Steve Barwick

Stephen Royston Barwick (6 September 1960 – 11 August 2026) was a Welsh cricketer. Barwick was a right-handed batsman who began his career a right-arm medium-fast bowler, before adding variation in the form of changes of pace and off cutters, with his restyled bowling being termed by fellow professionals like Andy Caddick as the "slowest seam bowling around". Playing for Glamorgan for 18 seasons, he took 768 wickets in all formats of the game.

Glamorgan Born in Neath, Glamorgan, Barwick made his first-class debut in 1981 against Oxford University, a season in which he also made his List A debut against Essex. Barwick played as a bowler, at the beginning of his career he bowled as a fast-medium bowler. A mainstay of the Glamorgan side for the best part of 15 years, Barwick made over 200 first-class He took his best innings bowling figures of 8/42 in the 1983 season against Worcestershire. His most successful season in first-class cricket came in 1989, when Barwick took 64 wickets at 30.43 a piece, it was only the second and final time in his career that he would pass 50 wickets in a season, having previously taken 50 exactly in 1954. His county cap came in 1987.

His bowling in List A cricket was more successful, which was aided by his change of bowling style. So rare in county cricket was it, that opposition players out of respect for Barwick coined his deliveries "Basils". He took a five wicket haul on 5 occasions, with his best figures of 6/28 coming against Derbyshire in the 1993 AXA Equity & Law League, with it being on the back of these performances that cricket writers began touting for his selection in the England team to play One Day Internationals. The 1993 season was also the same season in which he won his only silverware with Glamorgan, with the county being triumphant in the AXA Equity & Law League. His 312 wickets for the county remain the 3rd most wickets for Glamorgan in List A cricket (behind Malcolm Nash and Robert Croft). It was in this format of the game that his highest score with the bat was to come, a score of 48 not out against Worcestershire in the 1989 Refuge Assurance League. Overall, he scored 349 runs at an average of 8.30. Awarded his benefit season in 1995, he was released by Glamorgan at the end of the 1996 season. and 7 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. His first List A appearance for the team came in the 1998 NatWest Trophy against Nottinghamshire. Barwick played a further 7 List A appearances for the team, the last of which came against Leicestershire in the 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy.