Brian Joseph Booth (3 December 1935 – 14 December 2020) was an English cricketer who played in 350 first-class matches and 64 List A games, nearly all of them for Lancashire and Leicestershire, in a career that stretched between 1956 and 1973. He was born in Billinge End, Blackburn, Lancashire.

Booth was a right-handed batsman sometimes used as an opener and a right-arm legbreak and googly bowler. He passed 1000 runs in eight seasons during his career, and scored more than 800 first-class runs in three other seasons. In his early career with Lancashire between 1956 and 1963, he bowled regularly, taking up to 30 wickets in a season, but after he joined Leicestershire in 1964 he was no more than an occasional bowler, and did not take more than nine wickets in any one season.

Brian Booth (cricketer, born 1935)

Booth's highest first-class score was 183 not out for Lancashire against Oxford University in 1961. His best bowling figures were 7 for 143 for Lancashire against Worcestershire in 1959.

Brian Booth (cricketer, born 1935)

Booth died aged 85 in December 2020.

Brian Booth (cricketer, born 1935)

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1935 births

2020 deaths

Cricketers from Blackburn

English cricketers

Lancashire cricketers

Leicestershire cricketers

North v South cricketers