page_title: William Moule
section_title: Cricket career
hierarchical_section_title: William Moule / Cricket career
caption_attribution_description: English: Judge Moule
context_page_description: William Henry Moule was an Australian lawyer, politician and cricketer.
context_section_description: Moule was a moderate batsman, useful bowler and excellent fieldsman.  His cricket career was short, and though he played a few times for Victoria, most of his first-class appearances were on the 1880 tour of England with the Australian team under Billy Murdoch. 
  He played in the one Test match of the tour, a hastily arranged match at The Oval which was the first Test in England. Moule's success to that point had been modest – no innings of note and only one wicket – and he played only because Fred Spofforth was injured. In the Test he batted at No 11 and was the sixth bowler tried. With three wickets for 23 runs he was the most successful bowler in England's first innings and his 34 in Australia's second innings helped in a last-wicket partnership of 88 with his captain that avoided an innings defeat.
  He was the last surviving player on either side from the 1880 Test.
caption: William Moule, 1935.
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