Ken Barrington
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| Ken Barrington England (Eng) | ||
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | Leg break | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 82 | 533 |
| Runs scored | 6806 | 31714 |
| Batting average | 58.67 | 45.63 |
| 100s/50s | 20/35 | 76/170 |
| Top score | 256 | 256 |
| Balls bowled | 2715 | 8905 |
| Wickets | 29 | 273 |
| Bowling average | 44.82 | 32.61 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 8 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | 3/4 | 7/40 |
| Catches/stumpings | 58/0 | 514/0 |
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Test debut: 9 June, 1955 | ||
Kenneth Frank Barrington, generally known as Ken or Kenny, was an English cricketer who played for the English Test team and Surrey County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and an occasional leg break bowler. He was born in Reading, Berkshire on 24 November 1930 and died of a heart attack in Barbados on 14 March 1981, whilst helping England. Sir Ian Botham was present.
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[edit] Domestic career
Barrington began his first class career with Surrey in 1953 and retired due to health problems in 1968. He scored 1,000 runs in a season twelve times and reached 2,000 runs three times. He made seventy six first class centuries, with a highest score of 256 (which he made in a Test match against Australia at Old Trafford in 1964) and a total of 31,714 first class runs at an average of 45.63. He also took 273 first class wickets at an average of 32.61.
[edit] International career
Barrington's Test career ran from 1955 to 1968. He played 82 matches and scored 6,806 runs at an average of 58.67, which was notably better than his overall first class average, and his average in 23 Tests against Australia was better still, at 63.96. However, he was an accumulator rather than an aggressive strokemaker, and he was sometimes accused of playing excessively slowly, on one occasion being dropped immediately after scoring a century. He finished his career with 20 Test centuries.
[edit] Later career
After the end of his playing career Ken Barrington became a Test selector and a manager of English touring teams. He died suddenly of a heart attack during England's tour to the West Indies in 1980-81.
[edit] Most reliable English batsman of the post-War era
Ken Barrington, master of unintended malapropisms, was one of the greatest batsmen to play for England in the post-War era. His average was lower only than Herbert Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire and England opener.
Less highly rated than Peter May, Colin Cowdrey and Ted Dexter, he constantly outscored them. This is borne out by their respective test averages: PBH May - 46.77, MC Cowdrey - 44.06, ER Dexter - 47.89, KF Barrington - 58.67.
He was a simple, modest man who wore his heart on his sleeve. He served English cricket loyally for decades as an active player and then as part of the team management. The memory of Kenny Barrington endures in the hearts of cricket lovers, for his batsmanship, for his courage, for his patience, determination and unselfish approach to cricket and to life. A team man to the core, Barrington is loved by all those who played with and against him. This is his lasting legacy.
Barrington was a well-built man of medium height. His sound technique and patience meant that he was the one English batsman whom opposition bowlers wanted to see the back of.
Barrington started off as stroke maker and powerful hitter but soon realised that if he wanted to serve his country well, he would have to change his attacking style. So he turned into a calm and composed batsman. He was the most consistent and prolific of all Post-War English batsmen, in a class of his own against difficult opposition.
| English batsman with a Test batting average over 50 |
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| Ken Barrington | Denis Compton | Wally Hammond | Jack Hobbs | Len Hutton | Eddie Paynter | Kevin Pietersen | Herbert Sutcliffe | Ernest Tyldesley |
[edit] Kenneth Frank Barrington career highlights
Full name: Kenneth Frank Barrington
Born: November 24, 1930, Reading, Berkshire, UK
Died: March 14, 1981, Needham's Point, Bridgetown, Barbados (aged 50 years 110 days)
Major teams: England, Surrey
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Leg-break
Batting and fielding averages
Mat Innings NO Runs HS Average 100 50 6s Ct St
Tests 82 131 15 6806 256 58.67 20 35 27 58 0
First-class 533 831 136 31714 256 45.63 76 170 514 0 List A 14 14 2 399 70* 33.25 0 3 5 0
Bowling averages
Mat Inningss Balls Runs Wickets BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 82 50 2715 1300 29 3/4 5/111 44.82 2.87 93.6 0 0 0
First-class 533 17301 8905 273 7/40 32.61 3.08 63.3 8 0 List A 14 108 132 4 3/41 3/41 33.00 7.33 27.0 0 0 0
[edit] Career honours
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1960
Walter Lawrence Trophy 1966
