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Richard Joseph Hassett (7 September 1909 – 15 November 2006) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1930 to 1932. He was the elder brother of Lindsay Hassett.

Dick Hassett

Personal information
Full name	Richard Joseph Hassett
Born	(1909-09-07)7 September 1909 Geelong, Victoria
Died	15 November 2006(2006-11-15) (aged 97) Melbourne
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm leg-spin
Relations	Lindsay Hassett (brother) John Shaw (nephew)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1929–30 to 1931–32	Victoria
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 8 Runs scored 397 Batting average 56.71 100s/50s 2/1 Top score 114 not out Balls bowled 1272 Wickets 21 Bowling average 33.00 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 4/50 Catches/stumpings 4/0
Source: Cricket Archive, 15 May 2015

Born in Geelong, Dick Hassett went to The Geelong College with his brothers Harry, Vincent and Lindsay.[1] In 1928–29 he played for a Geelong team against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club, taking the wicket of Jack Hobbs.[2] A few weeks later, playing for Newtown & Chilwell in the semi-final of the Geelong competition, he took 9 for 16 and ran out the tenth batsman.[3]

Along with three other young Victorians he made his first-class debut for Victoria in 1929–30 against Western Australia, taking four wickets and top-scoring in the first innings with 58.[4] A month later he played against Tasmania, taking 3 for 27 and 4 for 50, getting the 15-year-old Jack Badcock stumped off his bowling in each innings on his first-class debut.[5] Victoria won both matches.

Hassett's only match for a full-strength Victorian team came in 1930–31 against the touring West Indians. Victoria won again, but Hassett made a duck and took only one wicket.[6] He played two matches against Tasmania later that season. In the first innings of the first match in Hobart, coming to the wicket at number eight with the score on 6 for 98, Hassett scored 114 not out, reaching his century in 138 minutes, and Victoria totalled 342.[7] In the next match, in Launceston a few days later, he batted at number six and scored 102, reaching his century in 148 minutes, taking Victoria to a first-innings lead after Tasmania had made 446.[8]

Despite his success in these two matches, Hassett never played a Sheffield Shield match. He played three times against Tasmania in 1931–32, with moderate success, and then devoted himself to his career. He worked as a chemical engineer, employed for 43 years by the clothing manufacturer Holeproof in Melbourne.[9] For some years before his death at the age of 97 he was the oldest living Victorian player.[10]

See also

• List of Victoria first-class cricketers

References

External links

• Dick Hassett at Cricinfo
• Dick Hassett at CricketArchive

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