Burt Cockley
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Burt Cockley is an Australian
cricketer
who currently plays for the New South Wales Blues
. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.
Raised in Newcastle, NSW, Burt attended school at Callaghan College. As a young cricketer Burt played for the Waratah-Mayfield District Cricket Club. At the age of 17 he made his 1st Grade debut for Waratah-Mayfield. After being selected in the NSW Country Colts and NSW Country sides, Burt moved to Sydney to play for Randwick-Petersham in the Sydney Grade Cricket Competition
.
After only one season in Sydney, Burt was picked for the NSW State side. He debuted in 1st Class cricket for NSW against Tasmania at Hobart in the 2007/08 season. In February 2009 he was selected by the Kings XI Punjab
franchise of the Indian Premier League
for the 2009 season and in November 2009 he was added to Australia's injury-ravaged squad in India, as a replacement for Peter Siddle
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
who currently plays for the New South Wales Blues
New South Wales Blues
The New South Wales cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales...
. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.
Raised in Newcastle, NSW, Burt attended school at Callaghan College. As a young cricketer Burt played for the Waratah-Mayfield District Cricket Club. At the age of 17 he made his 1st Grade debut for Waratah-Mayfield. After being selected in the NSW Country Colts and NSW Country sides, Burt moved to Sydney to play for Randwick-Petersham in the Sydney Grade Cricket Competition
Sydney Grade Cricket
Sydney Grade Cricket is a cricket competition played in Sydney, Australia. The competition began in 1893 when a number of clubs, which had been playing for many years on an ad hoc basis, voted to create a formal competition structure....
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After only one season in Sydney, Burt was picked for the NSW State side. He debuted in 1st Class cricket for NSW against Tasmania at Hobart in the 2007/08 season. In February 2009 he was selected by the Kings XI Punjab
Kings XI Punjab
Kings XI Punjab is a cricket franchise based in Mohali, Punjab in the Indian Premier League. For the IPL3, an additional venue has been chosen at Dharamsala.-Franchise History:...
franchise of the Indian Premier League
Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...
for the 2009 season and in November 2009 he was added to Australia's injury-ravaged squad in India, as a replacement for Peter Siddle
Peter Siddle
Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...
.