Alana King
_(cropped).jpg) King playing for Western Australia in 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Alana Maria King | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 November 1995 Clarinda, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 181) | 27 January 2022 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 21 December 2023 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 147) | 3 February 2022 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 7 February 2024 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 57) | 20 January 2022 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 18 February 2023 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015/16–2020/21 | Melbourne Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016/17–2019/20 | Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020/21–present | Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021/22–present | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Supernovas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–present | Trent Rockets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alana Maria King (born 22 November 1995) is an Australian international cricketer. She plays for Western Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Perth Scorchers in the Women's Big Bash League.[1][2]
Life
[change | change source]King was born in Clarinda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Her family is Anglo-Indian. Both of her parents moved from Chennai (the capital city of Tamil Nadu) in India to Melbourne.[3][4][5]
King became interested in cricket like her brother. She tried other sports like tennis, softball, and baseball. Tennis was the first sport she liked. She started playing tennis when she was five years old. She played in the Tennis Victoria Pennant, which is the biggest tennis competition between clubs in Australia.[6]
In 2011, she worked as a ball kid at the women's singles final of the Australian Open.[7] She also played on her school’s softball team and for the Monash University Baseball Club.[6]
Career
[change | change source]Career in Australia
[change | change source]King started playing for Victoria in 2012 when she was 16. She got her first rookie contract with the team called VicSpirit. In 2015, she joined the Melbourne Stars for the first season of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). In 2016, she became part of the senior Victoria cricket team.[6]
In the 2021–22 WBBL season, King did very well. She took 16 wickets and was the fifth-highest wicket-taker of the season.[8][9]
International career
[change | change source]In April 2019, Cricket Australia gave King a contract to join the National Performance Squad.[10][11]
In January 2022, King was picked to play for Australia in a series against England called the Women's Ashes.[12] She was chosen to replace injured players Georgia Wareham and Sophie Molineux. She was also picked ahead of Amanda-Jade Wellington, who played for the Australia A team instead.[13][14]
She was named in Australia's team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England in May 2022.[15]
She was also picked to play for Australia in the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup and the 2025 Women’s Ashes series.[16][17][18]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Western Australia". WACA. Cricket Network. Archived from the original on 25 March 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ↑ "Players". Perth Scorchers. Cricket Network. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ↑ Burnett, Adam (5 June 2019). "King of the world: Ace leggie dreams big". cricket.com.au. Cricket Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ↑ "Get to know Australian spin queen Alana King". ICC Cricket. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ↑ Nagi, Priya (May 23, 2022). "King of the world: Indian-origin leg-spinner Alana returns to roots to play Women's T20 Challenge". India Today. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Alana King is on the fast track to becoming an idol". ESPNcricinfo. 14 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ↑ "Alana, the Queen of Kings". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ↑ "Women's Big Bash League, 2021/22 Cricket Team Records & Stats". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ↑ "Alana King's move west pays dividends with gains on and off the field". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ↑ "Georgia Wareham handed first full Cricket Australia contract". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ↑ "Georgia Wareham included in Australia's 2019-20 contracts list". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ↑ "Alana King beats Amanda-Jade Wellington to place in Australia's Ashes squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ↑ "Australia name uncapped Alana King in women's Ashes squad". The Guardian. Australian Associated Press. 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ↑ Ballal, Juili (2022-01-12). "Why was Alana King picked over Amanda Jade Wellington for Ashes 2021-22?". Female Cricket. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ↑ "Aussies unchanged in quest for Comm Games gold". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ↑ "Brown returns but no room for Jonassen in World Cup squad". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ↑ "Molineux faces surgery as Aussies reveal Ashes squad". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ↑ "Australian squad announced for historic CommBank Women's Ashes". Cricket World. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
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