Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow (6 January 1911 – 2 April 1979) was a Jamaican

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er who played 11

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for the

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in the 1930s.

Life and career

Barrow was born on 6 January 1911 in

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, to Hyam and Mamie Barrow, two

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, a twin to Frank Norton Barrow. He attended

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. A

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and

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, Barrow was the first West Indian to score a century in a Test match in England, which he did at

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. He also toured Australia and New Zealand during the 1930–31 season, and England again in 1939. In

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in 1930, he became the first batsman to be dismissed by

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in Test cricket. Bradman took only one other Test wicket, that of

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in 1933. Barrow played

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for

from 1929 to 1939, with one final match in 1946. His most successful match was for Jamaica against the touring Lord Tennyson's XI in March 1932, when he made 169 and 58

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and Jamaica won by four wickets. Barrow was one of the most notable Jews in Jamaica, and as of 2010 was the only Jewish cricketer to have scored a century in a Test.Melvyn Barnett (2010)
"A history of Jewish first-class cricketers"
– Maccabi Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2015. He died in

in 1979.

References

External links

Ivan Barrow at Cricinfo

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