Barrie Leadbeater

Barrie Leadbeater (born 14 August 1943) ) is a former English first-class cricketer and umpire.

Born at Harehills in Leeds, Leadbeater played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club as a middle-order batsman from 1966 to 1979, His promise went largely unfulfilled; his average of 25.34 in 147 first-class matches (the norm for a good county batsman of the period was around 30.00), scoring just one century. The highlight of his playing career was a man-of-the-match winning 76 in the 1969 Gillette Cup Final, a match in which he was not expected to play. Leadbeater broke a finger in the County Championship game the day before, and would have been omitted had Geoffrey Boycott not suffered a worse injury.