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Name:
Alan Theodore Barber

Born:
June 17, 1905, Ecclesall, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Died: March 10, 1985 (Aged 79)

Role:
Right-hand bat

County Debut:
1927

County Cap:
1930

STATISTICS

BATTING AND FIELDING AVERAGES

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	Ct	St
First-class	70	100	3	2261	119	23.30	2	13	52	0

BOWLING AVERAGES

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
First-class	70	6	0	0	-	-	-	0.00	-	0	0	0

PROFILE

Barber played in 27 matches for Oxford University between 1927 and 1929 and in 42 games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1929 to 1930. He also featured for one game in Lord Hawke's XI. He captained Oxford University and Yorkshire in 1930 and in the same year was awarded his county cap.

He was a double blue at Oxford and was a skilled player of Eton Fives, winning the Kinnaird Cup twice with his fellow Salopian, Desmond Backhouse, a leading squash player.

He scored two centuries - 119 against Nottinghamshire for Oxford and an even hundred opening the batting in a game Yorkshire played in 1929 against an England XI.

Although he captained Yorkshire for just one season the cricket writer E.M. Wellings valued his captaincy skills. He wrote that Barber had, 'Brought order to a then somewhat awkward Yorkshire squad' and laid the foundations for Yorkshire's future success under Frank Greenwood and Brian Sellers.

Barber left the first class game of cricket in his mid twenties to pursue a career in teaching, rising to become headmaster of Ludgrove prep school in Berkshire.

He died on the 10 March 1985 at Ludgrove in Wokingham, Berkshire.