| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Barrington Noel Jarman | |||
| Born | 17 February 1936 Hindmarsh, South Australia, Australia |
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| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||
| Batting style | Right-hand | |||
| Bowling style | - | |||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||
| Test debut (cap 215) | 19 December 1959 v India | |||
| Last Test | 24 January 1969 v West Indies | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1955–1969 | South Australia | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | FC | ||
| Matches | 19 | 191 | ||
| Runs scored | 400 | 5615 | ||
| Batting average | 14.81 | 22.73 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/2 | 5/26 | ||
| Top score | 78 | 196 | ||
| Balls bowled | 0 | |||
| Wickets | 0 | 3 | ||
| Bowling average | n/a | 32.66 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | ||
| Best bowling | n/a | 1/17 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 50/4 | 431/129 | ||
| Source: [1], 4 March 2008 | ||||
Barrington Noel Jarman OAM (born 17 February 1936) is a former Australian Test cricketer and International Cricket Council (ICC) Match Referee.
Born in Hindmarsh South Australia, the stockily-built Jarman made his South Australian district cricket debut as a 14 year old wicketkeeper and debuted for West Torrens Colts Football Club three years later.
A leg fracture curtailed Jarman's football career and turned to umpiring while concentrating on cricket.[1] He made his first-class cricket debut on 16 December 1955 for South Australia against New South Wales at the Adelaide Oval, scoring 14 and nine and taking three catches.
Fourteen months and seven first-class matches later he was selected in the Australian team touring New Zealand, where he played in the unofficial Test series. Jarman was then selected as one of two wicket keepers for the tour of South Africa in 1957/58 but was overlooked in favour of Wally Grout, who then became Australia's first choice wicket keeper.[2]
Jarman eventually made his Test debut, in the absence of an injured Grout, against India at Green Park Stadium in December 1959, making one and zero and taking two catches. Grout then recovered and Jarman again became reserve keeper, touring England in 1961 without playing a Test.
A broken jaw to Grout led to Jarman's eventual return to Test cricket, against England at Brisbane for the First Test of the 1962-63 Ashes series. He made two runs, took three catches and held his spot until Grout returned for the Fourth Test.
Jarman next returned to Test cricket during the 1964 tour of India, where he made his highest Test score of 78 at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. Following Grout's retirement in 1966, Jarman became the first choice wicket-keeper, playing in series against Pakistan, India, England and West Indies. He was appointed Vice-Captain of the Australian side for the 1968 tour of England and, following a finger injury to Captain Bill Lawry, Jarman captained Australia in the Headingley Test in 1968. The rain-affected match was drawn and Jarman was criticised for his defensive captaincy.
Jarman retired from cricket at the end of the 1968/69 series against the touring West Indies, having played nineteen Tests, scoring 400 runs at 14.81 and taking fifty catches and four stumpings. In first-class cricket, he scored 5615 runs at 22.73 and took 431 catches and 129 stumpings in 191 matches, a wicket keeping record bettered at the time only by Grout and Bert Oldfield.
Following his retirement from first-class cricket, Jarman became involved in horse racing and cricket administration, eventually leading to his 1995 appointment as one of the first ICC Match Referees, a role overseeing players and officials during international games, and until his retirement from the role in 2001 he was involved in 53 international matches.
In 1997 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia "for service to sport as a cricket player, coach and international cricket referee, and to horseracing in South Australia".
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| Preceded by Bill Lawry |
Australian Test cricket captains 1968 |
Succeeded by Bill Lawry |