Brian Joseph Booth (3 December 1935 – 14 December 2020)[1] 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.
[2] He was born in Billinge End, Blackburn, Lancashire.
[3] Booth was a right-handed batsman sometimes used as an opener and a right-arm legbreak and googly bowler.
[4] 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.
[5] Booth's highest first-class score was 183 not out for Lancashire against Oxford University in 1961.