James Iremonger

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James 'Jimmy' Iremonger (5 March 1876 - 25 March 1956) was an English cricketer. Born in Norton, Yorkshire, he played 334 first-class matches for Nottinghamshire between 1899 and 1914, scoring 16,622 runs at 35.06 and taking 619 wickets with his right-arm medium-pace at 22.98. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1903.

Though Iremonger's career figures would seem to indicate an all-rounder, he was not one in the conventional sense of the term. In his early years in the game, he was much more a batsman than a bowler, taking just 64 wickets in his first nine seasons but in 1904 making 1,983 runs with an average above 60, including his highest score of 272 against Kent. However, from 1908 onwards this changed completely, and he achieved a batting average of above 30 only twice in the seven seasons until World War I forced his retirement from the game in 1914, yet took 50 or more wickets in all but one year, claiming 101 scalps in 1911.

When county cricket resumed after the war, Iremonger did not resume his first-class career, but he did play one match for Notts' Second XI in 1927, when he was 51 years old. He died at the age of 80 in Nottingham.

James also played football for Nottingham Forest, and earned 2 caps for England.

James's brother Albert Iremonger, the Notts County F.C. goalkeeper, also played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire.