Bert Tobin
{{short description|Australian cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Use Australian English|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Bert Tobin
| image = File:BJ Tobin Recorder (Port Pirie), 5 February 1934.png
| imagesize = 180px
| caption =
| country = Australia
| fullname = Bertrandt Joseph Tobin
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|11|11|df=yes}}
| birth_place = North Adelaide, South Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|10|19|1910|11|11|df=yes}}
| death_place = Adelaide, South Australia
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium
| role = All-rounder
| heightft = 6
| heightinch = 2
| family =
| club1 = South Australia
| year1 = 1930-31 to 1930-34
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 26
| runs1 = 722
| bat avg1 = 16.04
| 100s/50s1 = 0/4
| top score1 = 61
| deliveries1 = 3667
| wickets1 = 51
| bowl avg1 = 39.03
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 4/31
| catches/stumpings1 = 17/0
| date = 27 November 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7996.html Cricinfo
}}
Bertrandt Joseph Tobin (11 November 1910 – 19 October 1969) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for South Australia from 1930 to 1935.
Life and career
The son of a railway official, Bert Tobin lived in North Adelaide. He was educated at Rostrevor College in Adelaide from 1925 to 1928, boarding in his final two years. He was a prominent member of the school's cricket and football teams.{{cite web | url = https://www.rostrevor.sa.edu.au/articles/bert-tobin--28.html| title = Bert Tobin '28| publisher = Rostrevor College | access-date =27 November 2019}} He won the South Australian Junior Golf Championship in 1928.
A hard-hitting batsman in the middle or lower order and a fast-medium opening bowler, Tobin stood six feet two inches tall.{{cite news | work= Sporting Globe| date=8 February 1933 | page=10| title= Bert Tobin: Australia's New Test Player| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/183030761}} He made his first-class debut for South Australia in the 1930–31 season just before his 20th birthday. He took his best first-class figures of 4 for 31 against Victoria in the Sheffield Shield in November 1932, when he and Tim Wall dismissed Victoria for 92 and South Australia won by three wickets.{{cite web |url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1932-33/AUS_LOCAL/SS/SOA_VIC_SS_25-29NOV1932.html| title = South Australia v Victoria 1932-33| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date =27 November 2019}} He made his highest first-class score of 61 in the next match, against New South Wales.{{cite web |url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1932-33/AUS_LOCAL/SS/SOA_NSW_SS_16-20DEC1932.html| title = South Australia v New South Wales 1932-33| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date =27 November 2019}}
Despite his good form it was a surprise when he was selected in the Australian team for the Fourth Test against England later that season, as his overall achievements had been moderate: "a useful rather than a match-winning figure in South Australian cricket".{{cite news | work= Chronicle| date=2 February 1933 | page=40| title= Team for Fourth Test| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/90892869}} He probably owed his selection to his ability to bowl bouncers.The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 534. In the event he was made twelfth man and was not selected for Australia again.{{cite web |last=Williamson|first=Martin|url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7996.html| title = Bert Tobin| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date =27 November 2019}}
During his South Australian career Tobin worked in the Adelaide sports store part-owned by the cricketer Philip Lee. He left Australia in 1935 to play as a professional for Rishton in the Lancashire League. He remained in the UK, marrying a rich woman and playing club cricket in Scotland.David Frith, Bodyline Autopsy, ABC Books, Sydney, 2002, p. 274.{{cite news | work= The Herald | date=10 November 1949 | page=25 | title= Harry Hopman's Sports Talk| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244137565}} After two decades abroad he returned to Australia, coaching cricket in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon and in Alice Springs.
References
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External links
- {{cricinfo|id=7996}}
- [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/10/10132/10132.html Bert Tobin] at CricketArchive
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Category:People educated at Rostrevor College
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:South Australia cricketers
Category:Cricketers from Adelaide