page_title: Victor Trumper
section_title: 1903-04 Ashes
hierarchical_section_title: Victor Trumper / Life and career / 1903-04 Ashes
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian cricketer Victor Trumper "jumping out for a straight drive".
context_page_description: Victor Thomas Trumper was an Australian cricketer known as the most stylish and versatile batsman of the Golden Age of cricket, capable of playing match-winning innings on wet wickets his contemporaries found unplayable. Archie MacLaren said of him, "Compared to Victor I was a cab-horse to a Derby winner". Trumper was also a key figure in the foundation of rugby league in Australia.
  He was the first cricketer to score 7 and 8 centuries in Test match cricket.
context_section_description: Trumper played all five tests during the 1903-04 Ashes.  In the first test he scored 1 in the first innings but 185 in the second.
  In the second he made 74 and 35, Australia's top score in both innings.
  His good form continued in the third test where he made 113 and 59. In the fourth test he scored 7 and 12, and made 88 and 0 in the last game.
  He made 990 first class runs that summer at 55, with a top score of 185.
  In August 1904, Trumper, with Hanson Carter, opened a sports store in Market Street, Sydney.
caption: "Jumping out for a straight drive", George Beldam, c. 1905 – arguably the most famous photograph in the history of cricket[32]
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