Brian Joseph Booth (3 December 1935 – 14 December 2020) was an English

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er who played in 350 first-class matches and 64

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games, nearly all of them for

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and

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, in a career that stretched between 1956 and 1973. He was born in Billinge End, Blackburn,

. Booth was a right-handed batsman sometimes used as an opener and a right-arm legbreak and googly bowler. He passed 1000 runs in eight seasons during his career, and scored more than 800 first-class runs in three other seasons. In his early career with Lancashire between 1956 and 1963, he bowled regularly, taking up to 30 wickets in a season, but after he joined Leicestershire in 1964 he was no more than an occasional bowler, and did not take more than nine wickets in any one season. Booth's highest first-class score was 183

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for Lancashire against

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in 1961. His best bowling figures were 7 for 143 for Lancashire against

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in 1959. Booth died aged 85 in December 2020.

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