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James Faulkner (cricketer)

James Faulkner
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Faulkner in 2014
Personal information
Full name James Peter Faulkner
Born (1990-04-29) 29 April 1990 (age 26)
Launceston, Tasmania Australia
Nickname The Finisher, Jimmy
Height 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
Role All-rounder
Relations Peter Faulkner (father)
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 435) 21 August 2013 v England
ODI debut (cap 202) 1 February 2013 v West Indies
Last ODI 5 January 2017 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 44
T20I debut (cap 57) 1 February 2012 v India
Last T20I 22 February 2017 v Sri Lanka
T20I shirt no. 44
Domestic team information
Years Team
2008– Tasmania
2011 Pune Warriors India
2011– Melbourne Stars
2012 Kings XI Punjab
2013–2015 Rajasthan Royals
2015 Lancashire
2016–present Gujarat Lions
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 1 67 60 115
Runs scored 45 988 2,547 1,831
Batting average 22.50 34.06 32.24 30.51
100s/50s 0/0 1/4 2/15 1/10
Top score 23 116 121 116
Balls bowled 166 3,116 9,479 5,424
Wickets 6 95 187 162
Bowling average 16.33 30.08 24.77 29.70
5 wickets in innings 0 0 5 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 4/51 4/32 5/5 4/20
Catches/stumpings 0/– 20/– 26/– 32/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 February 2017

James Peter Faulkner (born 29 April 1990) is an Australian cricketer who plays for Tasmania. An all-rounder, left-arm medium pacer and right-hand batsman, Faulkner has consistently picked up key wickets and also chips in with a few handy runs while batting in the lower-middle order, and earned the nickname of "The Finisher" due to his ability to close out the innings to set a big total or to seal victories as a batsman. In the 2010–11 Sheffield Shield season he made 300 runs at 30 and took 36 wickets at 17.72.

In the 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season, Faulkner score his maiden first class hundred for the Tasmania cricket team against New South Wales cricket team.

In 2012, that he captained the Tasmania Under-17s, he was already in the state's U-19s and the Tasmania Second XI. Faulkner earned himself a state rookie contract for 2007–08, a place in the Australia U-19 team at the 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and one of three positions in the Australian Cricket Academy's development squad for 2007.

He was part of the Pune Warriors India team in IPL 2011, and then a part for Kings XI Punjab in IPL 2012. However he has just played three IPL matches between IPL 2011 and IPL 2012. During the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) players auction, he was bought by the Rajasthan Royals for $400,000. He has received two man of the matches in IPL 2014 vs RCB and in IPL 2015 vs KXIP respectively.

Faulkner was man of the match in the 2012–13 Sheffield Shield final, helping Tasmania secure its third title.

On 1 February 2012, Faulkner made his Twenty20 International debut for Australia against India. Despite his current status as a pace bowler, he started as an aspiring leg-spin bowler, which he now uses his topspinner or yorker-length googly as his slower ball variation.


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