William Harold Ponsford, (born October 19, 1900, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia—died April 6, 1991, Kyneton, Victoria), Australian cricketer, one of many sport’s most prolific scorers. He was the primary to make a quadruple century since Archie MacLaren first broke 400 in 1895 and the one participant to exceed 400 twice in first-class matches.
Ponsford made an inauspicious debut for Victoria in February 1921 however scored 162 in his solely first-class look the subsequent season. In his first innings in 1922–23 he batted for 7 hours 57 minutes, scoring 429 to prime MacLaren’s document of 424, and in 1924–25 he turned the primary man to hit a whole bunch in his first two Test matches.
Ponsford dominated Australian first-class cricket within the mid-Nineteen Twenties, hitting three centuries in 1925–26 and 6 (together with one double and one triple) in solely 10 innings within the 1926–27 season. His document 437 got here in 10 hours 21 minutes the next December. In his final Test innings—in opposition to England in August 1934—he scored 266 in a second-wicket partnership of 451 with Don Bradman, an combination Test document that stood till 1991. Ponsford retired quickly thereafter, having achieved a profession complete of 13,819 runs (common 65.18) and 47 centuries (13 exceeding 200), together with 2,122 runs (common 48.22) and 7 centuries in Test matches.