REDPATH, Ian Ritchie MBE
Ian Redpath (Cricket, 1952).
Ian Redpath, Australian test cricketer played in sixty-seven tests as a member of the Australian Test Cricket Team.
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Ian Redpath.
He operated Redpath’s Antiques in Shannon Rd, Newtown, Geelong. He first attended Newtown State School before entering the Geelong College in 1953. His sporting abilities quickly rose to the fore and he demonstrated excellence at the School in Athletics, Cricket, Tennis and Football. He was a member of the Athletics Team in 1957, captaining it in 1958; the 1st Cricket XI from 1956 to 1958, captaining the team in 1958; a member of the 1st Football Team in 1957 and its Vice-Captain in 1958 as well as winning the Boys’ Open Singles Tennis Championship of the School in 1958. He won the T S Hawkes Prize in both 1955 and 1958. This outstanding all-round ability led to his award of the W H Hill Memorial Prize in 1958. He was a member of Shannon House. His father Graham Ritchie Redpath (1912-1965) OGC 1926-1928 and brothers Alan Graham and Robert John Redpath all attended the School as well.
Ian Redpath’s cricket career was long and productive scoring 4,737 runs at an average of 43.46. He was known as a dependable right-hand batsman and an excellent slips fieldsman, first playing for the South Melbourne Club in 1959 and then in 1961 gaining selection for Victoria. He was selected in his first Test to play South Africa on New Year’s Day 1964 when he and Bill Lawry struck one of the highest opening test partnerships then known. He played in the first One Day International between Australia and England on 5 January, 1971. He retired from senior cricket after the 1976 season, ironically hitting his first ‘six in his second last Test and demonstrating his peak ability, scoring centuries in both his last two Tests.
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Ian Redpath.
At a 25 year celebration of his retirement from Test Cricket at which his mother was present he commented that it was only the second time that she had attended a cricket game or event.
'Mum saw me bat once when I was at College – she chewed the fingers out of her gloves and never saw another match after that.' Although known principally as a cricket player Ian Redpath was also a versatile footballer playing for the Geelong Amateur Footballers, winning selection as both an All-Australian and All-Australian Amateur. In 1975, he was made a Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to cricket.
Ian Redpath was inducted into the Old Geelong Collegians' Association (OGCA) Notables Gallery at Geelong College in 2011.