Career
He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Durham. Birbeck"s first-class career began in 1994, having represented the team in the Second XI Championship the previous year. He scored six runs from a grinding 46-ball spell, in mostly appalling weather conditions.
Birbeck made three further appearances in the County Championship in the 1995 season, and while Durham finished second-bottom in the County Championship that season, Birbeck made just one further appearance in the competition, in the following season.
Birbeck appeared three times in the National Westminster Trophy in each of the 1999 and 2000 seasons, In 2006, Birbeck made nineteen appearances for Hetton Lyons in the Northern Rock North East Premier League, his first cricketing appearances since the 2000 National Westminster Trophy competition. Birbeck was a lower-order batsman and an occasional bowler, with one half-century in both first-class and one-day cricket to his name.
