David Leslie Bairstow (1 September 1951 – 5 January 1998) was an English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire and England as a wicket-keeper.

He was particularly well loved by the Yorkshire crowds for his ability to turn round limited over games by his late-order swinging of the bat.

[5] Bairstow however helped the county in its sparse successes during his career, including the John Player League in 1983 and the Benson and Hedges Cup in 1987.

[6] He also led Yorkshire as captain (and man of the match) to a narrow defeat in a Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final against Warwickshire in 1984.

[7] His only List A hundred, in the same competition in 1981, did however come in a victory in an extraordinary game against Derbyshire,[5] where he dominated an unbroken last-wicket stand of 80 with Mark Johnson to give Yorkshire an improbable one-wicket win.

[10] He had more opportunities in One Day Internationals on the strength of his batting in domestic cricket – he made ten first-class centuries – but consistently failed to break through, and never scored more than 23 in his twenty ODI innings.

[12] He played for Griqualand West, during the winters of 1976 and 1977, appearing rather surprisingly as a seam bowler on two occasions and taking 3–82 against Transvaal B.