Henry Thomas Barling (1 September 1906 – 2 January 1993) was an English

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

er. A right-handed batsman, in a first-class career with

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lasting from 1927 to 1948, he scored 19209 runs at an average of 34.61, with 34 hundreds and a highest score of 269. During

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, he served in

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of the RAF. After retiring from first-class cricket, he was a coach at

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from 1948 to 1966.

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1906 births 1993 deaths English cricketers Surrey cricketers English cricket coaches Royal Air Force personnel of World War II East of England cricketers Cricketers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea People from Kensington 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-cricket-bio-1900s-stub