john inverarity Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
john inverarity is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Robert John Inverarity
Born
January 31, 1944, Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia
Age
79 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 6 | - | - | - |
Inn | 11 | - | - | - |
Runs | 174 | - | - | - |
Avg | 17.4 | - | - | - |
SR | 28.34 | - | - | - |
HS | 56 | - | - | - |
NO | 1 | - | - | - |
100s | 0 | - | - | - |
50s | 1 | - | - | - |
4s | 20 | - | - | - |
6s | 0 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 6 | - | - | - |
Inn | 5 | - | - | - |
Balls | 372 | - | - | - |
Runs | 93 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 4 | - | - | - |
BBI | 26 / 3 | - | - | - |
BBM | 26 / 3 | - | - | - |
Eco | 1.5 | - | - | - |
Avg | 23.25 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- M Inverarity
- Australia
- South Australia
- Western Australia
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Inverarity did stage a comeback, four years later, more as a left-arm spinner than the batsman he was picked on debut. The bowling did come off decently but he didn't remain in the side for long. Meanwhile, he kept churning out solid performances in Shield cricket and his captaincy levels spiked with a plethora of titles being added over they years. Apart from cricket, teaching was his big passion and hence, it wasn't surprising when he took that up as a profession towards the fag end of his cricketing career. He shifted base to South Australia for the same but the cricket also continued, as did the stupendous success as player and captain, of which his new team were the latest beneficiaries. After a durable cricketing career, he quit from the sport after the 1984-85 season.
After retiring as a player, Inverarity's full time focus went towards teaching and also, coaching budding cricketers. Being a wise man with astute leadership qualities, it wasn't a surprise that he got many offers, even in the county circuit where he was in charge of Kent and later, Warwickshire. After years of serving as a tutor and a cricket coach, his career went to another level in 2011 when he was appointed as the chairman of Australia's national panel of selectors. He served in the coveted post for a period of three years before stepping down from the role in 2014. Inverarity was succeeded by Rod Marsh who also performed admirably before resigning in 2016. Despite his brief international career, Inverarity is a renowned and respected name in the Australian cricketing fraternity.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Almost throughout his long career John Inverarity was a good batsman, but a great captain and theorist, and Australian Test history might be significantly different if Inverarity had been entrusted with the national captaincy during the World Series Cricket schism. Instead the armband passed from 40-year-old Bob Simpson to the rookie Graham Yallop. Mike Brearley's England slaughtered Yallop's lambs 5-1, and many international careers were ended before they should have begun. Yallop himself, a potentially great batsman, never quite recovered. Meanwhile Inverarity, instead of locking intellectual horns with Brearley, was quietly racking up runs and trophies for Western Australia - in five years as captain he won the Sheffield Shield four times. When schoolteaching took him from Perth to Adelaide he just kept on playing, being seen as something of a freak in Australian first-class cricket as he continued, grey-haired and ghostly, into his forties. South Australia duly won the Shield in 1981-82, with Inverarity contributing 348 runs and 30 wickets. By the time he finally retired, in 1985, he had crept past Don Bradman's Shield-record run-aggregate. A brief Test career was long over by then - six matches, the first in 1968 as an opening batsman (he was the last man winkled out by Derek Underwood in that year's Oval epic), and the last in 1972, by which time his slow left-arm bowling was being increasingly used. A couple of inspirational stints as Kent's coach briefly interrupted his career as a headmaster, and he resumed his coaching with Warwickshire in 2004. Inverarity's father was a first-class cricketer too, and his daughter Alison was an Olympic high-jumper.
In 2011, Inverarity was appointed as Cricket Australia's full-time national selector, following the Australian Team Performance Review that was implemented in the aftermath of that year's Ashes debacle.
Steven Lynch