| Wil Parker | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Wil Brian Parker | ||
| Date of birth | 29 May 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Croydon, Victoria, Australia | ||
| Original team(s) | Eastern Ranges (Talent League) | ||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Collingwood | ||
| Number | 15 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2024– | Collingwood | 5 (1) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2024 season. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
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| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Geoff Parker (uncle) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019/20–2023/24 | Victoria (squad no. 8) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020/21–2022/23 | Hobart Hurricanes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,4 April 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wil Brian Parker (born 29 May 2002) [1] is a professional Australian rules football player who currently plays for the Collingwood Football Club,and a former domestic cricketer who played for the Victoria cricket team and the Hobart Hurricanes.
Parker made his first-class debut on 14 February 2020,for Victoria in the 2019–20 Sheffield Shield season. [2] [3] He became the fourth-youngest cricketer to make their first-class debut for Victoria. [4] His uncle,Geoff Parker,also played first-class cricket for Victoria. [5]
In June 2020,Parker signed a professional contract with Victoria for the 2020–21 domestic season,opting to play cricket instead of Australian rules football,where he was touted as a potential early draft selection. [6] He made his Twenty20 debut on 27 December 2020,for the Hobart Hurricanes,in the 2020–21 Big Bash League season. [7] He made his List A debut on 10 March 2021,for Victoria in the 2020–21 Marsh One-Day Cup. [8] At the end of the 2023-24 Sheffield Shield season and 2023–24 Marsh One-Day Cup he gave up his contract with Cricket Victoria to return to Australian rules football.
For Victoria he played 4 First-Class games,taking 6 wickets at an average of 32 and scoring 4 runs in 2 innings at an average of 2. Parker also represented Victoria in a solitary one-day match,taking 1 wicket for 44 and scoring 7 runs. In T20 cricket he played 9 games,taking 1 wicket for the cost of 185 runs and scoring 47 runs in 6 innings (with a high score of 25 against the Perth Scorchers in December 2021) at an average of 11.75.
For the 2024 AFL season,Parker signed with the Collingwood Football Club [9] as a Category B Rookie. He made his debut against Fremantle in round 11. [10]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | ||||||||||||
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| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | ||||
| 2024 | Collingwood | 45 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 18 | 42 | 6 | 12 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 8.4 | 1.2 | 2.4 |
| Career | 5 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 18 | 42 | 6 | 12 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 8.4 | 1.2 | 2.4 | ||
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