Fred Barratt
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| Full name | Fred Barratt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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12 April 1894 Annesley, Nottinghamshire, England |
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| Died | 29 January 1947 (aged 52) Nottingham, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed lower-order batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Fast bowler, later all-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 243) | 27 July 1929 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 February 1930 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1914-31 | Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 19 December 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fred Barratt (12 April 1894 – 29 January 1947) played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire from 1914 to 1931 and represented England in five Test matches, one in the home series against South Africa in 1929 and four on the inaugural Test series against New Zealand in the 1929-30 season. He was born in Annesley, Nottinghamshire and died at Nottingham General Hospital, Nottingham.
From a mining background, Barratt was a right-arm fast bowler who, according to Wisden, combined "swerve with his pace". He was also a right-handed lower-order batsman whose batting was always forthright, but became suddenly quite proficient from 1928 onwards.
His debut in first-class cricket was sensational. Picked for Nottinghamshire to play against MCC in one of the set-piece season-openers at Lord's in 1914, he took eight wickets for 91 runs in the first innings. He followed that with five for 58 in his first County Championship match. And by the end of his first season he had amassed 115 first-class wickets at an average of 21.80, including 10 instances of five wickets or more in an innings and three of 10 or more in a match. Against Leicestershire at Trent Bridge late in the season, he took eight for 75 in an innings, improving on his debut figures.
Barratt then lost the next four years of his cricket career to the First World War and when it resumed in 1919, according to his obituary in Wisden, "he was slow in finding his old form". He took 58 wickets in the limited 1919 fixtures, 68 in 1920 and 91 in 1921. Though his batting average across these seasons and beyond was low – he managed 16 runs per innings in 1919, but did not approach that again until the late 1920s – there were individual innings of power and brilliance. Against Sussex in 1919, he made 82 while batting at No 9, with his partners in ninth and tenth wicket partnerships contributing only 11 out of 60 runs. And in 1921 against Hampshire, he made 79 out of a partnership of 129 in 50 minutes for the eighth wicket with Dodger Whysall that led Nottinghamshire to an unlikely victory after they had fallen to 65 for six in search of 286 to win.
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