Brian Booth (cricketer, born 1935)

For the Australian Test cricketer, see Brian Booth.

Brian Joseph Booth (born 3 December 1935) is a former English cricketer who played in 350 first-class matches and 64 List A games, nearly all of them for Lancashire and Leicestershire, in a career that stretched between 1956 and 1973.[1] He was born in Billinge End, Blackburn, Lancashire.

Booth was a right-handed batsman sometimes used as an opener and a right-arm legbreak and googly bowler. He passed 1000 runs in eight seasons during his career, and scored more than 800 first-class runs in three other seasons.[2] In his early career with Lancashire between 1956 and 1963, he bowled regularly, taking up to 30 wickets in a season, but after he joined Leicestershire in 1964 he was no more than an occasional bowler, and did not take more than nine wickets in any one season.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Player profile: Brian Booth". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding in each season by Brian Booth". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "First-class Bowling in each season by Brian Booth". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 February 2013.