He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Devon. Barrett began his career playing with Glamorgan Colts and Glamorgan Under-19s between 1992 and 1993, and played for the Second XIs of Essex, Surrey, and Somerset between 1995 and 2000. This included spending two seasons (1999 and 2000) on the Surrey Corpus Christi College playing staff
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Barrett"s debut List A appearance came in the 1998 National Westminster Trophy against Yorkshire, against whom he scored three runs. Barrett made his second and final List A appearance four years later, in the 2002 C&G Trophy, against Yorkshire, in which he scored 6 runs.
