 After playing in one Test match against the South African team on a stopover when returning from England to Australia , Trumble retired from Test cricket , aged 35 . When Australia lost to the English tourists in the First Test in Sydney in 1903 – 04 , Trumble was persuaded to return for the Second Test under the captaincy of Noble . He was immediately successful taking 4 wickets for 107 runs in the first innings and 5 for 34 in the second , but was unable to prevent England from winning the Test by 185 runs Selected for the remaining four Tests , his 24 wickets in four Tests made Trumble the most successful Australian bowler in the series . The writer Roland Perry described Trumble 's final Test match as " the most dramatic and memorable farewell performance ever by a bowler " . In front of his home town supporters in Melbourne , he took 7 wickets for 28 runs , including a hat @-@ trick , to bowl Australia to victory ; Wisden describing his bowling in the second innings as " practically unplayable " . The hat @-@ trick , his second in Test cricket , consisted of the dismissals of Bernard Bosanquet , Plum Warner and Dick Lilley on 7 March . He went on to take the wicket of Ted Arnold , ending the match and his career in international cricket . 
