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His first fleeting brush with Test cricket came in when he took a catch to dismiss Hassett, who was playing in a College Old Boys team in the annual match against the firsts. Redpath's bigger break came when Bob Price, a committee member for influential grade club South Melbourne, saw the wiry right-hander score a half-century for Geelong College in and convinced the teenager to try his luck in the bigger city.
He made his way from third grade to the firsts at South, and was selected for Victoria's Sheffield Shield game against South Australia either side of new year in where he scored 2 and 7 dismissed by West Indies great Garfield Sobers after which he was promptly dropped. Fortune smiled when he was recalled for a Shield match against Test-strength New South Wales the following summer, in which rival fast bowler Alan Davidson broke down after just four overs and Redpath was left to combat the Blues' spinners.
Having reached 50 in each of his next three Shield appearances, out of nowhere he peeled off a remarkable against a Queensland attack led by legendary Caribbean quick Wes Hall and suddenly found himself in Test reckoning. Within a year he was named for the second Test of the summer against South Africa where his maiden innings yielded 97 in an opening stand of alongside Victoria teammate Bill Lawry, and an international career seemingly beckoned.
However, he was axed for the following Test to allow for the return of Norm O'Neill and his revolving door of national selection had begun. Redpath also opted not to accept the admittedly meagre match payments being offered to players in the s in order to ensure he could retain his status as an amateur footballer, a privilege he was forced to surrender when selected for the Ashes tour.
Over ensuing years, Redpath's inability to recapture the productivity of his Test debut meant he could not secure a regular berth in the Test team despite impressing on the tour to South Africa when rival skipper Trevor Goddard described his batting as being "the most technically perfect in the world". A score of 92 in the fourth Ashes Test of at Leeds provided the second-most significant highlight of that tour after meeting his future wife, Christine, but it was the following home series against West Indies that proved pivotal.
In the second innings of the fourth Test at Adelaide Oval, Redpath was run out by firebrand West Indies quick Charlie Griffiths when backing up too far at the non-striker's end, without the then-traditional warning from the bowler. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the Victorian opener who, according to Greg Chappell, could kill to play for Australia.
He was the last amateur of Australian cricket and perhaps the first hipster. He sported the Ned Kelly beard way before it became fashionable. He gave Slam Poetry readings and still paints watercolours. He rode vintage track bikes before they became vintage. He ran an antiques business. And with long sideburns and George Harrison looks, he was an instant hit with the ladies.
In spite of all this, he was one of the dourest customers at the wicket. Greg Chappell once said that Ian Redpath would kill to get into the Australian team. And once he was in, he was perhaps the most difficult Australian batsman to dislodge. Greg Chappell remembers his own Test debut. I came to the wicket with Australia reeling at for five to join Redders [Redpath], who had watched three quick wickets fall at the other end.
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The English left me largely untouched while zeroing in on Redders— just about the toughest batsman to dislodge. They figured if they got him the tail would capitulate. John Snow put all his energy into trapping Redders down at his end and bombarding him. They picked the wrong bloke. Redpath scored in that innings, adding with Chappell.
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Ian Redpath, stoic Australian Test opener and hall of fame ...: Ian Ritchie Redpath MBE (– 1 December ) was an Australian international cricketer who played in 66 Test matches and five One Day Internationals between and Greg Chappell said he was one of only two players he knew who would kill to get into the Australian Test team, the other being Rod Marsh.
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