Brett Lee is an Australian former international cricketer,who played all three formats of the game. During his international career,Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in the world. With his time representing Australia,Lee won multiple ICC titles with the team:the 2003 Cricket World Cup,the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy,and the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. Lee was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in the T20 format of the game which he did in 2007 ICC World Twenty20 in the inaugural tournament against Bangladesh,subsequently being the first bowler to do so at an ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Lee was also the first Australian bowler to take a hat-trick at a Cricket World Cup which he did in the 2003 Cricket World Cup Super Match game against Kenya.
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.
Ashley Alexander Mallett was an Australian cricketer who played in 38 Tests and 9 One Day Internationals between 1968 and 1980. Until Nathan Lyon,he was Australia's most successful off spin bowler since World War II. He extracted a lot of bounce from his high arm action,coupled with his height. He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
Murray John Bennett is a former Australian cricketer who played in three Test matches and eight One Day Internationals in 1984 and 1985.
Moisés Constantino Henriques is an Australian international cricketer who plays for Australia,New South Wales and the Sydney Sixers. An all-rounder,he is the first cricketer born in Portugal to play for Australia in an international match.
Stephen Norman John O'Keefe is a former Australian cricketer who played for the Australian national team in Test matches and Twenty20 Internationals,and a commentator for SEN and Nine. O'Keefe was formerly the captain of the New South Wales Sheffield Shield team.
Sam David Robson is an Australian-born English cricketer who plays for Middlesex County Cricket Club.
Michael Roy Whitney is a retired Australian television personality and former cricketer,who played in 12 Test matches and 38 One Day Internationals between 1981 and 1993.
Nathan Michael Lyon is an Australian international cricketer. He made his Test debut in 2011 and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales. Lyon is an off spin bowler and a lower-order right-handed batsman. Considered the most successful off-spin bowler of all time for Australia,Lyon holds the record for the most Test wickets taken by an Australian off-spin bowler,passing Hugh Trumble's 141 wickets in 2015. In January 2021,Lyon played in his 100th Test match during Australia's series against India. As of December 2023,Lyon is Australia's third highest test wicket taker of all time and ranks eighth among all international players in test cricket with over 500 wickets to his name. Lyon was a member of the Australian team that won the 2023 ICC World Test Championship final.
Peter Michael Nevill is an Australian former cricketer who played 17 Tests and 9 T20 internationals for Australia. He also represented New South Wales and the Melbourne Stars,having previously played for the Melbourne Renegades and the Sydney Sixers. He was Australia's regular Test wicket-keeper from the second test of 2015 Ashes series until being dropped in November 2016. He made his Twenty20 International debut for Australia against South Africa on 4 March 2016. He retired in April 2022.
Jackson Munro Bird is an Australian international cricketer. He has played for Australia in the past and currently plays first-class cricket for New South Wales. Bird is a fast-medium bowler. He is originally from Sydney and was educated at Saint Ignatius' College,Riverview and St Pius X College,Chatswood. Bird left the Manly club to further his career with the Tasmanian Tigers in the 2011–2012 season.
Kurtis Robert Patterson is an Australian cricketer who plays for the New South Wales cricket team in the Sheffield Shield,and the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League. Patterson scored a century on his first-class cricket debut for New South Wales in November 2011,becoming the youngest batsman to score a century in Sheffield Shield cricket. In January 2019,he made his Test debut for Australia against Sri Lanka,becoming the 457th person to play test cricket for Australia. He made a century in just his second test match in Canberra,also against Sri Lanka. He was not selected for the 2019 Ashes series and returned to play domestically in the 2019/2020 season. He has the highest average of any Test batsman who has lost their wicket at least once.
Ashton Charles Agar is an Australian cricketer who plays all forms of the game at international level. Agar plays domestically for Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers. A left-handed spin bowler,he played two Test matches for the Australian national side during the 2013 Ashes series and 5 Test matches in his career. Agar was also a member of the Australian team that won the 2021 T20 World Cup in Dubai and Oman.
Jhye Avon Richardson is an Australian cricketer. He made his debut in domestic cricket in October 2015,and made his international debut for the Australia national cricket team in February 2017.
Nathan John McAndrew is an Australian cricketer. A medium-fast bowler,McAndrew was called into the Sydney Thunder squad for BBL|05,where the Sydney Thunder would ultimately win the championship. He made his Twenty20 debut on 16 January 2016 against the Sydney Sixers.
William Jan Pucovski is an Australian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Cricket Australia XI against Pakistan during their tour of Australia on 10 January 2017. He made his first-class debut for Victoria in the 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season on 1 February 2017. Pucovski made his international debut for the Australia cricket team on 7 January 2021,in the third Test match of the series against India.
The 2017–18 Sheffield Shield season was the 116th season of the Sheffield Shield,the domestic first-class cricket competition in Australia. It started on 26 October 2017 and finished on 27 March 2018. The opening round of matches were played as day/night fixtures and the first three rounds of matches took place before the Ashes series. Victoria were the defending champions.
Lawrence Neil-Smith is an Australian cricketer. He is a right arm fast-medium bowler and batter. In May 2018,he signed a two-year rookie contract with Tasmania ahead of the 2018–19 season. He made his first-class debut on 10 October 2019,for Tasmania in the 2019–20 Sheffield Shield season and was upgraded to a two-year full contract. In September 2018,he was named in the Hobart Hurricanes' squad for the 2018 Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut for the Hobart Hurricanes in the 2018 Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy on 5 October 2018.
Tanveer Singh Sangha is an Australian cricketer who plays for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League (BBL). He bowls right arm leg spin and bats right-handed. He was Australia’s leading wicket taker at the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup,claiming 15 wickets.
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. He was a member of the Australian team that won the 2023 ICC World Test Championship final.
