Ian Michael Chappell is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. He captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before taking a central role in the breakaway World Series Cricket organisation. Born into a cricketing family—his grandfather and brother also captained Australia—Chappell made a hesitant start to international cricket playing as a right-hand middle-order batsman and spin bowler. He found his niche when promoted to bat at number three. Known as "Chappelli",he earned a reputation as one of the greatest captains the game has seen. Chappell's blunt verbal manner led to a series of confrontations with opposition players and cricket administrators;the issue of sledging first arose during his tenure as captain,and he was a driving force behind the professionalisation of Australian cricket in the 1970s.
Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill is an Australian former cricketer who played 44 Test matches and three One Day Internationals for the Australian national cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin bowler,who has been credited with having the best strike rate of any modern leg-spin bowler,but he did not have a regular place in the Australian Test team due to the dominance of Shane Warne in the position of sole spinner.
Darren Scott Lehmann is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer who coached the Australian national team. Lehmann made his ODI debut in 1996 and Test debut in 1998. He was on the fringes of national selection for the entirety of the 1990s,and only became a regular in the ODI team in 2001 and Test team in late 2002,before being dropped in early 2005. Primarily an aggressive left-handed batsman,Lehmann was also a part-time left arm orthodox bowler,and gained renown for his disregard for physical fitness and modern dietary regimes. He announced his retirement from first-class cricket in November 2007. Lehmann was a member of the Australian team that won the 1999 Cricket World Cup and the 2003 Cricket World Cup,where in the 1999 final,he scored the winning boundary,and took the winning catch in the 2003 final.
The Western Australian men’s cricket team,formerly nicknamed the Western Warriors,represent the Australian state of Western Australia in Australian domestic cricket. The team is selected and supported by the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA),and plays its home games at the WACA Ground and Perth Stadium in Perth. The team mainly plays matches against other Australian states in the first-class Sheffield Shield competition and the limited-overs JLT One-Day Cup,but occasionally plays matches against touring international sides. Western Australia previously also fielded sides at Twenty20 level,but was replaced by the Perth Scorchers for the inaugural 2011–12 season of the Big Bash League. Western Australia's current captain is Mitchell Marsh,and the current coach is Adam Voges.
Nathan Michael Hauritz is a former Australian cricketer who has represented Australia in Tests,One-dayers and Twenty20 Internationals. He is mainly noted for his off spin bowling.
Darren Shane Berry is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer who was known for his sharp skills as a wicketkeeper,first with South Australia and then Victoria in the Sheffield Shield and ING Cup domestic competitions. He led the Redbacks to the first premiership win in 2010 of the BBL.
Andrew Mark Jefferson Hilditch is a former Australian international cricketer who played in 18 Test matches and eight One Day Internationals from 1979 to 1985. He played for New South Wales from 1977 to 1981 and for South Australia from 1982 to 1992. He was an Australian cricket selector from 1996 until 2011.
Robert James Cassell is an Australian cricketer and international coach who played first-class cricket for the Victorian Bushrangers and South Australian Redbacks and also represented Australia in the 2002 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.
Jack Potter is an Australian former cricketer who played 81 matches for Victoria. He also represented Australia,although never in a Test.
Cameron John Boyce is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-arm leg break bowler who has played for several domestic teams in Australia and has appeared in seven T20I matches for the Australian cricket team.
Adam Zampa is an Australian international cricketer who represents Australian cricket team in limited-overs cricket. Zampa was a member of the Australian team that won the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Beau Webster is an Australian cricketer who currently represents Tasmania and the Melbourne Stars. An allrounder,Webster is a right-handed batsman capable of bowling both right-arm medium and off spin.
Jake Scott Lehmann is an Australian cricketer who plays for South Australia. He is the eldest son of former Australian coach Darren Lehmann. Well known for his moustache,Lehmann began his first-class career in the 2014–15 season and enjoyed early success,scoring a double century in his second season. He began playing for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League in 2015 and hit a match-winning six against the Hobart Hurricanes in the first ball of his career and the last ball of the innings.
Liam O'Connor is an Australian cricketer. He was previously contracted with the Western Warriors,Western Australia's state team,but initially he did not play any first-class or List A matches for the state. Since 2016,he has played for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League,being brought into the squad for BBL|06 as an injury replacement,winning the tournament with the team in BBL|07. In 2019,he made his first-class and List A debuts for Western Australia.
Lloyd Pope is an Australian cricketer who currently represents South Australia. In August 2017,he was offered a rookie contract with South Australia.
Benjamin Andrew Davey Manenti is an Australian cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off spin. He has played for Tasmania,South Australia,the Sydney Sixers,and the Adelaide Strikers. He has also represented the Italy national cricket team,qualifying as a citizen by descent.
David Edward Pritchard was an Australian cricketer. He played forty-nine first-class matches for South Australia between 1918/19 and 1931/32,captaining the state in two of them. He played for Port Adelaide Cricket Club in district cricket from 1910 to 1935/36 and captained them from 1922 to 1927.
The 2020–21 Sheffield Shield season was the 119th season of the Sheffield Shield,the domestic first-class cricket competition in Australia. On 26 June 2020,Cricket Australia confirmed all the squads for the 2020–21 domestic cricket season. Cricket Australia also confirmed that the tournament would use the Kookaburra ball for all the matches,after using the Duke ball since the 2016–17 season. New South Wales were the defending champions.
Peter Hatzoglou is an Australian cricketer. Hatzoglou was born in Perth,Western Australia,to a father whose family came from Kozani in Greece,and a mother from North Macedonia. He is known for his idiosyncratic bowling action,ability to bowl topspinners,sliders and googlies as well as the ability to bowl from a high release point at high pace.
Todd Raymond Murphy is an Australian cricketer. A right-arm off spin bowler,Murphy made his first-class debut for Victoria in April 2021 and his Test debut for Australia in February 2023.
