Barrington Noel Jarman (17 February 193617 July 2020) was an Australian
Test cricket
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er and
International Cricket Council
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(ICC)
match referee.
Jarman played in 19 Test matches for the
Australian cricket team
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between 1959 and 1969, including one match as captain.
Early life
Jarman was born in
Hindmarsh, South Australia
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The suburb is located between South Road to the west and North Adelaide. The River Torrens forms its southern boundary and the Grange and ...
, and later attended the Thebarton Technical High School.
[ He played club cricket for Woodville Cricket Club in South Australian district cricket. After playing in the club's schoolboy team as an 11-year-old in 1948, Jarman began playing senior cricket during the 1949/50 season and made his A-Grade debut in 1952 at the age of 15.]
While playing Australian rules football for West Torrens Football Club
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Colts in the South Australian National Football League
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Originally formed as t ...
(SANFL) junior competition, Jarman broke his leg which led him to focus on cricket.
Career
On his first-class cricket
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debut for South Australia
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against New South Wales
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at the Adelaide Oval
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in December 1955, Jarman scored 14 and nine runs and took three catches. Fourteen months and seven first-class matches later he was selected in the Australian team touring New Zealand
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, where he played in the unofficial Test series. Jarman was then selected as one of two wicket-keepers for the 1957–58 tour of South Africa, but was overlooked in favour of Wally Grout, who then became Australia's first choice wicket-keeper.
Jarman made his Test debut, in the absence of an injured Grout, in December 1959 against India
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at Green Park Stadium
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This arena is an International Test match venue. Green Park is under ...
, Kanpur during Australia's tour of India, making one and a duck
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and taking two catches. Grout recovered and Jarman again became reserve keeper, touring England in 1961 without playing a Test.
A broken jaw to Grout led to Jarman's return to Test cricket, against England
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at Brisbane
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in the First Test of the 1962-63 Ashes series
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. He made two runs, took three catches and held his spot until Grout returned for the Fourth Test.
Jarman next returned to Test cricket during the 1964–65 tour of India, where he made his highest Test score of 78 at Brabourne Stadium
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, Mumbai
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. Following Grout's retirement in 1966, Jarman became the first-choice wicket-keeper, playing in series against India, England and West Indies
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. He was appointed vice-captain of the Australian side for the 1968 tour of England and, following a finger injury to captain Bill Lawry
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, Jarman captained Australia in the Headingley
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Test. Needing only to draw the match, Australia "concentrated solely on avoiding defeat". The match was drawn and Australia retained the Ashes
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.
Jarman retired from cricket at the end of the 1968–69 series against the touring West Indies, having played 19 Tests, scoring 400 runs at an average
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of 14.81 runs per innings and taking 50 catches and four stumpings. In first-class cricket
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, he scored 5,615 runs at an average of 22.73 and took 431 catches and 129 stumpings in 191 matches, a wicket-keeping record bettered at the time among Australians only by Grout and Bert Oldfield.
Later life
Following his retirement from first-class cricket, Jarman became involved in horse racing and cricket administration, eventually leading to his 1995 appointment as one of the first ICC match referees, a role overseeing players and officials during international games. He was a referee in 53 matches at Test and One Day International level between 1995 and 2001.
In 1997 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia
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"for service to sport as a cricket player, coach and international cricket referee, and to horseracing in South Australia". The main grandstand at the Woodville Oval
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in Adelaide, home of the Woodville Cricket Club, is named the Barry Jarman Stand in his honour.[
Jarman was married to Gaynor and had four children.] He died on 17 July 2020, aged 84.
References
Citations
Cited texts
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* Wilson, A. (2002) "The Once Only's", ''The Yorker'', Journal of the Melbourne Cricket Club Library, No. 35, Summer 2002–03, Melbourne Cricket Club
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, Melbourne.
External links
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HowSTAT! statistical profile on Barry Jarman
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1936 births
2020 deaths
Australia Test cricketers
Australia Test cricket captains
Australian cricket administrators
Australian cricketers
Cricket match referees
Cricketers from Adelaide
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
South Australia cricketers
Wicket-keepers
Sportsmen from South Australia