# Tom Tabart

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**Thomas Alfred Tabart** (10 August 1877 – 29 August 1950) was a [cricketer](/source/Cricket) who played [first-class cricket](/source/First-class_cricket) for [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania_cricket_team) from 1897 until 1909.

## Career

A "vigorous batsman and safe slip fieldsman",[1] Tabart made his first-class debut in 1896–97. He played his first innings of note in 1902–03 when he batted at number six and top-scored with 43 in Tasmania's second innings against [Victoria](/source/Victoria_cricket_team) at the [MCG](/source/MCG). Tasmania won by 57 runs.[2]

Against [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales_cricket_team) in [Hobart](/source/Hobart) in 1904–05 he made Tasmania's top score in the match when he scored 48 in the second innings, adding 83 for the first wicket with Ossie Douglas and giving [Charles Eady](/source/Charles_Eady) and [Edward Windsor](/source/Edward_Windsor_(cricketer)) the chance to bowl New South Wales out for another Tasmanian victory.[3]

Tabart's best performances came in two matches against the [MCC](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) in January 1908 as an opening batsman. In the first match, in [Launceston](/source/Launceston,_Tasmania), he top-scored in the first innings with 57, and took three wickets in the MCC first innings, including that of [Jack Hobbs](/source/Jack_Hobbs), Tabart's second wicket in first-class cricket.[4] In the second match, in Hobart a few days later, he made his only other first-class fifty, 55 in the second innings, to help Tasmania hold out for a draw.[5]

He captained Tasmania in his final first-class match, against Victoria in Hobart in 1908–09, scoring 22 and 38 in a match that Victoria won by four wickets.[6]

Tabart played regularly in the biannual intrastate matches in Tasmania between North and South: for the South team from 1896–97 to 1897–98, for North in 1902–03, and for South again from 1903–04 to 1908–09, captaining South in his last match.[7] In the 1903–04 match in Hobart he scored 130 in the second innings and took five catches in the match.[8]

Tabart was secretary of the Tasmanian Racing Club from 1903 to 1925, then moved to Melbourne and became secretary of the [Victorian Amateur Turf Club](/source/Melbourne_Racing_Club). He and his wife Josephine had a son and a daughter.[9]

Although he did not meet the stated criteria for notability, Tabart's date of birth (given as 1879) appeared in the Births and Deaths section of *[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)* up to and including the 1974 edition; his death was never acknowledged.[10]

Tabart's uncle, [John Tabart](/source/John_Tabart), played for Tasmania in what is now considered to be the first first-class cricket match in Australia, in 1850–51.[11]

## References

1. *[The Mercury](/source/The_Mercury_(Hobart))*, Hobart, 1 September 1950, p. 13.

1. [Victoria v Tasmania 1902-03](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6126.html)

1. [Tasmania v New South Wales 1904-05](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6655.html)

1. [Tasmania v MCC, Launceston 1907-08](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7493.html)

1. [Tasmania v MCC, Hobart 1907-08](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7495.html)

1. [Tasmania v Victoria 1908-09](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7772.html)

1. [Miscellaneous matches played by Tom Tabart](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2737/Miscellaneous_Matches.html)

1. [South v North 1903-04](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/179/179422.html)

1. *The Mercury*, Hobart, 1 September 1950, p. 13.

1. *Wisden* 1974, p. 1064, *Wisden* 1975, p. 1064.

1. ["Tasmania v Victoria, 1850/51"](http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1850S/1850-51/AUS_LOCAL/TAS_VIC_11-12FEB1851.html). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 24 April 2024.

## External links

- [Thomas Tabart at Cricinfo](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7911.html)

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