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Steve Paulsen

cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ46738406
Source-derived summary

Steven James Paulsen (born 3 September 1981) is an Australian cricketer who played for Queensland between the 2005/06 and 2011/12 seasons. He also played for Brisbane Heat franchise at the 2011–12 Big Bash League season

Steve Paulsen was a member of the Australian cricket team at the 2012 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes. He also scored an unbeaten knock of 35 runs to secure a win for Australia in the plate cup final against Netherlands at the 2012 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes.

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2005, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-09-03. For this dossier, Steve, Paulsen and cricketer is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q46738406. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2005, 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Steve Paulsen” 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.