| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | English | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | List A | ||
| Matches | 19 | 1 | ||
| Runs scored | 612 | 124 | ||
| Batting average | 19.74 | 124.00 | ||
| 100s/50s | -/2 | 1/- | ||
| Top score | 74 | 124 | ||
| Balls bowled | 400 | - | ||
| Wickets | 3 | - | ||
| Bowling average | 64.66 | - | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | N/A | ||
| Best bowling | 1-11 | - | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 10/- | 1/- | ||
| Source: CricketArchive, | ||||
Lionel Michael Lowry Barnwell, born at Crewkerne on 12 August 1943, was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Somerset and Eastern Province.
The nephew of John Barnwell who played cricket for Somerset before and after the Second World War, Michael Barnwell was a middle-order right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler.
He played four times for Cambridge University in 1965 and 1966 without gaining a regular place, and six times for Somerset in 1967 and 1968. His only seasons of regular first-class cricket were for Eastern Province in South Africa when he opened the innings for a side that included the Pollock brothers and Tony Greig. His one century in top-class cricket came in his only List A match: 124 against Orange Free State in the quarter-final of the Gillette Cup in 1970-71.
He left first-class cricket at the end of the 1970-71 season.
From 1976 to 1981, he played in and often captained the Combined Services teams that played the National Cricket Association's Young Cricketers teams in one-day matches at Lord's.