Matthew Wade

Matthew Wade

Wade in October 2011
Personal information
Full name	Matthew Scott Wade
Born	(1987-12-26) 26 December 1987 (age 29) Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Nickname	Wadey
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Role	Wicket-keeper-batsman
Relations	Scott Wade (father)
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 428)	7 April 2012 v West Indies
Last Test	23 February 2017 v India
ODI debut (cap 192)	5 February 2012 v India
Last ODI	26 January 2017 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no.	13 (was 35)
T20I debut (cap 53)	13 October 2011 v South Africa
Last T20I	9 September 2016 v Sri Lanka
T20I shirt no.	13 (was 35)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2006–2007	Tasmania
2008–present	Victoria (squad no. 17)
2011	Delhi Daredevils
2011–2014	Melbourne Stars
2014–present	Melbourne Renegades
2016–present	Warwickshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 17 87 105 152 Runs scored 701 1,741 5,001 3,835 Batting average 29.20 26.78 38.17 32.22 100s/50s 2/3 1/10 9/31 6/19 Top score 106 100* 152 130 Balls bowled 6 – 48 – Wickets 0 – 1 – Bowling average – – 32.00 – 5 wickets in innings 0 – 0 – 10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a Best bowling – – 1/23 – Catches/stumpings 50/5 102/9 351/15 175/19
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 25 February 2017

Matthew Scott Wade (born 26 December 1987) is an Australian cricketer, who has represented the Australian national team as wicketkeeper in all three forms of international cricket (Test, One-Day International and Twenty20 International). He plays domestic first class and List A cricket for the Victoria Bushrangers, also acting as the teams captain. He plays domestic Twenty20 cricket for the Melbourne Renegades.

Wade was born in Hobart on 26 December 1987. He is the son of Scott Wade, an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL), for Clarence and Hobart in the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), and served a long tenure as CEO of AFL Tasmania. His grandfather, Michael Wade, served as president of the Hobart Football Club. Wade is the cousin of Collingwood Football Club defender Jeremy Howe. Wade represented Tasmania in underage cricket and underage football, vice-captaining the Tassie Mariners in the TAC Cup, where he played alongside future Australian Football League players Sam Lonergan, Grant Birchall and Jack Riewoldt. He represented Australia at the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. At the age of 16, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and received two rounds of chemotherapy before he was cleared of the disease. He is colour blind.