Kieran Noema-Barnett, born 4 June 1987 in Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

, is a New Zealand 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. He played in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup

2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup

The 2006 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was played in Sri Lanka from February 5 to February 19, 2006.The final was played between Pakistan and India in Colombo, which Pakistan won by 38 runs, enabling them to become the first back-to-back champions of the tournament.- Participating Nations :Sixteen...

 in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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 and for Otago

Otago Volts

The Otago Volts are a first class cricket team representing the Otago Cricket Association, one of six major associations that make up New Zealand Cricket....

 in the Twenty20 competition in the 2006-07. He has played both first-class

First-class cricket

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 and List A cricket for Central Districts

Central Districts Stags

The Central Districts Stags are a New Zealand first class cricket team based in central New Zealand. It competes in the State Championship first class competition and the State Shield domestic one day competition...

.

He has played club cricket in the UK for the past two seasons, for Old Paulines Cricket Club and for Pyrford Cricket Club.

On December 12, 2010, playing for the Central Stags, he scored the fastest half century in New Zealand 20/20 history, taking just 14 balls to reach 50, against Otago in Invercargill. On his way to 50 Noema-Barnett hit three fours and six sixes.

Barney spent two seasons in Ireland with CSNICC. He was considered the best overseas player in the league and in his time smashed his way to 192 against Glendermott. :)