Brian Booth (cricketer, born 1935)

Brian Joseph Booth (3 December 1935 – 14 December 2020)[1] was an English cricketer who played in 350 first-class matches and 64 List A games, nearly all of them for Lancashire and Leicestershire, in a career that stretched between 1956 and 1973.[2] He was born in Billinge End, Blackburn, Lancashire.[3]

Booth was a right-handed batsman sometimes used as an opener and a right-arm legbreak and googly bowler. He passed 1000 runs in eight seasons during his career, and scored more than 800 first-class runs in three other seasons.[4] In his early career with Lancashire between 1956 and 1963, he bowled regularly, taking up to 30 wickets in a season, but after he joined Leicestershire in 1964 he was no more than an occasional bowler, and did not take more than nine wickets in any one season.[5]

Booth's highest first-class score was 183 not out for Lancashire against Oxford University in 1961.[6] His best bowling figures were 7 for 143 for Lancashire against Worcestershire in 1959.[7]

Booth died aged 85 in December 2020.