# Ben Barnett
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{{Short description|Australian cricketer (1908–1979)}}
{{for|the English footballer|Ben Barnett (footballer)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Ben Barnett
| image = Ben Barnett c1930.jpg
| caption =
| fullname = Benjamin Arthur Barnett
| birth_date = 23 March 1908
| birth_place = [Auburn, Victoria](/source/Auburn%2C_Victoria), Australia
| death_date = 29 June 1979 (aged 71)
| death_place = [Newcastle, New South Wales](/source/Newcastle%2C_New_South_Wales), Australia
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling =
| role = Wicketkeeper-batsman
| club1 = [Victoria](/source/Victoria_cricket_team)
| year1 = 1929-30 to 1946-47
| club2 = [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club)
| year2 = 1951 to 1964
| columns = 2
| column1 = [Tests](/source/Test_cricket)
| matches1 = 4
| runs1 = 195
| bat avg1 = 27.85
| 100s/50s1 = 0/1
| top score1 = 57
| deliveries1 = 0
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1= 3/2
| column2 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches2 = 173
| runs2 = 5531
| bat avg2 = 27.51
| 100s/50s2 = 4/31
| top score2 = 131
| deliveries2 = 24
| wickets2 = 1
| bowl avg2 = 20.00
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 1/3
| catches/stumpings2= 216/141
| international = true
| country = Australia
| testdebutfor =
| testdebutagainst = England
| testdebutdate = 10 June
| testdebutyear = 1938
| testcap = 160
| lasttestdate = 20 August
| lasttestfor =
| lasttestagainst = England
| lasttestyear = 1938
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4100.html Cricinfo
| date =
| year =
}}
'''Benjamin Arthur Barnett''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (23 March 1908 – 29 June 1979) was an Australian [cricket](/source/cricket)er and sporting administrator. In a first-class cricket career lasting over 30 years, the pinnacle was appearing in four [Tests](/source/Test_cricket) appearances in 1938. After retiring from playing, he was an Australian representative on the [International Cricket Conference](/source/International_Cricket_Conference) (ICC) and served two years as president of the [International Lawn Tennis Federation](/source/International_Lawn_Tennis_Federation).
==Life and career==
Barnett was educated at [Scotch College](/source/Scotch_College%2C_Melbourne) in Melbourne. One of six siblings, he played cricket for [Hawthorn-East Melbourne](/source/Hawthorn-Monash_University_Cricket_Club) and [Victoria](/source/Victoria_cricket_team) during the 1920s and 1930s. He toured England as reserve [wicket-keeper](/source/wicket-keeper) for the [1934 Australian Test team](/source/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1934) and his subsequent selection as principal wicket-keeper for the [1938 team](/source/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1938) attracted some controversy, other contenders being the ageing [Bert Oldfield](/source/Bert_Oldfield) and the younger [Don Tallon](/source/Don_Tallon). Barnett played in all four Tests in the series.[''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 49.]
Barnett's cricket career was interrupted by [World War II](/source/World_War_II), when he volunteered for the army and served with 8th Divisional Signals in Singapore. When Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942, Barnett was incarcerated first in [Changi Prison](/source/Changi_Prison) and subsequently in Thailand [on the railway](/source/Burma_Railway). Acting as adjutant for 8th Div Sigs, Barnett maintained records which are now held in the Australian War Memorial (Canberra) and also the Signals Museum in [Wantirna](/source/Wantirna%2C_Victoria), Melbourne.
After the war, Barnett settled in England with his wife Mollie and sons Ian and Ross. Working at the time for the Australian pharmaceutical firm Aspro-Nicholas, he played [Minor Counties](/source/Minor_Counties_Cricket_Championship) cricket for [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club). At the age of 45, he captained the [Commonwealth XI team](/source/Commonwealth_XI_cricket_team_in_India_in_1953%E2%80%9354) that toured India in 1953-54. He played in 16 of the 21 [first-class matches](/source/first-class_cricket) spread over four months, and played in all five of the matches against [India](/source/India_cricket_team).["Commonwealth Team in India, 1953-54", ''[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'' 1955, pp. 812–40.] He played numerous matches for Commonwealth XI teams in England between 1950 and his last first-class match in 1961, when he was 53.[{{cite web |title=First-Class Matches played by Ben Barnett |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/704/First-Class_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=6 March 2021}}]
As an administrator he represented Australia in the UK for both cricket and tennis and was voted President of the [International Lawn Tennis Federation](/source/International_Lawn_Tennis_Federation) in 1969, a position he held for two years.[{{Cite web |title=Governance FAQs |url=https://www.itftennis.com/en/about-us/organisation/faqs/?type=governance |access-date=2025-04-28 |publisher=International Tennis Federation}}] He retired in 1974, and returned to Australia.[{{Cite news |last=Swanton |first=E. W. Swanton |date=1979-07-21 |title=B. A. Barnett dies at 71 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-b-a-barnett-dies-a/171256431/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |work=The Daily Telegraph |pages=23}}] He was appointed a [Member of the Order of Australia](/source/Member_of_the_Order_of_Australia) in 1977 for service to sport.[{{cite web |title=Mr Benjamin Arthur BARNETT |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/886436 |website=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=6 March 2021}}]
Barnett died in [Newcastle, New South Wales](/source/Newcastle%2C_New_South_Wales) in 1979 at the age of 71.[{{Cite news |date=1979-06-30 |title=Ex-Test keeper dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-ex-test-keeper-dies/171256316/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |work=The Age |pages=42}}]
==See also==
* [List of Victoria first-class cricketers](/source/List_of_Victoria_first-class_cricketers)
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4100.html Cricinfo profile]
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/704/704.html CricketArchive profile]
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Category:1908 births
Category:1979 deaths
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:Australia Test cricketers
Category:Victoria cricketers
Category:Commonwealth XI cricketers
Category:Buckinghamshire cricketers
Category:Australian expatriate cricketers in England
Category:Minor Counties cricketers
Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Category:Free Foresters cricketers
Category:North v South cricketers
Category:Gentlemen cricketers
Category:Buckinghamshire cricket captains
Category:Cricketers from Melbourne
Category:People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne
Category:Australian Army personnel of World War II
Category:World War II prisoners of war held by Japan
Category:Australian prisoners of war
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:Wicket-keepers
Category:D. G. Bradman's XI cricketers
Category:Presidents of the International Tennis Federation
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