Ivan Barrow
CountryWest Indies
FullnameIvanhoe Mordecai Barrow
Birth date6 January 1911
Birth placeMorant Bay, Jamaica
Death date2 April 1979 (aged 68)
Death placeKingston, Jamaica
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
Internationaltrue
Testdebutdate3 April
Testdebutyear1930
TestdebutagainstEngland
Testcap26
Lasttestdate24 June
Lasttestyear1939
LasttestagainstEngland
Club 1Jamaica
Year 11928–1946
Columns2
Column 1Test
Matches 111
Runs 1276
Bat avg 116.23
100s/50s 11/0
Top score 1105
Deliveries 10
Wickets 1
Bowl avg 1
Fivefor 1
Tenfor 1
Best bowling 1
Catches/stumpings 117/5
Column 2First-class
Matches 268
Runs 22,551
Bat avg 223.84
100s/50s 23/10
Top score 2169
Deliveries 254
Wickets 20
Bowl avg 2
Fivefor 20
Tenfor 20
Best bowling 2
Catches/stumpings 273/27
Date10 February
Year2011
Sourcehttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/554/554.html CricketArchive

Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow (6 January 1911 – 2 April 1979) was a Jamaican cricketer who played 11 Tests for the West Indies in the 1930s.

Life and career

Barrow was born on 6 January 1911 in Morant Bay, Jamaica, to Hyam and Mamie Barrow, two Sephardic Jews, a twin to Frank Norton Barrow. He attended Wolmer's Schools in Kingston.

A wicket-keeper and opening batsman, Barrow was the first West Indian to score a century in a Test match in England, which he did at Old Trafford in 1933.[1] He also toured Australia and New Zealand during the 1930–31 season, and England again in 1939. In Adelaide in 1930, he became the first batsman to be dismissed by Don Bradman in Test cricket. Bradman took only one other Test wicket, that of Wally Hammond in 1933.[2]

Barrow played first-class cricket for Jamaica from 1929 to 1939, with one final match in 1946.[3] His most successful match was for Jamaica against the touring Lord Tennyson's XI in March 1932, when he made 169 and 58 not out and Jamaica won by four wickets.[4]

Barrow was one of the most notable Jews in Jamaica, and as of 2010 was the only Jewish cricketer to have scored a century in a Test.[5] He died in Kingston in 1979.

References

  1. ^ cricinfo.com. "Ivan Barrow". Retrieved 30 November 2009.
  2. ^ "Sir Donald Bradman". Archived from the original on 14 September 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
  3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Ivan Barrow". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Jamaica v Lord Tennyson's XI 1931-32". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  5. ^ Melvyn Barnett (2010). "A history of Jewish first-class cricketers" Archived 2018-09-15 at the Wayback Machine – Maccabi Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2015.