Maurice Barker (cricketer)
Maurice Percy Barker (4 February 1917 – 6 September 2000) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire in five matches in 1946.[1] He was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He was born at Leamington Spa in Warwickshire and died at Hereford.
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Full name | Maurice Percy Barker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England | 4 February 1917||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 6 September 2000 83) Hereford, Herefordshire, England | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Opening bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1946 | Warwickshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 18 May 1946 Warwickshire v Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 22 August 1946 Warwickshire v Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 6 March 2014 |
Barker played some matches for Warwickshire's Club and Ground team against club sides in the 1930s, and also appeared in wartime matches for the British Empire XI against club sides.[2] But his first-class cricket career was restricted by his career in the police to a handful of matches in the 1946 season when, according to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, he "showed promise" as a 6 ft 4in fast bowler.[3] In the match against Yorkshire in June 1946, with both sides weakened by absences for the Test Trial match, he took seven wickets for 68 runs in Yorkshire's only innings.[4] For the 1947 season, Warwickshire recruited the New Zealand fast bowler Tom Pritchard and although Barker played a few times for the second eleven in that season, he did not appear again in first-class cricket.
References
- "Player Profile: Maurice Barker". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- "Miscellaneous Matches Played by Maurice Barker". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- "Warwickshire in 1946". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1947 ed.). Wisden. p. 452.
- "Scorecard: Warwickshire v Yorkshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 12 June 1946. Retrieved 4 March 2014.