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Sydney Barnes
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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Right arm medium fast (RMF)
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27
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242
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806
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0/0
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38
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7873
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189
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1643
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24
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7
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9/103
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12/0
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133
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1573
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1278
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0/2
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93
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31527
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719
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1709
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68
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18
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9/103
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72/0
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13 December
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1901
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18 February
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1914
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Sydney Francis Barnes was born on
April 19 1873 in
Smethwick ,
Staffordshire . He was the second of five children and worked for the same company in
Birmingham for 63 years. He briefly played
County Cricket for
Lancashire in 1902 and 1903, meeting with only moderate success by his own standards despite several superb performances. However, after a contractual dispute near the end of 1903, Barnes played no more first-class county cricket, instead playing for
Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Championship and the Lancashire League. His record for
Staffordshire was 1441 wickets at a cost of 8.15 runs per wicket, and his average in the Lancashire League was even lower.
Barnes was a
Wisden Cricketer Of The Year in 1910. His 49 wickets against
South Africa in 1913-14 is still the record for any bowler in a
Test Series , although he only played in four Tests. In all, he took 189 Test wickets; his average of 16.43 and
Strike Rate of 41.65 are the second lowest (after the incredible 10.75 and 34.11 of
George Lohmann ) of any bowler who has taken at least 75 Test wickets.
After taking eight wickets for the Players in the 1914
Gentlemen V Players , it was to be 13 years before Barnes again played first-class cricket, in the first of nine appearances for
Wales between 1927 and 1930. He took 49 first-class wickets for Wales, including 7-51 and 5-67 in an eight-wicket triumph over the
West Indians in 1928. He also made two first-class appearances for
Minor Counties in 1929, recording an outstanding
Innings Analysis of 32-11-41-8 in a drawn match against the
South Africans at
Stoke-on-Trent .
Barnes' final first-class game was against
MCC at
Lord's in 1930, when he was 57 years old; he took 2-57. He played minor county and league cricket well into his sixties and died aged 94 on
Boxing Day ,
1967 in Chadsmoor, Staffordshire.
