Michael Barnwell
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| Full name | Lionel Michael Lowry Barnwell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 August 1943 Crewkerne, Somerset, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1965–1966 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1969–1971 | Eastern Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 22 May 1965 Cambridge University v New Zealanders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 1 January 1971 Eastern Province v Natal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Only List A | 7 November 1970 Eastern Province v Orange Free State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 8 December 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lionel Michael Lowry Barnwell (born 12 August 1943 in Crewkerne) was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Somerset and Eastern Province.
The nephew of John Barnwell who played cricket for Somerset before and after the Second World War, Michael Barnwell was a middle-order right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler.
After captaining the first XI at Repton in 1963, he played four times for Cambridge University in 1965 and 1966 without gaining a regular place, and six times for Somerset in 1967 and 1968. His only seasons of regular first-class cricket were for Eastern Province in South Africa when he opened the innings for a side that included the Pollock brothers and Tony Greig. His one century in top-class cricket came in his only List A match: 124 against Orange Free State in the quarter-final of the Gillette Cup in 1970-71.
He left first-class cricket at the end of the 1970-71 season.
From 1976 to 1981, he played in and often captained the Combined Services teams that played the National Cricket Association's Young Cricketers teams in one-day matches at Lord's.