Barry Pryer

{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Barry Pryer | image = | country = England | fullname = Barry James Keith Pryer | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|2|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = Plumstead, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|10|15|1925|2|1|df=yes}} | death_place = Perth, Western Australia | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm leg-spin | role = Bowler | club1 = Kent | year1 = 1947–1949 | club2 = Cambridge University | year2 = 1948–1949 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 27 | runs1 = 252 | bat avg1 = 9.33 | 100s/50s1 = 0/1 | top score1 = 75* | deliveries1 = 3745 | wickets1 = 48 | bowl avg1 = 39.33 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 4/25 | catches/stumpings1 = 9/– | date = 9 February | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19077.html Cricinfo }} '''Barry James Keith Pryer''' (1 February 1925 – 15 October 2007) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1946 and 1950, mostly for Kent County Cricket Club and Cambridge University. He was born in Plumstead and died in Perth, Western Australia.<ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32197/32197.html Barry Pryer], CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 June 2020.</ref>

Pryer attended the City of London School and served in the Fleet Air Arm before going up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.<ref>''Wisden'' 1949, p. 274.</ref><ref name=SCJ>{{cite journal |title=Deaths|journal=St Catharine's Society Magazine |date=2008|page=90|url=https://www.society.caths.cam.ac.uk/Public_Magazines/2008r.pdf}}</ref> A leg-spin bowler and lower-order batsman, he took his best bowling figures of 4 for 25 on his first-class debut for Combined Services against Surrey in 1946.<ref>''Wisden'' 1947, p. 432.</ref> In Cambridge's match against Worcestershire in 1949 he had match figures of 57–19–133–7.<ref>{{cite web |title=Worcestershire v Cambridge University 1949 |url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18925.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=9 February 2019}}</ref> His highest score was 75 not out for Cambridge against Middlesex in 1948, when he and Richard Pearsall added an unbeaten 149 in 90 minutes for the ninth wicket.<ref>''Wisden'' 1949, p. 592.</ref>

Pryer and his wife Faye spent some years in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Iraq, where he worked as a lawyer for the Iraq Petroleum Group of Companies in Baghdad.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Notices and Reports |journal=St Catharine's Society Magazine |date=September 1971 |page=9 |url=https://www.society.caths.cam.ac.uk/Public_Magazines/1971r.pdf}}</ref> He moved to Australia after his retirement.<ref name=SCJ/>

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