Gordon Barker

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{About|the English cricketer|the New Zealand international football (soccer) player|Gordon Barker (footballer)}}

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{{Use British English|date=July 2012}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Gordon Barker

| image = Gordon Barker of Essex.jpg

| caption =

| birth_date = 6 July 1931

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2006|02|10|1931|07|06}}

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

| columns = 2

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 451

| runs1 = 22,288

| bat avg1 = 29.21

| 100s/50s1 = 30/116

| top score1 = 181*

| deliveries1 = 439

| wickets1 = 5

| bowl avg1 = 40.00

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 2/34

| catches/stumpings1= 236/–

| column2 = List A

| matches2 = 56

| runs2 = 1,436

| bat avg2 = 30.55

| 100s/50s2 = 0/8

| top score2 = 87*

| deliveries2 = 66

| wickets2 = 0

| bowl avg2 = –

| fivefor2 = –

| tenfor2 = –

| best bowling2 = –

| catches/stumpings2= 14/–

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4774/4774.html CricketArchive

| date = 12 April

| year = 2023

}}

{{Infobox football biography

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| years1 = | caps1 = | goals1 = | clubs1 = Bishop Auckland

| years2 = 1954–1959 | caps2 = 57 | goals2 = 9 | clubs2 = Southend United

| years3 = | caps3 = | goals3 = | clubs3 = Chelmsford City

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Gordon Barker (6 July 1931 – 10 February 2006) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Essex. Born in Yorkshire, Barker was a right-handed opening batsman and made his Essex debut in 1954 against the touring Canadians, scoring a century.

Barker passed 1,000 runs in a season every year from 1955 to 1967 with a best of 1,741 runs in 1960.{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4774/f_Batting_by_Season.html|title=Batting by Season Statistics|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=31 May 2021}} He finished his career with 21,893 runs for Essex.