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Full name | Alana Maria King | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Clarinda, Victoria, Australia | 22 November 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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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Source: CricketArchive, 18 February 2024 |
Alana Maria King (born 22 November 1995) is an Australian international cricketer. She also plays domestic cricket for Western Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Perth Scorchers in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). [1] [2] An all-rounder, she bowls right-arm leg spin and bats right-handed. [3] She previously played for Victoria and Melbourne Stars. [4] [5]
King was born in Clarinda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. She is of Anglo-Indian descent, her parents both having emigrated from Chennai (the capital of Tamil Nadu, India) to Melbourne. [6] [7] [8] King followed her brother's footsteps by pursuing an interest in cricket after trying out different sports such as tennis, softball and baseball. Tennis was her first sport of choice as she took up the tennis racquet at the age of five and competed in the Tennis Victoria Pennant which was the largest tennis inter-club representative competition in Australia. [9] She also served as a ball kid during the women's singles final of the 2011 Australian Open. [10] She also had a brief stint with her school softball team and also turned up for Monash University Baseball Club. [9]
King was handed her first rookie contract at the age of 16 in 2012 with VicSpirit in the Women's National Cricket League and three years later down the line, she bagged a surprise call-up to Melbourne Stars for the inaugural edition of the WBBL in 2015–2016 season. She leapfrogged into the senior Victoria squad in 2016. [9]
She also had a successful 2021–22 Women's Big Bash League season by emerging as the joint fifth highest wicket-taker in the season with 16 scalps. [11] [12]
In April 2022, King was bought by the Trent Rockets for the 2022 season of The Hundred in England. [13] On 13 August 2022, during a group stage match between Trent Rockets and Manchester Originals, she claimed a hat-trick against Manchester Originals and became the first woman to take a hat-trick in The Hundred. [14] [15] [16] [17]
In the same month, during a group stage match between Oval Invincibles and Trent Rockets at the 2022 Hundred edition, King achieved a unique feat by delivering 10 consecutive dot balls to become the first player to achieve the milestone in the history of The Hundred. [18]
In April 2019, Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract with the National Performance Squad ahead of the 2019–20 season. [19] [20]
In January 2022, King was named in Australia's squad for their series against England to contest the Women's Ashes. [21] She was included in Ashes squad as replacement to injured Georgia Wareham and Sophie Molineux but she was picked up in the squad over Amanda-Jade Wellington as a surprise package with selectors opted to leave out Amanda-Jade Wellington in order to allow her play for Australia A team. [22] [23] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut on 20 January 2022, for Australia against England. [24] Later the same month, she was named in Australia's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. [25] [26]
She made her Women's Test match debut on 27 January 2022, for Australia against England in the one-off Women's Ashes Test. [27] She made her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut on 3 February 2022, also for Australia against England in the Women's Ashes. [28] Therefore, she earned her first cap in all three formats of international cricket in the space of fourteen days. [29] In April 2022, she received her first contract with Cricket Australia after her splendid performances with the ball throughout the cricket summer. [30]
She was the second highest wicket-taker for Australia during the successful 2022 World Cup campaign for the Aussies as she picked up 12 wickets in the tournament at 24.50 in nine matches including a spell of 3 for 64 against England in the all important final. [31] [32] She was also the fourth joint highest wicket-taker during the tournament in what is considered to be a career defining performance for her which would later make her first-choice player in the Australian team. [33]
In May 2022, King was named in Australia's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. [34]
In January 2023, King was named in the Australian team for the 2023 Women's T20 World cup. [35]
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