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Andrew Tye

Andrew Tye
Personal information
Full name Andrew James Tye
Born (1986-12-12) 12 December 1986 (age 30)
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Role Bowler
International information
National side
T20I debut (cap 78) 29 January 2016 v India
Last T20I 19 February 2017 v Sri Lanka
T20I shirt no. 68
Domestic team information
Years Team
2013–present Western Australia (squad no. 68)
2013–2014 Sydney Thunder (squad no. 68)
2014–present Perth Scorchers (squad no. 68)
2016–present Gujarat Lions (squad no. 68)
2016–present Gloucestershire (squad no. 68)
Career statistics
Competition T20I FC LA T20
Matches 5 8 20 51
Runs scored 4 39 135 137
Batting average 2.00 4.87 16.87 12.45
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 4 10 28* 42
Balls bowled 110 1,475 963 1,125
Wickets 5 22 41 62
Bowling average 37.60 36.81 22.19 23.43
5 wickets in innings 0 0 1 0
10 wickets in match n/a 0 n/a n/a
Best bowling 3/37 3/47 5/46 4/18
Catches/stumpings 0/- 1/– 7/– 8/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 February 2017

Andrew James "AJ" Tye (born 12 December 1986) is an Australian cricketer, currently contracted to Western Australia, Gujarat Lions and the Perth Scorchers domestically.

From the northern suburbs of Perth, Tye played second XI cricket in England for Somerset, Durham and Northamptonshire before making his list A debut in the 2013–14 Ryobi One-Day Cup aged 26. He performed extremely well, taking the second most wickets in the tournament and returning the best single innings bowling figures of 5 wickets for 46 runs against Tasmania.

Following his impressive performances in the One Day tournament, he signed with the Sydney Thunder for the 2013–14 Big Bash League season. For the 2014–15 Big Bash League season however, he switched to play for the Perth Scorchers.

He was seen as a breakout player in BBL04, with Australian T20 captain Aaron Finch labelling him as the 'find of the tournament'. He enjoyed success with the team, and was a focal contributor to Perth's second successive Big Bash League title. He was bought by the Chennai Super Kings for IPL 2015.

At grade cricket level, Tye plays for Scarborough.

He made his Indian Premier League (IPL) debut in the 2017 IPL for the Gujarat Lions side and registered the best bowling figures by a bowler on IPL debut (5/17) and also took a hat-trick. On the same day of IPL,Samuel Badree of Royal Challengers Bangalore also took a hat-trick. This was the first time in the IPL that two bowlers took a hat-trick on a same day in two different IPL matches.


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