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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Australian cricketer}}<br />
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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Travis Birt<br />
| image = Tasmanian Cricketer Travis Birt - NSW v Tasmania, Hurstville Oval. Saturday 29 November 2008..jpg<br />
| country = Australia<br />
| full_name = Travis Rodney Birt<br />
| nickname = Edgar, Turtle, Ernie<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|12|9|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Sale, Victoria|Sale]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia<br />
| heightm = 1.78<br />
| batting = Left-handed<br />
| bowling = Right-arm medium<br />
| role = [[Batting order (cricket)#Middle order|Middle-order batter]]<br />
| international = true<br />
| internationalspan = 2010–2012<br />
| T20Idebutdate = 5 February<br />
| T20Idebutyear = 2010<br />
| T20Idebutagainst = Pakistan<br />
| T20Icap = 42<br />
| lastT20Idate = 3 February<br />
| lastT20Iyear = 2012<br />
| lastT20Iagainst = India<br />
| club1 = [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]]<br />
| year1 = {{nowrap|2003/04–2010/11}}<br />
| club2 = [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]]<br />
| year2 = 2006–2007<br />
| club3 = [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington]]<br />
| year3 = 2010/11–2013/14<br />
| club4 = [[Delhi Daredevils]]<br />
| year4 = 2011<br />
| club5 = [[Western Warriors|Western Australia]]<br />
| year5 = 2011/12–2012/13<br />
| club6 = [[Hobart Hurricanes]]<br />
| year6 = 2011/12–2014/15<br />
| club7 = [[Nagenahira Nagas]]<br />
| year7 = 2012<br />
| club8 = [[Khulna Royal Bengals]]<br />
| year8 = 2013<br />
| club9 = [[Northern Districts men's cricket team|Northern Districts]]<br />
| year9 = 2014/15<br />
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| columns = 4<br />
| column1 = [[Twenty20 International|T20I]]<br />
| matches1 = 4<br />
| runs1 = 31<br />
| bat avg1 = 10.33 <br />
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0<br />
| top score1 = 17<br />
| deliveries1 = –<br />
| wickets1 = –<br />
| bowl avg1 = –<br />
| fivefor1 = –<br />
| tenfor1 = –<br />
| best bowling1 = –<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–<br />
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]<br />
| matches2 = 88<br />
| runs2 = 5,223<br />
| bat avg2 = 34.58 <br />
| 100s/50s2 = 9/32<br />
| top score2 = 181<br />
| deliveries2 = 220<br />
| wickets2 = 2<br />
| bowl avg2 = 98.00<br />
| fivefor2 = 0<br />
| tenfor2 = 0<br />
| best bowling2 = 1/24<br />
| catches/stumpings2 = 62/–<br />
| column3 = [[List A cricket|LA]]<br />
| matches3 = 119<br />
| runs3 = 3,222<br />
| bat avg3 = 30.39<br />
| 100s/50s3 = 2/21<br />
| top score3 = 145<br />
| deliveries3 = 91<br />
| wickets3 = 5<br />
| bowl avg3 = 17.80<br />
| fivefor3 = 0<br />
| tenfor3 = 0<br />
| best bowling3 = 2/15<br />
| catches/stumpings3 = 42/1<br />
| column4 = [[Twenty20 cricket|T20]]<br />
| matches4 = 109<br />
| runs4 = 2,188<br />
| bat avg4 = 22.79 <br />
| 100s/50s4 = 0/9<br />
| top score4 = 94[[not out|*]]<br />
| deliveries4 = –<br />
| wickets4 = –<br />
| bowl avg4 = –<br />
| fivefor4 = –<br />
| tenfor4 = –<br />
| best bowling4 = –<br />
| catches/stumpings4 = 41/–<br />
| date = 29 January<br />
| year = 2019<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4292.html ESPNcricinfo<br />
}}<br />
'''Travis Rodney Birt''' (born 9 December 1981) is an Australian former [[cricket]]er. A left-handed batsman, Birt represented the [[Australia Under-19 cricket team|Australian national under-19 team]] before making his debut for [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]] during the 2003–04 season. Strong form at state level led to his selection for [[Australia A cricket team|Australia A]] during the 2006 off-season, as well as a two-year stint with [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] in English county cricket. Birt transferred to [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]] for the 2011–12 season, but has found more success in the [[Twenty20 cricket|Twenty20]] format, variously representing the [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington Firebirds]], [[Delhi Daredevils]], [[Nagenahira Nagas]], and [[Khulna Royal Bengals]] in New Zealand, Indian, Sri Lankan, and Bangladeshi domestic tournaments, respectively. Birt made his [[Twenty20 International]] debut for [[Australia national cricket team|Australia]] in February 2010, and played a total of four matches for the team, with his last international match coming in February 2012.<br />
