Team india is on australia tour. The indian team captained by rohit sharma is playing a warm-up match in Canberra. Meanwhile, bad news has come out for australia cricket. Former cricketer Ian Redpath has passed away. He was 83 years old. Ian has performed brilliantly on many occasions for Australia. He played 66 Test matches during his career. He has also played 5 ODI matches.
Redpath's career has been quite memorable. He made his Test debut against South Africa. Redpath missed out on scoring a century in this match. He played an innings of 97 runs. His international cricket career lasted from 1964 to 1976. Redpath played the last Test against west indies in 1996. At the same time, the last ODI match was played against west indies in 1975.
Actually Team india is currently in Canberra. Here a warm-up match is being played between prime minister XI and India. During this match, the news of Ian Redpath's death came. australia cricket is in mourning due to this. If we talk about the warm-up match, prime minister XI scored 240 runs while batting first. During this, Harshit Rana took 4 wickets for India. While akash Deep took 2 wickets. Now the indian team is batting.
Let us tell you that Ian Redpath played a total of 66 Test matches for Australia. During this, he scored 8 centuries and 31 half-centuries. He scored 4737 runs in this format. Ian Redpath also played 5 ODI matches. However, he could not do anything special in it. He has a great record in domestic cricket. Redpath scored 14993 runs in 226 first class matches. During this, he scored 32 centuries and 84 half-centuries. He also had a good record in List A.
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