Simon Charles Corlett (born 18 January 1950
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er. Corlett attended Worksop College, a public school in North Nottinghamshire, and Exeter College, Oxford. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler with a right arm off spin, he made his debut for

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in a match against the

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in June 1974, and went on to play for Ireland on 73 occasions, his last match coming in August 1987 against

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/ref> Of his matches for Ireland, fifteen had first-class statusFirst-class matches played by Simon Corlett at Cricket Archive
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status.List A matches played by Simon Corlett
/ref> Of the first-class matches he played for Ireland, all but one was against Scotland, the other coming against

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. Prior to his international career for Ireland, he played for

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, playing 18 first-class matches for them. He later served as president of the

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in 2003.

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