Barlow Carkeek
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| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | - | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 6 | 95 |
| Runs scored | 16 | 1388 |
| Batting average | 5.33 | 12.17 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/2 |
| Top score | 6* | 68 |
| Balls bowled | 0 | 0 |
| Wickets | 0 | 0 |
| Bowling average | - | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | - | - |
| Catches/stumpings | 6/0 | 114/46 |
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Test debut: 27 May 1912 |
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William "Barlow" Carkeek (born October 17, 1878, at Walhalla, Victoria, and died February 20, 1937, at Prahran, Victoria) was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.
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[edit] "Barlow"
Carkeek, generally known otherwise as "Bill", earned the nickname "Barlow" amongst Australian cricketing community, because his batting style reminded all and sundry of Dick Barlow, the notoriously defensive opening batsman for both England and Lancashire.
[edit] Cricket
Principally played as a wicketkeeper, "Barlow" Carkeek was also a stolid, defensive left-hand batsman.
He played for Victoria for 10 years from 1903-04, and was rated as steady rather than spectacular.
He toured England in 1909 as the second wicketkeeper to Sammy Carter and came back in 1912 as first choice on the tour that was blighted by the dispute between Australia's leading Test players (including the "non-"leading" Test player David Smith (sportsman)) and the Australian Board of Control.
It was on this tour that he played his six Test matches, three each against England and South Africa in the Triangular Tournament. He scored only 16 runs and took just six catches.
[edit] Australian Rules football
A blacksmith by trade, Carkeek also played 26 top-class Australian rules football games, scoring 8 goals, for Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League from 1903-1905.
He also played for the (then) Victorian Football Association side Richmond Football Club both before and after his stint with Essendon. He left Essendon after the fourth home-and-away match of the 1905 VFL season; he returned to Richmond, and played in the 1905 Richmond winning VFA Grand Final Team.[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ He was also a regular member of the Richmond Team that one the VFA Premiership in 1902; however, in 1902, the premiership was simply awarded to the team at the top of the ladder at the end of the season — thus, no "Grand Final" match was played in 1902.
[edit] References
- Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
- Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872-1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-959-17402-8
