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Mitchell Starc

Mitchell Starc
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Starc in February 2010
Personal information
Full name Mitchell Aaron Starc
Born (1990-01-30) 30 January 1990 (age 27)
Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Height 196 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Left arm Fast
Role Bowler, Lower Order Batsman
Relations Alyssa Healy (wife)
Ian Healy (uncle-in-law)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 425) 1 December 2011 v New Zealand
Last Test 4 March 2017 v India
ODI debut (cap 185) 20 October 2010 v India
Last ODI 5 February 2017 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 56
T20I debut (cap 59) 7 September 2012 v Pakistan
Last T20I 9 September 2016 v Sri Lanka
T20I shirt no. 56
Domestic team information
Years Team
2009–present New South Wales (squad no. 56)
2011–present Sydney Sixers
2012 Yorkshire
2014–2016 Royal Challengers Bangalore
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 36 65 70 90
Runs scored 1,067 259 1,542 381
Batting average 24.81 16.18 24.09 18.14
100s/50s 0/9 0/1 0/10 0/1
Top score 99 52* 99 52*
Balls bowled 7,355 3,194 12,420 4,554
Wickets 148 129 257 193
Bowling average 28.35 19.89 27.32 18.85
5 wickets in innings 7 5 11 8
10 wickets in match 1 n/a 1 n/a
Best bowling 6/50 6/28 6/50 6/25
Catches/stumpings 16/– 18/– 33/– 24/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 7 March 2017

Mitchell Aaron Starc (born 30 January 1990), is an Australian cricketer who currently plays first-class cricket for the New South Wales Blues. He is a left-arm fast bowler and a capable lower order left-handed batsman. He was a prominent member of the victorious Australian squad that won the 2015 Cricket World Cup and was declared Man of the Tournament as a result of his consistent performances.

Starc then became the fastest bowler to take (over) 100 ODI wickets on 21 August 2016 against Sri Lanka, doing so in 52 innings and breaking Saqlain Mushtaq's 19-year-old record, of taking 100 wickets in 53 innings.

On 30 December 2016 against Pakistan in the Boxing Day test, he broke Andrew Symonds' record of the most sixes at the MCG in one innings, hitting 7 sixes.

He is also a former junior cricketer for the Berala Sports Cricket Club in Sydney, Australia, who attended Homebush Boys High School also representing the school's 1st grade cricket team. He was known to wicketkeeper and bowl in the same innings during his time with the club. Mitchell Starc was also a representative cricketer of the Northern District Cricket Association (NDCA).

Starc debuted for his home state New South Wales in 2009, at the age of 19. His performances for Western Suburbs and the state 2nd XI earned him the elevation and he replaced the suspended Aaron Bird for the final match of the season. Starc, gained a spot at the Centre of Excellence in the off-season in 2009. In eight Sheffield Shield games in the 2009-10 season he captured 21 wickets, including a best of 5 for 74 against Queensland, and also chipped in with a half-century.

In 2015, Starc maintained his dominance at the international level by breaking records in the Australian domestic one-day tournament, which came about due to postponement of Australia's tour of Bangladesh. The pure numbers from Starc's tournament underline his dominance: 26 wickets from six matches at an average of 8.12 and a strike rate of 12.3. Starc was named as Player of the Tournament in the tournament in which New South Wales won.


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