Barry Pryer

Barry James Keith Pryer (1 February 1925 – 15 October 2007) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1946 and 1950, mostly for Kent County Cricket Club and Cambridge University. He was born in Plumstead and died in Perth, Western Australia.[1]

Barry Pryer
Personal information
Full nameBarry James Keith Pryer
Born(1925-02-01)1 February 1925
Plumstead, London, England
Died15 October 2007(2007-10-15) (aged 82)
Perth, Western Australia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg-spin
RoleBowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1947–1949Kent
1948–1949Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 27
Runs scored 252
Batting average 9.33
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 75*
Balls bowled 3745
Wickets 48
Bowling average 39.33
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 4/25
Catches/stumpings 9/–
Source: Cricinfo, 9 February 2019

Pryer attended the City of London School and served in the Fleet Air Arm before going up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2][3] A leg-spin bowler and lower-order batsman, he took his best bowling figures of 4 for 25 on his first-class debut for Combined Services against Surrey in 1946.[4] In Cambridge's match against Worcestershire in 1949 he had match figures of 57–19–133–7.[5] His highest score was 75 not out for Cambridge against Middlesex in 1948, when he and Richard Pearsall added an unbeaten 149 in 90 minutes for the ninth wicket.[6]

Pryer and his wife Faye spent some years in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Iraq, where he worked as a lawyer for the Iraq Petroleum Group of Companies in Baghdad.[7] He moved to Australia after his retirement.[3]

References
  1. Barry Pryer, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  2. Wisden 1949, p. 274.
  3. "Deaths" (PDF). St Catharine's Society Magazine: 90. 2008.
  4. Wisden 1947, p. 432.
  5. "Worcestershire v Cambridge University 1949". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  6. Wisden 1949, p. 592.
  7. "Notices and Reports" (PDF). St Catharine's Society Magazine: 9. September 1971.


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