Herb McGirr

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Herb McGirr New Zealand (NZ)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	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/-
Test debut: 14 February 1930 Last Test: 21 February 1930 Source: Cricinfo

Herbert Mendelson McGirr (born November 5, 1891, Wellington, died April 14, 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].