Barry Douglas Milburn was a cricketer

Cricketer

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 who played three Tests

Test cricket

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 for New Zealand

New Zealand cricket team

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 in 1969.

Milburn was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a competent wicketkeeper who played for Otago from 1963 to 1983. He was one of a succession of New Zealand Test wicketkeepers of modest batting ability in the mid to late 1960s, and was first choice for only one Test series, the three matches in New Zealand against the West Indies

West Indian cricket team

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 in 1968-69. Milburn also toured England in 1969 and India in 1969-70, but Ken Wadsworth

Ken Wadsworth

Kenneth John Wadsworth was a New Zealand cricketer who played 33 Tests and 13 One Day Internationals for New Zealand as a wicket-keeper. Wadsworth scored over 1,000 runs and dismissed nearly 100 batsmen as New Zealand's regular wicket-keeper between 1969–70 and 1975–76...

, a much better bat, was seen as the No 1 keeper on both tours, though an injury in the later stages of the England tour did not help Milburn's cause at a time when Wadsworth was also struggling for runs.

Milburn dropped out of first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 after the 1973-74 season, but returned for Otago in 1980-81, scoring a century in his comeback match against Wellington, when he went in as a nightwatchman

Nightwatchman (cricket)

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. His second highest score in a near-20-year career was only 36. He finally retired after the 1982-83 season.

Milburn's daughter Rowan

Rowan Milburn

Rowan Claire Milburn is a former international cricketer who appeared for both New Zealand women and Netherlands women in women's One Day International cricket. She has played for Canterbury Magicians and Otago Sparks in the State League. She is the daughter of former New Zealand Test cricketer...

has kept wicket for both the Netherlands and New Zealand at international level.