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Barry Pryer
Personal information
Full name	Barry James Keith Pryer
Born	1 February 1925; Plumstead, London, England
Died	15 October 2007 (aged 82); Perth, Western Australia
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm leg-spin
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
1947–1949	Kent
1948–1949	Cambridge University
Career statistics
Matches	27
Runs scored	252
Batting average	9.33
100s/50s	0/1
Top score	75*
Balls bowled	3745
Wickets	48
Bowling average	39.33
5 wickets in innings	0
10 wickets in match	0
Best bowling	4/25
Catches/stumpings	9/–
	Source: Cricinfo, 9 February 2019

Barry James Keith Pryer (1 February 1925 – 15 October 2007) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1946 and 1950, mostly for Kent County Cricket Club and Cambridge University. He was born in Plumstead and died in Perth, Western Australia.^[1]

Pryer attended the City of London School and served in the Fleet Air Arm before going up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.^[2]^[3] A leg-spin bowler and lower-order batsman, he took his best bowling figures of 4 for 25 on his first-class debut for Combined Services against Surrey in 1946.^[4] In Cambridge's match against Worcestershire in 1949 he had match figures of 57–19–133–7.^[5] His highest score was 75 not out for Cambridge against Middlesex in 1948, when he and Richard Pearsall added an unbeaten 149 in 90 minutes for the ninth wicket.^[6]

Pryer and his wife Faye spent some years in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Iraq, where he worked as a lawyer for the Iraq Petroleum Group of Companies in Baghdad.^[7] He moved to Australia after his retirement.^[3]

References

^ Barry Pryer, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
^ Wisden 1949, p. 274.
^ ^a ^b "Deaths" (PDF). St Catharine's Society Magazine: 90. 2008.
^ Wisden 1947, p. 432.
^ "Worcestershire v Cambridge University 1949". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
^ Wisden 1949, p. 592.
^ "Notices and Reports" (PDF). St Catharine's Society Magazine: 9. September 1971.