Barrie Leadbeater, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Barrie Leadbeater

English county cricketer and umpire

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1943

Place of Birth: Harehills, England, United Kingdom

Profession: cricket umpire, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Barrie Leadbeater

  • Barrie Leadbeater (born 14 August 1943, Harehills, Leeds, Yorkshire, England) is a retired English first-class cricketer and umpire. Leadbeater played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club as a middle-order batsman from 1966 to 1979, although he preferred to open the innings.
  • His promise went largely unfulfilled; his average of 25.34 in 147 first-class matches (the norm for a county cricketer of the period was around 30.00), scoring just one century.
  • The highlight of his playing career was a man-of-the-match winning 76 in the 1969 Gillette Cup Final, a match in which he was not expected to play.
  • Leadbeater broke a finger in the County Championship game the day before, and would have been omitted had Geoffrey Boycott not suffered a worse injury.
  • Leadbeater said: "I almost forgot about the fact that I had a broken finger.
  • Then when it came to lunchtime, I was changing my clothing because of perspiration, and ate my lunch in a jockstrap and left batting glove! I couldn’t get the glove off because my finger had swollen.
  • I can't get m' breath!" Leadbeater posted a top score of 90 in 106 one day games.
  • Leadbeater was touted by Colin Cowdrey (amongst others) as a future Test match cricketer.
  • However, batting lower down the order and a shin injury in 1970 meant that Leadbeater failed to score enough runs to impress the selectors.Leadbeater was to receive a benefit season from Yorkshire, but was released from the county the season before.
  • This came as a surprise to Leadbeater, who had agreed to become the Second XI captain earlier in the season.
  • This responsibility then went to Colin Johnson.
  • Leadbeater was released from the county, finding out whilst in the local golf club.After being released from Yorkshire in 1983, Leadbeater immediately became a well-respected umpire on the first-class English circuit, umpiring four One Day Internationals during the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
  • Leadbeater was the third umpire in two Test matches, in 1993 and 2000.
  • He umpired one further ODI – seventeen years later at Trent Bridge in 2000. He retired from first-class umpiring at the mandatory age of 65 in September 2008, his final game being the match between his beloved Yorkshire and Somerset at North Marine Road, Scarborough.
  • He received a guard of honour from the players (and his wife) at the start of the final day's play.

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