William Barton (New Zealand cricketer)

William Barton
Personal information
Full name William Edward Barton
Born 1858
Hursley, Hampshire, England
Died (1942-09-15)15 September 1942
Christchurch, New Zealand
Batting Right-handed
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1879-80 West Coast
1882-83 to 1886-87 Auckland
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 10
Runs scored 464
Batting average 30.93
100s/50s 0/3
Top score 83
Balls bowled 287
Wickets 6
Bowling average 16.16
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 3/25
Catches/stumpings 4/0
Source: Cricket Archive, 3 October 2014

William Edward Barton (1858 – 15 September 1942) was a New Zealand cricketer who played ten first-class matches for West Coast and Auckland in the 1880s.

Life

Born in England, Barton was educated at Cranleigh School in Surrey. He migrated to New Zealand in 1877[1] and worked for the Bank of New Zealand, first in Wanganui, then in Whangarei in 1888,[2] then in Kaikoura in the 1890s,[3] then as manager of the Rangiora branch from 1906. He remained in Rangiora after he retired.[4]

Cricket career

The New Zealand cricketer Dan Reese considered Barton the first great New Zealand batsman. He singled out Barton's performance for the Wanganui XXII against the 1880-81 Australian XI, when he scored 44 out of the 85 required to win, against the bowling of Fred Spofforth, Harry Boyle and Joey Palmer, in a match in which 51 wickets fell for 266 runs.[5][6]

Barton's representative career began in November 1879 when, in a one-day match, he scored 67 for Wanganui against Wellington, in a match in which 40 wickets fell for 271 runs.[7] A few weeks later, in his first first-class match, he scored 75 not out ("a grand innings without a ghost of a chance")[8] out of West Coast's first innings of 120 in a victory over Wellington. No other batsman in the match exceeded 26.[9]

Playing for Auckland against Taranaki in 1882-83, he opened the batting and scored 74. No one else in the match reached 50.[10] The Auckland Star commented that his innings showed why Barton had "the reputation of being the best batsman in the colony".[11]

He made his highest first-class score of 83 for Auckland against Wellington in 1884-85, once again the highest score in the match: "The Auckland crack had played a magnificent innings, his hitting on both sides being well timed and judicious, his leg strokes being made in his very best form."[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Old Time Players". New Zealand Herald. LXXIV (22696): 18. 7 April 1937. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Cricket". Auckland Star. XIX (278): 2 (supplement). 24 November 1888. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Out Door Sports". Observer. XVI (955): 5. 17 April 1897. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Mr W. E. Barton". Press. LXXVIII (23748): 6. 21 September 1942. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Dan Reese, Was It All Cricket?, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1948, p. 439.
  6. ↑ "Wanganui v Australians 1880-81". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  7. ↑ "Wanganui v Wellington 1879-80". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  8. ↑ "Wellington v. Western Waifs". Wanganui Chronicle. XXI (4220): 2. 27 December 1879. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "Wellington v West Coast 1879-80". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  10. ↑ "Auckland v Taranaki 1882-83". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  11. ↑ "Interprovincial Cricket Match". Auckland Star. XIX (3945): 3. 26 March 1883. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  12. ↑ "Wellington v Auckland 1884-85". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  13. ↑ "Auckland v. Wellington". New Zealand Times. XLIV (7370): 3. 9 January 1885. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
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