Club Career
Burn was a prolific batsman in Tasmanian cricket for many years, playing first for his hometown side Richmond CC, and then the higher profile Wellington CC. He hit 41 centuries in all grades of cricket, two of them over 350 runs, and six of them in consecutive innings in the 1895-96 season. Without peer, he was undoubtedly Tasmania's best batsman of the 1890s at club and first-class level, leading the Tasmanian Grade Cricket batting averages on 11 occasions throughout his career. He also set two long-standing Australian club cricket records by scoring 1,200 runs at an average of 133.00 in the 1889-1900 season, and in scoring 123 not out and 213 not out for Wellington against Break O' Day in 1895-96, he became the first man to score a century and double century in the same match in Australia. By the time of his retirement from club cricket, Burn had amassed 12,163 runs which is still the second highest total in the competition's history. Only Ronald Morrisby who made an astonishing 16,000 runs in the 1950s has a higher total. Burn also took 362 wickets in his club career.
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