 and 43 not out.
  In 1933–34 he played five first-class matches and scored 803 runs at 89.22. In three matches against Victoria he scored 25, 107, 274, 71 not out, 104 and 40, and in two matches against the Australians before their tour of England he scored 105, 24, 47 and 6. In all cricket that season he made 1970 runs at an average of 98.50. On the advice of Clarrie Grimmett he moved to Adelaide in June 1934, taking a job as a furniture salesman.
caption: The Tasmanian team that played the South Africans at Hobart in January 1932. Jack Badcock is seated at left.
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