Barry Milburn

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Barry Milburn New Zealand (NZ)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	-
	Tests	First-class
Matches	3	75
Runs scored	8	737
Batting average	8.00	11.51
100s/50s	-/-	1/-
Top score	4*	103
Balls bowled	-	-
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	6/2	176/19
Test debut: 27 February 1969 Last Test: 13 March 1969 Source: [1]

Barry Douglas Milburn, born at Dunedin on 24 November 1943, was a cricketer who played three Tests for New Zealand in 1969.

Milburn was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a competent wicketkeeper who played for Otago Volts from 1963-64. 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. Milburn also toured England in 1969 and India in 1969-70, but Ken Wadsworth, a much better bat, was seen as the No 1 keeper on both tours, though an injury in the later stages of the England tour did not help Milburn's cause at a time when Wadsworth was also struggling for runs.

Milburn dropped out of first-class cricket after the 1973-74 season, but returned for Otago in 1980-81, scoring a century in his comeback match against Wellington, when he went in as a nightwatchman. His second highest score in a near-20-year career was only 36. He finally retired after the 1982-83 season.