16 Facts About Eddie Barlow

Eddie Barlow was named as one of the six South African Cricket Annual players of the year in 1962.

The bespectacled Eddie Barlow was both a popular and easily recognisable figure in South African cricket from the 1960s onwards.

Eddie Barlow was nicknamed "Bunter" because of his supposed resemblance to Billy Bunter.

Eddie Barlow hit his first century that season, 110 not out against North-Eastern Transvaal in the final match of the season, a match in which he took five wickets.

Eddie Barlow toured England with the young Fezelas team in 1961; he was a last-minute replacement for David Pithey, who had had to withdraw.

Opening the batting for the first time, Eddie Barlow hit 36,22 and 110 in his two first-class matches.

Eddie Barlow scored 603 runs in the series including a double century at Adelaide.

Eddie Barlow finished with first-innings figures of 7 for 64, which would have been his best Test figures, and match figures of 12 for 142, which would have been his only 10-wicket Test match haul.

In 1976 Eddie Barlow went to Derbyshire as the overseas professional and took over the captaincy halfway through his first season.

Eddie Barlow had already stood for the liberal Progressive Federal Party at a parliamentary election for the Simonstown seat in 1980, losing by only 1000 votes.

Eddie Barlow took up a post as Director of the South African Sports Office in London and afterwards he became a cricket coach.

Eddie Barlow was appointed coach at Gloucestershire but due to his father's death, he had to leave after two seasons.

Eddie Barlow then became the first coach of the newly formed Super Juice Academy which was based in the Western Cape and was a feeder for Western Province and Boland cricket.

Eddie Barlow was then invited to become the national coach of Bangladesh in 1999 and helped put together the plans that enabled the country to achieve official Test status the following year.

Eddie Barlow was forced to sell the wine farm in 2001 to pay for medical bills that his insurer refused to pay.

Eddie Barlow died after a brain haemorrhage in Jersey on 30 December 2005, leaving his third wife a widow.