Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	26	198	227	424
Runs scored	1,462	5,088	14,477	11,099
Batting average	40.61	39.75	42.20	34.04
100s/50s	2/10	6/30	40/65	9/64
Top score	162*	156	254*	156
Balls bowled	2,094	5,935	17,633	11,713
Wickets	24	133	242	282
Bowling average	37.33	37.25	36.00	33.25
5 wickets in innings	0	1	2	4
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	3/50	5/18	6/105	6/14
Catches/stumpings	22/–	82/–	159/–	187/–

Source: CricketArchive, 21 November 2009

Andrew Symonds (born 9 June 1975) is a former Australian cricket team all-rounder. A two-time World Cup winner, Symonds is a right-handed middle order batsman and alternates between medium pace and off-spin bowling. He is also notable for his exceptional fielding skills.

Since mid-2008, he spent most of the time out of the team, due to disciplinary reasons, including alcohol. In June 2009 he was sent home from the 2009 World Twenty20, his third suspension, expulsion or exclusion from selection in the space of a year. His central contract was then withdrawn, and many cricket analysts speculated that the Australian administrators would no longer tolerate him, and that Symonds might announce his retirement. On 16 February 2012, Symonds announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, in an attempt to concentrate on his family life.

One of Symonds' biological parents was of West Indian background and the other was believed to be of Danish or Swedish descent. Symonds' adoptive parents Ken and Barbara moved to Australia shortly after his adoption, when he was three months old. Of the adopted siblings, Louise Symonds participated in Gladiators. He also has two non-adopted siblings. He spent the early part of his childhood in Charters Towers, northern Queensland, where his father Ken taught at the private fee paying All Souls St Gabriels School, which Andrew attended. He showed sporting prowess from a very early age. "Dad was cricket mad. He’d throw balls to me five or six days a week, before school, after school. And we’d play all sorts of games inside the house with ping-pong balls and Christmas decorations." Much of his junior cricket was played in Townsville for the Wanderers club, father and son making the 270-kilometre return trip sometimes twice a week. The family later moved to the Gold Coast, where his parents were on the staff of All Saints Anglican School in Merrimac. Symonds was a student at the school.

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