Wil Brian Parker (born 29 May 2002) 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 2019âÂÂ20 Sheffield Shield season. He became the fourth-youngest cricketer to make their first-class debut for Victoria. His uncle, Geoff Parker, also played first-class cricket for Victoria.
In June 2020, Parker signed a professional contract with Victoria for the 2020âÂÂ21 domestic season, opting to play cricket instead of Australian rules football, where he was touted as a potential early draft selection. He made his Twenty20 debut on 27 December 2020, for the Hobart Hurricanes, in the 2020âÂÂ21 Big Bash League season. He made his List A debut on 10 March 2021, for Victoria in the 2020âÂÂ21 Marsh One-Day Cup. At the end of the 2023-24 Sheffield Shield season and 2023âÂÂ24 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 as a Category B Rookie. He made his debut against Fremantle in round 11.
Updated to the end of round 3, 2026.
|- | 2024 || || 45 | 5 || 1 || 0 || 24 || 18 || 42 || 6 || 12 || 0.2 || 0.0 || 4.8 || 3.6 || 8.4 || 1.2 || 2.4 || 0 |- | 2025 || || 15 | 4 || 0 || 0 || 24 || 10 || 34 || 13 || 7 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 6.0 || 2.5 || 8.5 || 3.3 || 1.8 || 0 |- | 2026 || || 15 | 2 || 0 || 0 || 11 || 9 || 20 || 3 || 0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 5.5 || 4.5 || 10.0 || 1.5 || 0.0 || |- class=sortbottom ! colspan=3 | Career ! 11 !! 1 !! 0 !! 59 !! 37 !! 96 !! 22 !! 19 !! 0.1 !! 0.0 !! 5.4 !! 3.4 !! 8.7 !! 2.0 !! 1.7 !! 0