Eric Barraclough
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Eric Scott Barraclough was a first class cricketer who played two matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1949 to 1950. He was a right handed batsman and right arm fast medium bowler who scored 43 runs at 21.5 and took 4 wickets at 34 with a best of 2 for 39.
He played for Yorkshire Seconds in the Minor Counties championship from 1946 to 1950.
He made his debut for the senior Yorkshire team against the Minor Counties at Lords in June 1949, scoring 3 and a career best 24* at number 7 in the order and opened the bowling with a young Fred Trueman, taking 1 for 18 in his first bowl in first class cricket in a match Yorkshire won by 136 runs.
His only county championship appearance came the following year against Northamptonshire where he took 3 wickets in a drawn game. Despite having performed creditably in the second team in 37 matches over 5 years he was not given a further opportunity to impress in first class cricket.
He was born on March 30, 1923 in Great Horton, Bradford and died, aged 76, on May 21, 1999 in the same [Yorkshire] city.
