Corey Barsby (born 18 March 1992) is an Australian
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er. He played in two
List A matches for
Queensland
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in 2011.
Barsby's father,
Trevor
Trevor ( Trefor in the Welsh language) is a common given name or surname of Welsh origin. It is an habitational name, deriving from the Welsh ''tre(f)'', meaning "homestead", or "settlement" and ''fawr'', meaning "large, big". The Cornish la ...
, represented Queensland in First-class cricket. He represented Queensland in under-14's Rugby League but later focused on cricket. He began playing for
Sandgate-Redcliffe in
Brisbane Grade Cricket
Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queensland, Australia. The competition was founded under the name Brisbane Electoral Cricket in 1897 and eventually came to be known as Brisbane Grade Cricket, but has since expa ...
in the 2009/10 season and in the 2010/11 season he scored 600 runs for the club earning him selection in the Australia Under-19 merit side in December 2010. In early 2011 he was selected for Queensland in the
Ryobi Cup and wore the No. 2 which had been retired when his father retired from the State team.
Barsby was on the fringes of the Queensland team as of 2013, and as of 2015 he was captaining Sandgate-Redcliffe. In 2016 he was selected for the Queensland Academy of Sport 2nd XI again, having previously played with the Academy. As of the 2019/20 season Barsby, was still captaining Sandgate-Redcliffe.
See also
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List of Queensland first-class cricketers
This is a complete list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for Queensland in First-Class matches since 1892–93.
The Appendix contains names of 18 players who appeared for Queensland teams in List A or Twenty20 cricket matches ...
References
External links
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1992 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Queensland cricketers
Cricketers from Brisbane
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