Australia A cricket team

Australia A

Team information
Founded	1994–95
Official website	Official Website
First-class One-day

The Australia A cricket team is a cricket team representing Australia and is the second team of the Australian cricket team. They have also played far more one-day than first-class matches; indeed they have played only three first-class games against equivalent A sides, against South Africa A in 2002–03 and Pakistan A in 2009.

In the Australian summer of 1994–95, the (then) Benson and Hedges World Series Cup was expanded to involve four teams instead of the usual three – Australia, England, Zimbabwe and Australia A (though games involving Australia A are not considered official One-Day Internationals). In a shock result, the Australia A team (captained by Damien Martyn and featuring up-and-comers such as Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden and Greg Blewett, as well as veterans – wicket-keeper Phil Emery and pacemen Paul Reiffel and Merv Hughes) ousted England from the series and went into the best-of-3 final against Australia. They were swept 2–0, but it was unquestionably a display of the next generation of Australia's prowess. Many of the 1994–95 A players later played for Australia.

In earlier times, Australia often sent Second XI teams on overseas tour, consisting of players on the fringes of national selection. Instances of this occurred in 1949–50 and 1959–60, to New Zealand.

In one-day cricket, Australia A's team colours were the same as Australia's, except reversed with dark green instead of bottle green and canary yellow instead of wattle gold.

Results summary

Australia A matches		First-Class matches			List A matches			T20 matches
Date	Opponent	W	L	D	W	L	NR/T	W	L	NR/T
Dec 1994–Jan 1995	Quad Series in Australia vs Australia, England & Zimbabwe	-	-	-	3	5	0	-	-	-
Jan 1996	vs West Indies	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-
Dec 1996	vs West Indies	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 1996	vs Pakistan	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
Dec 1997	vs South Africa	0	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jan 1998	vs New Zealand	-	-	-	0	1	0	-	-	-
Jul-Aug 1998	@ Scotland	0	0	2	2	0	3	-	-	-
Aug 1998	@ Ireland	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sep 1999	in United States vs India A	-	-	-	4	1	0	-	-	-
Jan 2000	vs Pakistan	-	-	-	2	0	0	-	-	-
Dec 2000-Jan 2001	vs West Indies	0	0	1	0	1	0	-	-	-
Jan 2001	vs Zimbabwe	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-
Jan 2002	vs New Zealand	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-
Jan 2002	vs South Africa	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-
Sep 2002	@ South Africa A	-	-	-	5	1	1	-	-	-
Nov-Dec 2002	vs England XI	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 2002-Jan 2003	vs Sri Lanka	-	-	-	4	1	-	-	-	-
Apr 2003	vs South Africa A	-	-	2	3	1	1	-	-	-
Dec 2003	vs India	0	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jan 2004	vs Zimbabwe	0	0	1	1	1	-	-	-	-
Jan 2005	vs West Indies	-	-	-	1	1	0	-	-	-
Jan 2005	vs Pakistan	-	-	-	1	1	0	-	-	-
Sep 2005	@ Pakistan A	0	1	1	2	1	0	-	-	-
2007–08	@ Pakistan A	1	0	1	0	3	0	-	-	-
Sep 2008	@ India A	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sep 2008	Tri-Series in India vs India A & New Zealand	-	-	-	3	2	-	-	-	-
Jun-Jul 2010	vs Sri Lanka A	2	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0
Nov 2010	vs England XI	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nov 2011	vs New Zealand	0	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jul 2012	@ Derbyshire	0	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Aug 2012	@ Durham	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Aug 2012	@ England Lions	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nov 2012	vs South Africa	0	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Feb-Mar 2013	vs England Lions	-	-	-	4	0	1	-	-	-
Jun 2013	@ Scotland	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jun 2013	@ Ireland	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jun 2013	@ Gloucestershire	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jul 2013	Zimbabwe Select XI	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jul-Aug 2013	@ South Africa A	0	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Aug 2013	Tri-Series in South Africa vs South Africa A & India A	-	-	-	3	2	0	-	-	-
Nov 2013	vs England XI	0	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jul 2014	vs India A	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jul-Aug 2014	Quad Series vs India A, South Africa A & National Performance Squad	-	-	-	4	3	-	-	-	-
Aug 2014	vs South Africa A	0	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jul-Aug 2015	@ India A	1	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Aug 2015	Tri Series in India vs India A & South Africa A	-	-	-	4	1	0	-	-	-
Jul-Aug 2016	vs South Africa A	2	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Aug 2016	Quad Series vs India A, South Africa A & National Performance Squad	-	-	-	3	3	1	-	-	-
Sep 2016	vs India A	1	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Aug 2018	Quad-Series in India vs India A, India B & South Africa A	-	-	-	2	2	2	-	-	-
Sep 2018	@ India A	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jun 2019	@ Northamptonshire	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-
Jun 2019	@ Derbyshire	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-
Jun 2019	@ Worcestershire	-	-	-	0	0	1	-	-	-
Jun - Jul 2019	@ Gloucestershire	-	-	-	2	0	0	-	-	-
Nov 2019	vs Pakistan	0	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Feb 2020	vs England Lions	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Former players

Jason Krejza Mark Cameron Doug Bollinger Dan Cullen Tim Paine Shaun Marsh George Bailey Chris Rogers Beau Casson Aiden Blizzard Luke Butterworth Ben Hilfenhaus Glenn Maxwell Adam Voges Ryan Campbell Marcus North Jon Holland Steve Smith Ryan Broad

Brendan Drew Michael Hill Clint McKay Andrew McDonald Michael Klinger Xavier Doherty Ryan Harris Travis Birt Cullen Bailey Ben Laughlin Luke Pomersbach Nathan Reardon Aaron Heal Chris Hartley Chris Swan Burt Cockley Phillip Hughes Alex Doolan

Ben Cutting Cameron White Chadd Sayers James Faulkner Jason Behrendorff Josh Hazlewood Kane Richardson Mitchell Marsh Mitchell Starc Moises Henriques Peter Forrest Peter Nevill Sam Whiteman Tom Cooper

Current squad

Name	Role	State
Ashton Agar	Bowling All-rounder	WA
Cameron Bancroft	Opening Batsman	WA
Jason Behrendorff	Fast bowler	WA
Jackson Bird	Fast bowler	TAS
Alex Carey	Wicket-keeper	SA
Sam Heazlett	Middle-order Batsman	QLD
Daniel Hughes	Opening Batsman	NSW
Kurtis Patterson	Opening Batsman	NSW
Kane Richardson	Fast Bowler	SA
Marcus Stoinis	Batting All-rounder	WA
Mitchell Swepson	Leg-spin Bowler	QLD
Chris Tremain	Fast Bowler	VIC
Jack Wildermuth	Bowling All-rounder	QLD

References

Squad selected for the South Africa series 2017