Bert Ironmonger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian cricketer
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Place of Birth: Pine Mountain, Queensland, Australia
About Bert Ironmonger
- 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.He died aged 89 in St Kilda, Melbourne.
- A grandstand at the Junction Oval in St Kilda bears his name. 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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