Bert Ironmonger
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| Born | (1882-04-07)April 7, 1882 Pine Mountain, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | May 31, 1971(1971-05-31) (aged 89) St Kilda, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Herbert "Bert" Ironmonger (7 April 1882 – 31 May 1971) was a Queensland, Victorian and Australian cricketer.
He was born in Pine Mountain, Queensland; the youngest of ten children of a farmer. As a child, he lost the forefinger of his left hand (his bowling hand) in an industrial accident.[1]
He died aged 89 in St Kilda, Melbourne. A grandstand at the Junction Oval in St Kilda bears his name.
A graph showing Ironmonger's Test career bowling statistics and how they varied over time.
He only made his first-class debut for Queensland at the age of 27, moving to Victoria in 1914, and his Test debut came at 46. He played Test cricket until the age of 50, and first-class cricket until the age of 53. He is the fourth-oldest Test debutant and the second-oldest Test player, records which are unlikely to be broken.
Unsurprisingly because of his age, his Test career spanned only 14 matches, during which he took 74 wickets at an average of 17.97. In that time though he achieved some outstanding results.
- A hat-trick against MCC in 1924–25
- 11 wickets for 79 runs against the West Indies in Melbourne in 1930–31
- 9 wickets for 89 runs against South Africa in Brisbane in 1931–32
- 11 wickets for 24 against South Africa in Melbourne in 1931–32
- He took a total of 31 wickets in the 1931–32 South African series
- Bert Ironmonger also set the record for becoming the oldest Test cricketer to take his maiden five-wicket haul as well as 6fer, 7fer in a Test innings at the age of 48 years and 312 days.[2] He was also the oldest-ever Test cricketer to take five-wicket haul as well as a 6fer in an innings of a Test match at the age of 49 years and 311 days.[3] He, too, set the record for becoming the oldest Test cricketer to take 10 wickets in a Test match at the age of 49 years and 311 days.[4]
See also
- List of Victoria first-class cricketers
References
^ "Immovable". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
^ "Records | Test matches | Bowling records | Oldest player to take a maiden five-wickets-in-an-innings | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
^ "Records | Test matches | Bowling records | Oldest player to take five-wickets-in-an-innings | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
^ "Records | Test matches | Bowling records | Oldest player to take ten-wickets-in-a-match | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
External links
Media related to Bert Ironmonger at Wikimedia Commons
Bert Ironmonger at ESPNcricinfo
Tough in life and cricket from Cricinfo
First-class matches played by Bert Ironmonger from CricketArchive
Oldest Test debutants from Cricinfo
Oldest Test players from Cricinfo
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