Alan Kippax — Australia's Stylist of the 1920s

Trumper had died in 1915. Macartney was nearing the end of his career by 1925. The Australian batting tradition needed a successor in the Trumper line, and Kippax — coached personally by Trumper as a teenager in Sydney — was the obvious candidate.

Kippax had been a NSW player since 1918 and was widely regarded as the most graceful batsman in Australian first-class cricket from his 1922 hundreds onward. He was Trumper's protégé in style — a wristy, off-side player with all the strokes — but had been kept out of the Test side through the early 1920s by the established middle-order trio of Bardsley, Collins and Macartney.

The 1925-26 Sheffield Shield season produced his breakthrough: 1,309 runs at 65.45, including a century against each of the other Sheffield Shield states. He made his Test debut at Sydney in February 1925 against Gilligan's MCC, scoring 42 and 8. He played 22 Tests in total between 1925 and 1934, scoring 1,192 runs at 36.12 with two centuries.

Kippax's most memorable Test innings was his 100 in the third Test of the 1928-29 Ashes at Melbourne, when he and Don Bradman put on 161 for the seventh wicket. His Sheffield Shield career — 6,096 runs at 70.06, 21 hundreds for NSW — was statistically more successful than his Test record. He died in 1972 having coached the NSW colts for 25 years.

“If Kippax had been an Englishman, he would have been one of the great Test batsmen. As an Australian he was unfortunate to play in the era of the others.”

Kippax played until 1937 in Sheffield Shield and coached the NSW colts after retirement. He was widely regarded by Australian cricketers of the 1920s and 1930s as the most beautiful batsman of his era — a higher reputation than his Test record alone would explain.