He has 6 away tours due to political reasoning, four are very good, one is average and one is horrible (the dreaded Windies tour). Saying he doesn't have too much away from home makes sense and is a caveat similar to Lillee which I'd agree with, defining his career by 2 tests in windies at age of 22-23 against a supreme ATG batting lineup and on complete roads admist controversies, is not something I'm gonna agree with.
Trueman was BY FAR the standout pacer of 60s, similar to Steyn, that probably plays a factor in comparision to Barrington who often isn't even rated very highly
Trueman was rated that highly because he was the first bowler ever to reach 300 wickets. The same reason Anderson is rated highly among general public.Trueman was BY FAR the standout pacer of 60s, similar to Steyn, that probably plays a factor in comparision to Barrington who often isn't even rated very highly
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Me too, don't necessarily put much weight on those matches per se, though don't write them off completely as well as they atleast were partially responsible for him playing so few away (Hutton didn't feel confident about his bowling away). What I will say though, 2 of those 6 matches were in NZ, where just the conditions were familiar but MUCH more importantly, they were a horrible batting lineup, similar to present day WI. The 4 series he played away, firstly is a really small sample; but more importantly, he can overall be called just goodish in them. Nothing Great. That's my caveat, he has nothing sort of Great away from home.
His bigger flaw is that he only had a 10 year career with all those matches presumably in the prime of his career, while most ATG batsmen have full 15+ years of batting output regardless of era.
Hutton was objectively biased in his assessment tbf, and there were personal problems between Hutton and Trueman that extended beyond the cricket field, something serious enough to get Trueman's good behaviour check blocked and to make them enemies for life so I won't put much stock in Hutton's judgement. I mean, Yeah I won't pretend that he is an ATG away from home but I don't think his numbers in Australia and Windies are a problem considering he performed in two very batter friendly tours (35.1RPW in Ashes 1962-63, 37.4RPW in 1960 Carribean trip), one against a very strong batting. Imo his away record isn't a big problem and doesn't make him overrated.
That is actually a good point. I feel like Barrington Overachieved in tests. His non-test FC average was 43.
How many batters are there who averages 50+ in more countries? Younis, Sangakkara and Dravid are some names that come to mind.
I think they overall are quite lackluster se ATG standards.
I'm not claiming to know what speed Waqar hit. I highly, highly doubt it was 160 though.
Barrington had a late start to his career. He played 2 Tests in 1955 and then played his next match in 1959 when he was 29 years old. I would say if he did not miss his prime years, he would have had an ever better record and remembered more fondly.
Was he way faster tho? Don't think so. Young Bumrah was also bowling at 150 kmph.
Averaging 60 for a 9 year stretch is damn impressive.
Go for it. Nobody's gonna come after you.
His entire career was just a peak
Barrington’s average became higher with competition