Barry Milburn
{{Short description|New Zealand cricketer (born 1943)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Barry Milburn
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Barry Douglas Milburn
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|11|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Dunedin, New Zealand
| family = Rowan Milburn (daughter)
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1969
| country = New Zealand
| testdebutagainst = West Indies
| testdebutdate = 27 February
| testdebutyear = 1969
| testcap = 117
| lasttestdate = 13 March
| lasttestagainst = West Indies
| lasttestyear = 1969
| batting = Right-handed
| role = Wicket-keeper
| club1 = Otago
| year1 = {{nowrap|1963/64–1982/83}}
| columns = 3
| column1 = Test
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 8
| bat avg1 = 8.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 4*
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1= 6/2
| column2 = FC
| matches2 = 75
| runs2 = 737
| bat avg2 = 11.51
| 100s/50s2 = 1/0
| top score2 = 103
| catches/stumpings2= 176/19
| column3 = LA
| matches3 = 8
| runs3 = 30
| bat avg3 = 7.50
| 100s/50s3 = 0/0
| top score3 = 10
| catches/stumpings3= 14/5
| date = 1 April
| year = 2017
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37718.html Cricinfo
}}
Barry Douglas Milburn (born 24 November 1943) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played three Test matches for New Zealand in 1969.{{cite web |title=Barry Milburn |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1327/1327.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=15 September 2021}}
Cricket career
Milburn was born at Dunedin in 1943 and educated at King's High School in the city.McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 92. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}} ([https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/index.html Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) A wicket-keeper and lower-order right-handed batsman, he played first-class cricket for Otago from 1963–64 to 1982–83.
He was one of a succession of New Zealand Test wicketkeepers of modest batting ability in the mid to late 1960s, and was first choice for only one Test series, the three matches in New Zealand against the West Indies in 1968-69 when, like his immediate predecessor Roy Harford, he batted at number 11.{{cite web |title=West Indies in New Zealand, 1968-69 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1968-69/WI_IN_NZ/ |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=15 September 2021}} Milburn also toured England in 1969 and India and Pakistan in 1969–70, but Ken Wadsworth, a better batsman, played as the principal keeper on both tours.{{cite news |last1=Seconi |first1=Adrian |title=Cricket: Typically modest Milburn |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/cricket/cricket-typically-modest-milburn |access-date=16 September 2021 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=14 May 2016}} An injury in the later stages of the England tour did not help Milburn's cause at a time when Wadsworth was struggling for runs.
Milburn dropped out of first-class cricket after the 1973–74 season, but returned to play for Otago in 1980–81. He scored a century in his comeback match against Wellington, when he went in as nightwatchman, and Otago went on to win by one wicket.{{cite web |title=Otago v Wellington 1980-81 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1980-81/NZ_LOCAL/SHLTR/OTAGO_WELL_SHLTR_27-29DEC1980.html |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=15 September 2021}} His next highest score in a 19-year career was only 36.{{cite web |title=First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Barry Milburn |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1327/f_Batting_by_Season.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=15 September 2021}} He finally retired after the 1982–83 season.
Later life
Milburn was the wicket-keeping coach at the New Zealand Cricket Academy for five years. He was also a hockey player and umpire in Otago.{{cite news |last1=Hepburn |first1=Steve |title=Hockey: About 150 to celebrate Taieri club centenary |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/hockey/hockey-about-150-celebrate-taieri-club-centenary |access-date=1 October 2023 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=25 September 2015}}
Later Milburn lived in Queensland for 18 years, managing apartment buildings. He retired and returned to New Zealand in 2016, to live in Mosgiel, near Dunedin. He has three daughters and lives with his wife Jen. Their daughter Rowan kept wicket for both the Netherlands and New Zealand at international level in the 2000s.{{cite news |last1=McMurran |first1=Alistair |title=Cricket: Keeper's advice – keep up your batting |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/cricket/cricket-keepers-advice-keep-your-batting |access-date=16 September 2021 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=1 April 2013}}
References
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External links
- {{cricinfo|id=37718}}
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Category:Cricketers from Dunedin
Category:New Zealand cricketers
Category:New Zealand Test cricketers
Category:People educated at Taieri College