Barry Shepherd
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Barry Kenneth Shepherd was an Australia
n cricket
er who played in 9 Tests
from 1963 to 1965.
Barry Shepherd was an outstanding junior sportsman in Australian rules football
, hockey and cricket. Twice representing Western Australia in schoolboy football, he won the medal for best player at the carnival on the first year of his selection (in Tasmania). He was runner-up for the same medal the following year (in Melbourne). Richmond Australian rules football club showed significant interest in recruiting him.
He also represented Western Australia in hockey, winning all Australian selection as a full back.
Cricket was the sport which he decided to pursue and he made his debut for Western Australia at age 17. He later captained the State with distinction. Known as a fierce competitor, he instilled in Western Australian Cricket the will and self belief which made subsequent on field success possible. He made his Test debut in the 1962-63 Ashes series, replacing Peter Burge in the batting line up. He made a vital 71 not out in the first innings when the England off-spinner Fred Titmus
was running through the Australian batting order, taking 7/79. Ironically, the England team had tried to played Shepherd into the team and thought they had failed by getting him out cheaply in tour matches. He made only 23 more run in the series and was replaced by Burge in the Fifth Test, but his 94 runs (47.00) put him third in the Australian batting averages.
After retiring from the game, he devoted much time to cricket administration serving for many years on the Western Australian Cricket Association
board and, subsequently, the Australian Cricket Board.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in 9 Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
from 1963 to 1965.
Barry Shepherd was an outstanding junior sportsman in Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
, hockey and cricket. Twice representing Western Australia in schoolboy football, he won the medal for best player at the carnival on the first year of his selection (in Tasmania). He was runner-up for the same medal the following year (in Melbourne). Richmond Australian rules football club showed significant interest in recruiting him.
He also represented Western Australia in hockey, winning all Australian selection as a full back.
Cricket was the sport which he decided to pursue and he made his debut for Western Australia at age 17. He later captained the State with distinction. Known as a fierce competitor, he instilled in Western Australian Cricket the will and self belief which made subsequent on field success possible. He made his Test debut in the 1962-63 Ashes series, replacing Peter Burge in the batting line up. He made a vital 71 not out in the first innings when the England off-spinner Fred Titmus
Fred Titmus
Frederick John Titmus MBE was an English cricketer, whose first-class career spanned five decades. Although he was best known for his off spin , he was an accomplished lower-order batsman who deserved to be called an all-rounder, even opening the batting for England on six occasions...
was running through the Australian batting order, taking 7/79. Ironically, the England team had tried to played Shepherd into the team and thought they had failed by getting him out cheaply in tour matches. He made only 23 more run in the series and was replaced by Burge in the Fifth Test, but his 94 runs (47.00) put him third in the Australian batting averages.
After retiring from the game, he devoted much time to cricket administration serving for many years on the Western Australian Cricket Association
Western Australian Cricket Association
The Western Australian Cricket Association is the governing body for cricket in Western Australia.-History:The WACA was formed on 5 November 1885...
board and, subsequently, the Australian Cricket Board.