George Tribe

For the New Zealand politician, see George Henry Tribe.

George Tribe

Personal information

Full name

George Edward Tribe

Born

4 October 1920
Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

Died

5 April 2009 (aged 88)

Height

5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Batting style

Left-hand

Bowling style

Left-arm chinaman

Role

Bowler

International information

National side

Australia

Test debut (cap 172)

29 November 1946 v England

Last Test

28 February 1947 v England

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1951–59

Northamptonshire

1945–47

Victoria

Career statistics

Competition	Test	FC
Matches	3	308
Runs scored	35	10,177
Batting average	17.50	27.35
100s/50s	0/0	7/48
Top score	25*	136*
Balls bowled	760	63,651
Wickets	2	1,378
Bowling average	165.00	20.55
5 wickets in innings	0	93
10 wickets in match	0	23
Best bowling	2/48	9/43
Catches/stumpings	0/–	242/–

Source: CricketArchive, 8 April 2009

George Edward Tribe (born 4 October 1920, Yarraville, Victoria,^[1] died 5 April 2009, Burwood, Victoria) was an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1946 to 1947, as well as an Australian rules footballer with the Footscray Football Club in the VFL.

Cricket career

Tribe played with great success for Victoria immediately after the Second World War, taking 86 wickets at 19.25 in just 13 games and playing in three Tests under Donald Bradman in the 1946-47 Ashes series. An all-rounder, he bowled slow left-arm orthodox and chinaman and batted doggedly as a left-hander, mostly at number six or seven, compiling 7 centuries in his first class career. Despite his prolific record in first-class cricket, he was unsuccessful during the series against England and was dropped from the national team. In the Fifth Test in Sydney Ray Lindwall took 109/9, but thought that Tribe had bowled better, but with no luck to return 153/0.^[2]

After failing to achieve further recognition in Australia, Tribe moved to the Lancashire League in 1947. He joined Milnrow in the Central Lancashire League and took 136 scalps in his first season. He followed that performance with a record 148 wickets the following year and 150 in 1950, when he moved to Rawtenstall for two seasons. Although he never toured with Australia he took 99 wickets on a Commonwealth tour of India in 1949/50. An engineer by trade, he joined a Northamptonshire based firm in 1951 and his prolific record saw Northamptonshire offer him terms for that season. He proved an immediate success and played for the county for nine seasons, achieving "the double" of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in seven of those seasons. His value to Northamptonshire as the county moved from being the perpetual back-markers to challenge seriously for the County Championship was immense. He was awarded his benefit in 1956.

As of 2007, Tribe still holds the Northamptonshire record for best bowling in a first-class match, returning figures of 15-31 (made up of 7-22 and 8-9) against Yorkshire in 1958.^[3] He took a record 175 wickets for the county in 1955.

He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1955. At the time of his death he was the second oldest Australian Test cricketer and the eleventh oldest overall.

Australian rules career

In 1940 Tribe made his debut with the Footscray Football Club in the then-Victorian Football League. He played as a forward and was considered to be a dangerous goalkicker. He went on to play 66 games and kick 80 goals for Footscray before he playing his last game in 1946. He then returned to cricket with the Lancashire League in England.^[4]

Footnotes

↑ According to his Cricinfo profile, despite the fact that he was known as George Edward Tribe, the name George James Tribe was entered on his birth certificate.
↑ pp43-44, Ray Lindwall, Flying Stumps, Marlin Books, 1954
↑ "Most Wickets in a Match for Northamptonshire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
↑ His brother Tom also played 101 games of football for Footscray.

External links

First-class cricket all-rounders who achieved the English season double five times

W Rhodes 16 G H Hirst 14 V W C Jupp 10 W E Astill 9 M W Tate 8 + 1 T E Bailey 8 W G Grace 8 M S Nichols 8 A E Relf 8 F A Tarrant 8 F J Titmus 8 F E Woolley 8 G E Tribe 7 P G H Fender 6 R Illingworth 6 James Langridge 6 J W H T Douglas 5 J W Hearne 5 A S Kennedy 5 J A Newman 5 Note: Maurice Tate achieved an additional double in the 1926–27 Indian season

Australian first-class cricket season leading wicket-takers (1900–01 to 1949–50)

1900–01: Saunders/Travers 1901–02: Braund 1902–03: Saunders 1903–04: Rhodes 1904–05: Collins 1905–06: Garnsey 1906–07: Garnsey 1907–08: Crawford/Saunders 1908–09: O'Connor 1909–10: Saunders 1910–11: Whitty 1911–12: Foster 1912–13: Massie 1913–14: Kelleway 1914–15: Ironmonger 1915–16: – 1916–17: – 1917–18: – 1918–19: McDonald 1919–20: Hendry 1920–21: Mailey 1921–22: McDonald 1922–23: Mailey 1923–24: Hartkopf/Williams 1924–25: Tate 1925–26: Grimmett 1926–27: Williams 1927–28: Grimmett 1928–29: Grimmett 1929–30: Grimmett 1930–31: Grimmett 1931–32: Grimmett 1932–33: O'Reilly 1933–34: Grimmett 1934–35: Fleetwood-Smith 1935–36: Ward 1936–37: Fleetwood-Smith/Ward 1937–38: Fleetwood-Smith/O'Reilly 1938–39: Fleetwood-Smith 1939–40: Grimmett 1940–41: O'Reilly 1941–42: O'Reilly 1942–43: – 1943–44: – 1944–45: – 1945–46: Tribe 1946–47: Wright 1947–48: Mankad 1948–49: Johnson

Leading run-scorers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards Leading wicket-takers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards

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