| Brian Booth | |
| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Brian Joseph Booth |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Billinge End, Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm leg-break and googly |
| Club1: | Lancashire |
| Club2: | Leicestershire |
| Year2: | 1964–1973 |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 350 |
| Runs1: | 15,298 |
| Bat Avg1: | 27.91 |
| 100S/50S1: | 18/77 |
| Top Score1: | 183 |
| Deliveries1: | 8,409 |
| Wickets1: | 146 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 32.03 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 7/143 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 135/– |
| Column2: | List A |
| Matches2: | 64 |
| Runs2: | 870 |
| Bat Avg2: | 20.71 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/4 |
| Top Score2: | 73 |
| Deliveries2: | – |
| Wickets2: | – |
| Bowl Avg2: | – |
| Fivefor2: | – |
| Tenfor2: | – |
| Best Bowling2: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 11/– |
| Date: | 25 May 2020 |
| Source: | https://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9856.html Cricinfo |
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.