| Barry Pryer | |
| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Barry James Keith Pryer |
| Birth Date: | 1 February 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Plumstead, London, England |
| Death Place: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm leg-spin |
| Role: | Bowler |
| Club1: | Kent |
| Year1: | 1947–1949 |
| Club2: | Cambridge University |
| Year2: | 1948–1949 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 27 |
| Runs1: | 252 |
| Bat Avg1: | 9.33 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/1 |
| Top Score1: | 75 |
| Deliveries1: | 3745 |
| Wickets1: | 48 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 39.33 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 4/25 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 9/– |
| Date: | 9 February |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19077.html Cricinfo |
Barry James Keith Pryer (1 February 1925 – 15 October 2007) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1946 and 1950, mostly for Kent County Cricket Club and Cambridge University. He was born in Plumstead and died in Perth, Western Australia.[1]
Pryer attended the City of London School and served in the Fleet Air Arm before going up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2] [3] A leg-spin bowler and lower-order batsman, he took his best bowling figures of 4 for 25 on his first-class debut for Combined Services against Surrey in 1946.[4] In Cambridge's match against Worcestershire in 1949 he had match figures of 57–19–133–7.[5] His highest score was 75 not out for Cambridge against Middlesex in 1948, when he and Richard Pearsall added an unbeaten 149 in 90 minutes for the ninth wicket.[6]
Pryer and his wife Faye spent some years in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Iraq, where he worked as a lawyer for the Iraq Petroleum Group of Companies in Baghdad.[7] He moved to Australia after his retirement.[3]