Cricket: The day of December 1 is no less than a shock for the cricket world, especially for Australian cricket, this day is even worse. Their legendary batsman passed away yesterday at the age of 83. Cricket Australia has given this information in the press release.
On the basis of his brilliant batting, he had also scored more than 15 thousand runs in cricket. But the news of his demise has left the entire cricket world in shock.
Cricket world mourns the death of Ian Redpath
Actually, this player is none other than Australia's legendary batsman Ian Redpath. Redpath has played many important innings in his long cricket career. Redpath has played cricket for Australia for almost 12 years in which he played 66 Test matches and in his 120 innings he scored 4737 runs at an average of 43.45. In which he scored 8 centuries and 31 half-centuries. His highest score in the test was 171 runs.
Whereas he has also played ODI matches for Australia, in which he scored 46 runs in 5 innings at an average of 9.20 and strike rate of 68.65. His highest score in ODI was 24 runs. Redpath also became the vice-captain of Australia in which he missed by 3 runs from scoring a century in the very first match as vice-captain, he played a valuable inning of 97 runs in that innings. Redpath scored his first century in 1969 against West Indies.
This has been Redpath's cricket career
Redpath played 226 matches in first class cricket and scored 14993 runs in 391 innings at an average of 41.99. In that he scored 32 centuries and 84 half-centuries. His highest score in first class was 261 runs. Let us tell you that Redpath had come back from retirement to play the World Series. But the injury he suffered during the match ended his career forever.
After that he took charge as a coach in Victoria and Geelong Cricket Club. Redpath was also inducted into the Australia Hall of Fame in the year 2023. He became the 61st player to be included in this list.
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