page_title: Barry Jarman
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Barry Jarman / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Test batting chart of Barry Jarman. Red columns are the runs in the innings. Blue dots indicate not outs. Blue line is average in the last ten innings. Thanks to Raven4x4x for providing the template.
context_page_description: Barrington Noel Jarman OAM was an Australian Test cricketer and International Cricket Council match referee. Jarman played in 19 Test matches for the Australian cricket team between 1959 and 1969, including one match as captain.
context_section_description: On his first-class cricket debut for South Australia against New South Wales at the Adelaide Oval in December 1955, Jarman scored 14 and nine runs and took three catches. Fourteen months and seven first-class matches later he was selected in the Australian team touring New Zealand, where he played in the unofficial Test series. Jarman was then selected as one of two wicket-keepers for the 1957–58 tour of South Africa, but was overlooked in favour of Wally Grout, who then became Australia's first choice wicket-keeper.
  Jarman made his Test debut, in the absence of an injured Grout, in December 1959 against India at Green Park Stadium, Kanpur during Australia's tour of India, making one and a duck and taking two catches. Grout recovered and Jarman again became reserve keeper, touring England in 1961 without playing a Test. 
  A broken jaw to Grout led to Jarman's return to Test cricket, against England at Brisbane in the First Test of the 1962-63 Ashes series. He made two runs, took three catches and held his spot until Grout returned for the Fourth Test.
  Jarman next returned to Test cricket during the 1964–65 tour of India, where he made his highest Test score of 78 at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. Following Grout's retirement in 1966, Jarman became the first-choice wicket-keeper, playing in series against India, England and West Indies. He was appointed vice-captain of the Australian side for the 1968 tour of England and, following a finger injury to captain Bill Lawry, Jarman captained Australia in the Headingley Test. Needing only to draw the match, Australia "concentrated solely on avoiding defeat". The match was drawn and Australia retained the Ashes.
  Jarman retired from cricket at the end of the 1968–69 series against the touring West Indies, having played 19 Tests, scoring 400 runs at a average of 14.81 runs per innings and taking 50 catches and four stumpings. In first-class cricket, he scored 5,615 runs at an average of 22.73 and took 431 catches and 129 stumpings in 191 matches, a wicket-keeping record bettered at the time among Australians only by Grout and Bert Oldfield.
caption: Barry Jarman's Test career batting graph.
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