Keith Barker (12 July 1936 – 30 March 2008) was a Guyanese
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. He played in two
first-class matches for
British Guiana
British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana.
The first known Europeans to encounter Guia ...
in 1960/61 and 1963/64.
His son, also named
Keith Barker
Keith Hubert Douglas Barker (born 21 October 1986) is an English first-class cricketer who plays for Hampshire. He is an all-rounder. He previously played professional football, where he was a striker. He came through the academy of Premier L ...
, plays county cricket in England, where he has additionally been a professional footballer.
See also
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List of Guyanese representative cricketers
The Guyana cricket team represents, originally, the British colony of British Guiana and later the independent state of Guyana.
Guyana's inaugural first-class match (as British Guiana) commenced on 29 August 1895 against Trinidad at Bourda in G ...
References
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1936 births
2008 deaths
Guyanese cricketers
Guyana cricketers
Cricketers from Saint Philip, Barbados
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