# Ivan Barrow

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**Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow** (6 January 1911 – 2 April 1979) was a Jamaican [cricketer](/source/Cricket) who played 11 [Tests](/source/Test_cricket) for the [West Indies](/source/West_Indies_cricket_team) in the 1930s.

## Life and career

Barrow was born on 6 January 1911 in [Morant Bay](/source/Morant_Bay), [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica), to Hyam and Mamie Barrow, two [Sephardic Jews](/source/Sephardic_Jews), a twin to Frank Norton Barrow. He attended [Wolmer's Schools](/source/Wolmer's_Schools) in [Kingston](/source/Kingston,_Jamaica).

A [wicket-keeper](/source/Wicket-keeper) and [opening batsman](/source/Batting_order_(cricket)#Opening_batsmen_or_openers), Barrow was the first West Indian to score a century in a Test match in England, which he did at [Old Trafford](/source/Old_Trafford_Cricket_Ground) in [1933](/source/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1933).[1] He also toured Australia and New Zealand during the [1930–31 season](/source/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand_in_1930%E2%80%9331), and [England again in 1939](/source/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1939). In [Adelaide](/source/Adelaide) in 1930, he became the first batsman to be dismissed by [Don Bradman](/source/Don_Bradman) in Test cricket. Bradman took only one other Test wicket, that of [Wally Hammond](/source/Wally_Hammond) in 1933.[2]

Barrow played [first-class cricket](/source/First-class_cricket) for [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica_national_cricket_team) 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](/source/Not_out) and Jamaica won by four wickets.[4]

Barrow was one of the most notable [Jews in Jamaica](/source/History_of_the_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](/source/Kingston,_Jamaica) in 1979.

## References

1. cricinfo.com. ["Ivan Barrow"](http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51303.html). Retrieved 30 November 2009.

1. ["Sir Donald Bradman"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090914070220/http://www.bradman.com.au/sir-donald-bradman_career-statistics.aspx). Archived from [the original](http://www.bradman.com.au/sir-donald-bradman_career-statistics.aspx) on 14 September 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2009.

1. ["First-Class Matches played by Ivan Barrow"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/554/First-Class_Matches.html). *CricketArchive*. Retrieved 17 August 2023.

1. ["Jamaica v Lord Tennyson's XI 1931-32"](https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1931-32/TENNYSON-XI_IN_JAM/TENNYSON-XI_JAM_10-14MAR1932.html). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 17 August 2023.

1. Melvyn Barnett (2010). ["A history of Jewish first-class cricketers"](http://www.maccabi.com.au/News/283/A-history-of-Jewish-first-class-cricketers.cfm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180915192446/http://www.maccabi.com.au/News/283/A-history-of-Jewish-first-class-cricketers.cfm) 2018-09-15 at the Wayback Machine – Maccabi Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2015.

## External links

- [Ivan Barrow at Cricinfo](http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/51303.html)
- [Ivan Barrow at Cricket Archive](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/554/554.html)
- [Photograph of Ivan Barrow and Oscar Da Costa](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries/8568344/In-pictures-when-cricket-was-cricket.html?image=5)

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