Ian Ritchie Redpath MBE was an Australian international cricketer who played in 66 Test matches and five One Day Internationals between 1964 and 1976.
21 Facts About Ian Redpath
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Opening the batting with Bill Lawry, the pair added 219 before Ian Redpath was bowled on 97.
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Ian Redpath declined the match fee in his early Tests in order not to jeopardise his Australian rules football career in the Victorian Amateur Football Association, where he played for Geelong Amateurs and was a four-time club best and fairest winner.
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Ian Redpath's playing permit was revoked when he eventually accepted a match fee for the 1964 Ashes series, but it was restored by the VAFA 60 years later in August 2024.
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Originally a sweet striker of the ball, Ian Redpath turned into something of a stonewaller, with impressive powers of concentration and a sound technique.
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Ian Redpath made a point of not playing at anything he didn't have to and ducked or swayed away from the shorter deliveries.
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In that match, Ian Redpath made his highest Test score of 171 before he was caught and bowled by Ray Illingworth.
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Ian Redpath made 497 runs in the series and the England fast bowler John Snow wrote "I liked bowling to him least of all" and added that he was "a real nuisance batsman".
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Ian Redpath was one of the few to survive that disastrous tour of South Africa with a reputation intact, averaging 47.17 in the four Tests.
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An outstanding fieldsman in the slips or at short leg, Ian Redpath took 83 Test catches.
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Ian Redpath's bowling was undistinguished; he was once called for throwing against Glamorgan in 1964.
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Ian Redpath retired from Test cricket in order to devote himself full-time to proprietorship of an antique business in Geelong.
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Ian Redpath had already declined the 1975 Ashes tour to tend to this neglected enterprise.
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Packer declared that Ian Redpath would be paid for the duration.
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Ian Redpath was recalled for international duties once more, playing two supertests at the age of 37.
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Ian Redpath remains among Victoria's top ten run-makers of all time.
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Years after his WSC days, Redpath was accepted back into the Victorian fold and appointed the coach of Victoria.
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Ian Redpath was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1975 Birthday Honours for services to cricket.
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Ian Redpath wrote his cricketing memoirs, Always Reddy, with Neill Phillipson in 1976.
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When Ian Redpath retired from the antique business, he remained active at the Geelong Cricket Club.
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In January 2023, Redpath was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.