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In December 2015 Travis Birt was selected in the Perth Scorchers squad against [[Brisbane Heat]] in BBL 5. He was selected as a local replacement player for Nathan Coulter-Nile.<br />
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==Early cricket career==<br />
Birt secured a reputation for brutal strokeplay when he posted 145 against [[South Australia Redbacks|South Australia]] in 2004–05, the highest score in Tasmania's one-day history. He made his first-class debut in the same season but had to wait until the following year to feel at ease at the next level. After an outstanding 2005–06 season in which he was selected for the [[Australia A cricket team]], Birt produced a couple of consistent if unexceptional seasons for Tasmania. His main problem has been an inability to turn starts into first-class centuries. In 2006–07 he was part of Tasmania's triumphant [[Pura Cup]] team and made 736 runs at 38.73 with one hundred, and the next season he collected 565 runs at 31.38 without once reaching triple-figures. <br />
A former Academy and [[Australia national under-19 cricket team|Australia Under-19]] player who relocated from country [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Birt has spent time playing with [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] but did not return there in 2008 and instead had hip surgery during the off-season.<br />
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==International debut==<br />
On 5 February 2010, Birt made his Twenty20 International, and subsequent international debut for Australia, against [[Pakistani national cricket team|Pakistan]] at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]]. He failed to make an impact, scoring only one run before being bowled by acting Pakistani captain [[Shoaib Malik]]. Birt was retained in the team for the second and final Twenty20 match at [[Bellerive Oval]] in [[Hobart]]—his home ground. However, he could only manage 13 from ten balls, as Australia completed a 2–0 sweep.<br />
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Despite being dropped for the First Twenty20 International against New Zealand in Wellington, Birt was recalled for the second match where he did not bat. At the end of both innings' the scores were tied, before New Zealand won courtesy of a super-over, levelling the series 1–1.<br />
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==Move to Western Australia==<br />
In 2011, Birt moved to Western Australia.<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/520067.html Birt moves to WA]</ref> He had also signed up to play for the [[Hobart Hurricanes]] in the [[Big Bash League]].<br />
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In 2015 Birt was given a BBL recall after a few strong performances in the [[Western Australian Cricket Association|WACA]] statewide 20/20 competition for Claremont Nedlands Cricket Club. In the second round of the qualifying Birt hit 136 off just 53 deliveries as Claremont Nedlands defeated Scarborough by 104 runs with a team that included [[Andrew Tye]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Stubbs|first=Brett|title=Birt blows in for Big Bash|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2011/07/04/242931_cricket.html|accessdate=4 July 2011|newspaper=The Mercury}}</ref><br />
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==Career highlights==<br />
In 2012, in the KFC Big Bash match between Hobart Hurricanes and Melbourne Stars, Birt scored the fastest 50 in Australian Domestic T20 Cricket. In this match, Birt struck 50 runs off 22 balls, eclipsing the mark set earlier in the same match by Luke Wright of the Melbourne Stars who scored 50 runs off 23 balls.<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/big-bash-league-2011/content/story/548684.html Fastest BBL ton at the Wright time for Stars]</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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