State Cricket
He played in 69 Sheffield Shield cricket matches for Victoria, from 1946 to 1956, scoring 867 runs, and taking 218 wickets. He took a wicket, bowling the South Australian batsman Thomas Elliott Klose, with the first ball he ever bowled for Victoria.
He was also famous for not scoring what might have been the easiest runs ever scored in a Sheffield Shield Cricket in the first innings of Victoria's match against New South Wales, at the St Kilda Cricket Ground on Saturday, 24 December 1955:
Hill Misses a Golf Shot
Victorian top-spinner Jack Hill played at the slowest ball bowled to him in inter-State cricket on Saturday — and missed. Later in the day at the Shield game at St. Kilda the greasy ball slipped from Pat Crawford's hand as he approached the bowling crease. The ball trickled slowly towards square leg and stopped rolling about level with the batting crease. Hill walked across, addressed the ball in true golf fashion, swung hard . . . . and made an "air shot". As soon as Hill's swing was completed Ian Craig stepped in and picked up the ball. Under the laws of cricket a batsman is entitled to hit any ball considered by the umpire to have been delivered that comes to rest in front of the batting wicket. No fieldsman has the right to Interfere while the batsman is playing the stroke. — The Argus, Monday, 26 December 1955.
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