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Wilf Barber (Wilfred Barber) was born on 18 April, 1901 in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England, is an English cricketer. Discover Wilf Barber's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 18 April 1901
Birthday 18 April
Birthplace Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England
Date of death 10 September, 1968
Died Place Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Nationality South Africa

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1901

Wilfred Barber (18 April 1901 – 10 September 1968) was a professional first-class cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1926 to 1947.

Barber was born on 18 April 1901 in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire.

1926

Barber made his debut in 1926 and made several appearances over the next few seasons.

He did not appear for the Yorkshire Second XI until he was 25, in 1926, when he scored 600 runs, including a century, and averaged 40.

The same season, he made his first-class debut for Yorkshire against Worcestershire without playing a single innings.

He was scheduled to bat later in the innings and was not needed to bat as Yorkshire completed an easy victory.

In the next season, he was chosen to play three matches, with a top score of 18.

For the next few years, he was unable to attain a regular spot in the Yorkshire side as there were many batsmen competing for places.

1928

In the 1928 season, Barber played 16 matches, mainly when other batsmen were required in representative matches, passing fifty for the first time in an innings of 98 against the West Indians, and followed this with two other fifties.

Next season, he scored his maiden first-class century against the South Africans in an innings of 108, out of a team total of 335, with no other batsman reaching fifty.

In total, he played on 22 occasions and scored 857 runs at an average of 30.60, including a second century, against Glamorgan.

However, Barber was in and out of the side over the next two seasons.

He did not play 20 matches or reach 500 runs in either season and passed fifty only four times in total.

1932

Despite a sound defence, Barber did not secure a regular first team place until 1932.

Matters changed for Barber in the 1932 season, when Yorkshire's regular, long serving opening batsman Percy Holmes began to suffer with illness.

This left a batting place empty and enabled Barber to play more regularly.

Wisden Cricketer's Almanack believed that he thoroughly deserved his place in the team as he scored exactly 1,000 runs at an average of 25.64, the first time he reached four figures in a season.

He finished fifth in the Yorkshire batting averages, the first time he had been placed so high.

His runs also played a part in Yorkshire winning the County Championship in his first full season.

1933

After this breakthrough, Barber steadily improved his total of runs and batting average, helping Yorkshire to win the County Championship twice in 1933 and 1935.

In 1933, he scored 1,595 runs at an average of 33.93, and in 1934 he scored 1,927 runs at an average of 40.14.

In both seasons he finished fourth in the Yorkshire averages.

1935

He played two Test matches for England in 1935 against South Africa.

An opening batsman with an excellent batting technique, Barber often batted in the middle order.

He scored 16,402 runs in first-class cricket at an average of 34.28 with 29 centuries.

He scored a thousand runs for the first time that season, a feat he was to achieve eight times, while he scored over 2,000 runs in 1935.

Until the Second World War broke out, Barber continued as a regular member of the Yorkshire side.

However, Barber's best season statistically was the following season, 1935, when he achieved his best aggregate of runs and highest average in an English season, passing 2,000 runs in a season for the only time in his career.

He scored 2,147 runs at an average of 42.09 and finished third in the Yorkshire averages.

These performances earned him selection for the Players against the Gentlemen at Lord's Cricket Ground for the only time in his career, where he scored 61 and 18 not out.

Also in 1935, Barber was chosen to represent England in the Test series against South Africa.

He played in the third and fourth Tests after England had lost the second match to be 1–0 down in the series.

He was one of six Yorkshire players selected that season.

He scored 83 runs in four innings with a highest score of 44 in the fourth Test but England only drew these matches and he was left out of the final game.

He also took a wicket with his second (and final) ball in Test cricket, when the match was heading towards an obvious draw.

Following these matches, he was chosen to go on the non-Test playing tour by the Marylebone Cricket Club of Australia and New Zealand that winter under the captaincy of Errol Holmes.

He was the senior professional but was not as effective as had been expected in Australia.

However, in New Zealand he scored 365 runs in the matches against a New Zealand representative team, at an average of 60.83.

1947

After the war, he played one more full season before retiring in 1947.

1968

His career continued in club cricket and he went on to coach local sides before his death in 1968.