Herb McGirr
| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | New Zealand | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 2 | 88 | ||
| Runs scored | 51 | 3992 | ||
| Batting average | 51.00 | 28.71 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | 5/23 | ||
| Top score | 51 | 141 | ||
| Balls bowled | 180 | 14973 | ||
| Wickets | 1 | 239 | ||
| Bowling average | 115.00 | 27.49 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 9 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 1 | ||
| Best bowling | 1/65 | 7/45 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 0/- | 54/- | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, | ||||
Herbert Mendelson McGirr (5 November 1891, Wellington – 14 April 1964, Nelson) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in two Tests in 1930.
An all-rounder who had almost 20 years of first-class cricket with Wellington, McGirr was a middle or lower order batsman who hit the ball hard and a steady medium-paced bowler. He toured England with the New Zealand cricket team under Tom Lowry in 1927, and scored more than 700 runs and took 49 wickets. No Tests were played on that tour.
In the 1929-30 season, when the MCC side under Harold Gilligan played the first Tests against New Zealand, McGirr featured in only the third and fourth Tests, both at Eden Park, Auckland. The third Test was ruined by rain; McGirr did not bat and took no wickets. The fourth, arranged hastily to compensate for the washout, fared little better in terms of weather, but McGirr scored a half-century and took his only Test wicket, that of Stan Nichols.
McGirr's obituary in Wisden in 1965 records that he played club cricket until he was 67, and gave up then only because "he slipped when taking in the milk" the day after scoring 70[1].
[edit] References
- ^ Wisden 1965, page 969.
