Jack Barrett (cricketer)

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Jack Barrett
Portrait of Jack Barrett in 1890
Personal information
Full name
John Edward Barrett
Born(1866-10-15)15 October 1866
South Melbourne
Died6 February 1916(1916-02-06) (aged 49)
Peak Hill, Western Australia
Height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RelationsEdgar Barrett (brother)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 55)21 July 1890 v England
Last Test11 August 1890 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1884/85–1892/93Victoria
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 2 50
Runs scored 80 2039
Batting average 26.66 25.81
100s/50s 0/1 0/13
Top score 67* 97
Balls bowled 0 965
Wickets 0 21
Bowling average – 16.00
5 wickets in innings 0 3
10 wickets in match 0 1
Best bowling – 6/49
Catches/stumpings 1/0 16/0
Source: [1]

John Edward Barrett (15 October 1866 in South Melbourne – 6 February 1916 at Peak Hill, Western Australia) was an Australian cricketer who played two Tests in 1890. He worked as a medical doctor.

Life and career[edit]

Barrett pictured 2nd right back row with the 1890 Australian team.

Barrett was educated at Wesley College in Melbourne before going on to Melbourne University to study medicine.[1] His father was a doctor in South Melbourne, and his older brother was also a doctor.[2]

A careful batsman, reliable in a crisis, Jack Barrett played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1885 to 1893.[3] Despite having missed many of Victoria's matches owing to his medical studies, he was selected to tour England in 1890 with the Australian team.[4]

On his Test debut, in the first Test of the series at Lord's, Barrett became the first Australian batsman to carry his bat in Test cricket.[5] In the second innings he opened the innings and batted for 280 minutes and scored 67 not out of a team total of 176.[6] On the tour as a whole he was second in the Australian batting averages with 1305 runs at 22.89.[4] According to A. G. Moyes, he "did a splendid job, showing unlimited patience and splendid defence, though he lacked grace and charm in technique to relieve the monotony".[7] He made his highest first-class score of 97 (and 73 not out in the second innings) in the final match of the tour against an England XI at Manchester.[8]

In addition to his cricketing skills, Barrett was also a leading Australian rules footballer, playing for South Melbourne in the late 1880s and early 1890s, topping the Victorian Football Association (VFA) goal kicking in 1889 with 40 goals.[9]

Barrett undertook further medical studies in England after the cricket tour, earning an MRCS diploma in surgery.[10] He retired from cricket at the age of 26 to pursue his medical career.[1] At the time of his death in the goldfields town of Peak Hill, Western Australia, he had been practising there for some years.[10]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 51.
  2. ^ "[Untitled]". Record: 3. 12 February 1916.
  3. ^ "Jack Barrett". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  4. ^ a b Jack Pollard, Australian Cricket: The Game and the Players, Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 1982, p. 100.
  5. ^ "Hughes' familiar problem, and Steyn's wickets". Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  6. ^ "1st Test, Australia tour of England at London, Jul 21-23 1890". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  7. ^ A. G. Moyes, Australian Cricket: A History, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1959, p. 223.
  8. ^ "England XI v Australians 1890". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  9. ^ Atkinson, p. 180.
  10. ^ a b "Personal". The Argus. Melbourne: 6. 10 February 1916.

External links[edit]

Sources[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jack Barrett (cricketer).
  • Atkinson, G. (1982) Everything you ever wanted to know about Australian rules football but couldn't be bothered asking, The Five Mile Press: Melbourne. ISBN 0 86788 009 0.
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