[2] Previously he had won the Gillette Cup with Sussex in 1978, dismissing Richards, bowling 12 cheap overs, and scoring 44 in the Final.
Late on in his career he was involved in a small controversy in the extremely tight finish to 1984 County Championship.
Nottinghamshire then narrowly lost their final match of the season and were pipped for the Championship by Essex.
He won plaudits particularly for his role with a successful England A tour of India and Bangladesh in 1994–5, Simon Hughes writing in February 1995 that Barclay "has demonstrated how valuable it is to have an empathy with the country you are in - he was still smiling even when the engine of the team bus briefly caught fire.
"[6] He briefly returned to management recently with the blind team, but he is now working for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).