deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls -- 06 april 1980 1 26/0 1954 & ndash ; 1968 2007 20 january 1934 right-arm fast-medium 0 australia inverell , new south wales , australia queensland 4 right-hand barry fisher barry fisher brisbane , queensland , australia domestic career bowling all-rounder http://content-www.cricinfo.com/baggygreen/content/player/5295.html cricinfo.com 1934 01 20 yes 1,369 126 1/5 56 barry fisher

barry fisher

barry fisher -lrb- 20 january 1934 -- 6 april 1980 -rrb- was an australian first class cricketer who represented queensland from 1954 -- 55 until 1967 -- 68 .
a right arm fast bowler , he played 56 matches and briefly was seen as a future australian test prospect after being selected for an australian second xi tour of new zealand in 1959 -- 60 .
his first-class career ended after he was no-balled for throwing in november 1967 .
fisher was born into a cricketing family ; his father alexander played three matches for queensland in the 1930s .
fisher modelled his action on the great australian bowler ray lindwall who was widely regarded as the best fast bowler of the late 1940s and early 1950s .
lindwall had a classical side on action which imparted outswing at high pace .
fisher made his first-class debut for queensland against new south wales during the 1954 -- 55 season when lindwall was on international duty and left a vacancy in the team .
fisher made an impressive debut , taking match figures of 8/128 .
fisher was unable to hold down a regular place in the queensland side until 1957 -- 58 season .
fisher had a metal pin inserted into his left shoulder in 1952 to prevent it from being dislocated , but he still suffered persistent shoulder problems .
he was a useful lower order batsman who batted in the number 9 position , and scored his only first-class hundred of 103 against victoria in the 1957 -- 58 season .
strong performances saw fisher selected in an australian xi that played against the english cricket team during their 1958 -- 59 tour of australia leading up to the tests .
such teams were used to trial prospective test players .
fisher also shared the new ball with lindwall for queensland when the latter was not playing for australia .
the following year in 1959 -- 60 , while the australian test team toured the indian subcontinent , fisher was selected for a second xi tour of new zealand under ian craig .
in 1962 -- 63 , fisher had a notable performance of 5/18 in one match against new south wales , helping to bowl them out for 82 .
he retired at the end of the season , but made a comeback in the 1967 -- 68 season .
the first of two matches that fisher played in his comeback was against new south wales at brisbane .
he was used only sparingly but claimed the wicket of newly retired australian test captain bob simpson in the second innings .
fisher played in the return match between the two sides at the sydney cricket ground in november 1967 .
simpson was in an aggressive mood and had reached 243 not out at the end of the first day , with the home side on 3/399 .
fisher and his bowling colleagues had conceded many runs .
umpire ted wykes no-balled fisher from square leg during his third over , a decision which stunned fisher .
he later declared `` i 've bowled 1,100 overs in shield cricket without being called by an umpire '' .
at the end of match in which he took 0/111 in 20 overs as queensland fell to an innings defeat , fisher went into retirement , this time permanently .
fisher later moved to northern new south wales , where he operated a hotel .
he committed suicide after his marriage had failed .
