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Dylan McLachlan

Australian cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ125403312
Source-derived summary

Dylan Peter McLachlan (born 14 January 1999) is an Australian cricketer who is contracted to Queensland. He is a wicket-keeper batsman, who plays for Queensland cricket team in domestic cricket. He played club cricket for Valley District Cricket Club. He made his List A debut for Queensland on 14 February 2024, against South Australia in the 2023–24 Marsh One-Day Cup. A former student of Marist College Ashgrove, he is the first Indigenous player to represent Queensland since Brendan Doggett and Mikayla Hinkley.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dylan McLachlan” is australian cricketer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dylan, McLachlan and Australian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2024, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-01-01. For this dossier, Dylan, McLachlan and Australian is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Dylan McLachlan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.