Wilf Barber: Best bowling strike-rate and joint-best bowling average in Test history
English cricketer Wilf Barber was known for his batting as the right-handed batsman scored 16402 runs in the first-class career (average 34.38) where he played 373 matches.
Barber played only two Tests in 1935. In his short Test career, the right-arm fast-medium Barber bowled only two balls which were the final two balls of his debutant Test against South Africa at Leeds. He finished that innings with the bowling figures of 0.2-0-0-1 as he dismissed Jock Cameron through stumpings. It was the only time he bowled in the Test career and ended with the record Test bowling strike-rate of 2.00 and best Test bowling average of 0.00.
Though there are two more bowlers with the 0.00 Test career bowling average, no one even equalled Barber’s Test career bowling strike-rate.