Ashton Agar

Ashton Agar

Agar playing for Australia against England in the 1st Ashes Test at Trent Bridge on 12 July 2013.
Personal information
Full name	Ashton Charles Agar
Born	(1993-10-14) 14 October 1993 (age 23) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Slow left-arm orthodox
Role	Bowling All-rounder
International information
Test debut (cap [[List of {{{country}}} Test cricketers|434]])	10 July 2013 v England
Last Test	18 July 2013 v England
ODI debut (cap [[List of {{{country}}} ODI cricketers|208]])	8 September 2015 v England
Last ODI	13 September 2015 v England
ODI shirt no.	46
T20I debut (cap [[List of {{{country}}} Twenty20 International cricketers|83]])	6 March 2016 v South Africa
Last T20I	18 March 2016 v New Zealand
T20I shirt no.	46
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2013–present	Western Australia (squad no. 18)
2013–present	Perth Scorchers (squad no. 18)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 2 2 44 26 Runs scored 130 5 1,453 309 Batting average 32.50 5.00 26.41 20.60 100s/50s 0/1 0/0 2/8 0/1 Top score 98 5 106 64 Balls bowled 504 66 8,792 1,207 Wickets 2 2 114 34 Bowling average 124.00 28.50 40.24 28.79 5 wickets in innings 0 0 5 1 10 wickets in match 0 n/a 2 n/a Best bowling 2/82 1/12 6/110 5/39 Catches/stumpings 0/– 2/– 17/– 13/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 18 February 2017

Ashton Charles Agar (born 14 October 1993) is an Australian cricketer, plays all forms of the game international level. Agar plays domestically for Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers. A left-handed all-rounder, he played two Test matches for the Australian national side during the 2013 Ashes series.

Agar was born in Melbourne, to a Sri Lankan mother and an Australian father, and has two younger brothers, Will and Wes. He attended Melbourne's De La Salle College, graduating in 2011.

He represented Victoria at both under-17 and under-19 level. After good form at the 2010–11 National Under-17 Championships, where he took 16 wickets at an average of 11.75 bowling left-arm orthodox spin, he was selected to play for the Australian under-19s for a series against the West Indies under-19s in the United Arab Emirates. Making his debut at the age of 17, Agar went on to play one under-19 Test and ten under-19 One Day International (ODI) matches for Australia. At the 2012 Under-19 World Cup, he was named in the squad as Australia's second spinner behind Ashton Turner, but did not play a match at the tournament.

Having failed to gain selection at senior level for Victoria, Agar moved to Western Australia for the 2012–13 season, where he was awarded a contract with the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA). He made his first-class debut for Western Australia in a Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales in January 2013, replacing the injured Michael Beer as the side's spinner. In his second Shield match, early the following month, he scored 53 runs in Western Australia's second innings, putting on a state Sheffield Shield record partnership of 94 runs for the tenth wicket with Michael Hogan (43*). Agar made his List A debut for Western Australia in the limited-overs Ryobi One-Day Cup in late January, and took five wickets from his two matches, with his best figures 3/51 against Queensland.