Brenton Parchment
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Brenton Anthony Parchment (born 24 June 1982) is a West Indian cricket
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...

er. Born in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, he was the West Indies Under-19 captain to England
England
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 in 2001. This team was the only West Indies Under-19 team to beat England at home.
In 2003, the Jamaican cricketer was given the award for Most Disciplined Student at the West Indies Cricket Academy.

Parchment currently plays first-class and List A cricket for Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

. As well as this, he plays as a professional for English cricket clubs. He was the professional cricketer for Middlesbrough Cricket Club in 2003–04. During his first season with them, they won the Cup. In 2005 he was the professional for Farnworth Cricket Club. He helped them to win both the League and Cup in the Bolton League, and to honour him they named the club's games room after him. In 2010 he played for Blackrod Cricket Club in the Bolton Association and broke the clubs highest score record on his debut with 184*.

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