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England
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Ken Barrington
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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Leg break
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82
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6806
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5867
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20/35
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256
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2715
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29
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4482
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0
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0
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3/4
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58/0
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533
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31714
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4563
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76/170
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256
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8905
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273
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3261
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8
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0
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7/40
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514/0
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9 June
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1955
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30 July
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1968
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, generally known as Ken or Kenny, was an English
Cricket er 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.
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.
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 .
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.
