Glen Frederick Barrett (born 31 March 1979) is a

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an former cricketer who represented several teams in Zimbabwean domestic cricket. He played predominantly as a middle-order batsman. Barrett was born in Salisbury (now known as

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), and attended

Falcon College , denomination = Interdenominational , established = , headmaster = D. van Wyk , grades_label = Forms , grades = 1—6 , gender = Co-educational , lower_age = 12 , upper_age = 18 , pupils = 384 (2016) , campus_type = Rural , houses = ...

, St. George's College, and St. John's College at various stages. His father played for the national rugby union team. Barrett represented the Zimbabwe under-19s at the 1998 Under-19 World Cup in South Africa, playing in all six of his team's matches. He scored 147 runs in total (behind only

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and

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for Zimbabwe), with his highest score being 67 from 32 balls in an upset win against the

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. He was less successful as a bowler, taking just one wicket from 27 overes. After studying at the

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in South Africa for three years, Barrett returned to Zimbabwe in 2002 and made his first-class debut, playing for

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in the 2001–02 Logan Cup. On debut against

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, he came in eighth in the batting order and scored 106 runs from 57 balls, which including eleven

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s and seven

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. He also made 80 from 63 balls in the second innings, adding another six sixes as his team won by 149 runs. Barrett never re-captured the form of his debut, but maintained a

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of 140.09 from his four-match first-class career. He made limited-overs appearances for

and

Mashonaland Mashonaland is a region in northern Zimbabwe. Currently, Mashonaland is divided into four provinces, * Mashonaland West * Mashonaland Central * Mashonaland East * Harare The Zimbabwean capital of Harare, a province unto itself, lies entirely ...

(during the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, respectively), but made only 78 runs from six matches.List A matches played by Glen Barrett
CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2016. Later in life, he moved to Melbourne, Australia and pursued his first love, pole vault. After excelling at high school and holding the Zimbabwe Junior national record of 4.20m, he went on to hold the Zimbabwe men's national record of 4.56m from 2009 to 2017 when it was broken by Keegan Cooke.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barrett, Glen 1979 births Living people CFX Academy cricketers Manicaland cricketers Mashonaland cricketers Cricketers from Harare University of Cape Town alumni Zimbabwean cricketers White Zimbabwean sportspeople Alumni of Falcon College Alumni of St. John's College (Harare) Alumni of St. George's College, Harare