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Simon Barrett (cricketer)

English cricketer (born 1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7518231 ↗
Source-derived summary

Simon Barrett (born 1988) is an English cricketer. As a right handed batsman, he played for Leeds/Bradford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence. On his debut in first-class cricket, he scored 168 as opening batsman, versus Derbyshire.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Simon Barrett (cricketer)” is english cricketer (born 1988). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Simon, Barrett and cricketer, 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—1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-09-14. For this dossier, Simon, Barrett and cricketer is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7518231. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Simon Barrett (cricketer)” 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.