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michael barton -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

michael richard barton -lrb- 14 october 1914 at east dereham , norfolk , england -- 1 july 2006 in england -rrb- was an english cricketer .
a right-handed batsman , in a first-class career lasting from 1935 to 1955 , he scored 5965 runs at 25.82 , with 7 hundreds and a highest score of 192 .
he appeared for oxford university from 1935 to 1937 , winning a blue in the latter two years .
he also played for norfolk in the minor counties championship from 1933 to 1947 .
after his oxford days his first-class career appeared to be over , but surrey found themselves short of a captain -lrb- who in those days by convention had to be an amateur -rrb- and approached him .
he captained them in some games in 1948 , and was the official club captain from 1949 to 1951 .
surrey were the joint county champions with lancashire in 1950 .
he was surrey president in 1983 .
