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was the turning point of the game at Lord's in 1884, and at
Manchester, in 1886, his steadiness pulled England through when the Australian bowlers were in deadly form on a slightly crumbled wicket. Moreover, he took seven wickets for 44 runs in Australia's second innings. In 1884 at Trent Bridge, for
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Barlow was 5 ft 8 inches tall and weighed approximately eleven stone. He was strong and sturdily built. He was known for his defensive batting, which made it hard to dismiss him, and which earned him the nickname
Stonewaller. On one occasion he scored no runs in a partnership of 45 with A.
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England against the Australians, Barlow played the game of his life. He scored not out 10 and 101 and took ten wickets—four for six runs and six for 42. It is on record that when the North started their second innings on a slow and nasty wicket,
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Cricket was engrained in Barlow from an early age, and he went on to play for
Lancashire for 20 years and continued to play at lower levels into his sixties. He left school aged fourteen to work in a printing office as an apprentice
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According to a (possibly apocryphal) story related by
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