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| Full name | Matthew Scott Wade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1987-12-26)26 December 1987 (age 37) Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Wadey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70[1] m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armmedium[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper-batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 428) | 7 April 2012 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 15 January 2021 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 192) | 5 February 2012 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 26 July 2021 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 53) | 13 October 2011 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 24 June 2024 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006/07,2017/18–present | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007/08–2016/17 | Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Delhi Daredevils | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011/12–2013/14 | Melbourne Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014/15–2015/16 | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017/18–present | Hobart Hurricanes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Gujarat Titans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Birmingham Phoenix | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Joburg Super Kings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Karachi Kings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | London Spirit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew Scott Wade (born 26 December 1987) is an Australian former internationalcricketer. He plays domestic cricket for theTasmanian cricket team, who he also captains, and forHobart Hurricanes.
In December 2020, Wadecaptained Australia for the first time in international cricket.[3] On 15 March 2024, he announced his retirement from red ball cricket after the final match of2023–24 Sheffield Shield season.[4] He was an integral member of the Australian team that won the2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
Wade was born inHobart on 26 December 1987. He is the son ofScott Wade, anAustralian rules footballer who played forHawthorn in theVictorian Football League (VFL), forClarence andHobart in theTasmanian Football League (TFL), and served a long tenure as CEO ofAFL Tasmania. His grandfather, Michael Wade, served as president of the Hobart Football Club.[5] Wade is the cousin ofCollingwood Football Club defenderJeremy Howe.[6]
Wade represented Tasmania in junior cricket and junior football, vice-captaining theTassie Mariners in theTAC Cup, where he played alongside futureAustralian Football League playersSam Lonergan,Grant Birchall andJack Riewoldt. He represented Australia at the2006 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
At the age of 16, he was diagnosed withtesticular cancer,[7] and received two rounds ofchemotherapy before he was cleared of the disease.[8]
Wade iscolour blind.[9] He has suffered difficulties on the field due to the colours of certain cricket balls.[10]
Wade played oneList A match for theTasmania Tigers in the2006–07 Ford Ranger One Day Cup season, his only match for Tasmania in any form of the game in his first spell with the state side. His opportunities to be selected as awicketkeeper in his home state were minimal[clarification needed] due to the presence ofTim Paine, who at the time was seen as the likely successor toBrad Haddin as wicketkeeper in theAustralian national team. Rather than attempt to become a specialist batsman, Wade moved toVictoria in the2007/08 season, and within two years had established himself as the state's first choice wicketkeeper ahead of incumbentAdam Crosthwaite.[11]
Wade scored his maiden first-class century in the2008/09 season. He made an important contribution to Victoria's win in the2009/10 Sheffield Shield final againstQueensland, when he came out to bat with the team at 5/60 and scored 96 runs. Victoria won the match by 457 runs and Wade was named man of the match.[12] He was suspended and fined for pitch tampering in 2013[13] and in February 2015, scored 152 for Victoria in theSheffield Shield, his highest first-class score to date.
In January 2011, Wade signed with theDelhi Daredevils,[14] going on to play three times for Delhi in the2011 Indian Premier League.
Before the2017/18 season, Wade chose to return to his home state of Tasmania for family reasons.[15] He assumed the first choice wicket keeper role with Tim Paine a member of the Test side, although Wade was selected as a specialist batsman when Paine returned from national duties. The move also saw Wade traded from theMelbourne Renegades to theHobart Hurricanes inthe Big Bash. He went on to be named in theSheffield Shield team of the year in March 2018.[16]
Mid-way through the2018/19 season, Wade was appointed captain of Tasmanian team and the Hurricanes after a decision by Cricket Tasmania to removeGeorge Bailey to focus on his batting performance.[17]
In February 2022, he was bought by theGujarat Titans in theauction for the2022 Indian Premier League tournament.[18] In April 2022, he was bought by theBirmingham Phoenix for the2022 season ofThe Hundred in England.[19] In December 2022, Wade was drafted by theKarachi Kings as their Platinum Category round pick at the2023 PSL draft[20]
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Following his success in domestic limited overs cricket, Wade was called up to theAustralian team for the first time in October 2011, for aTwenty20 International against South Africa. In February 2012, he made his international breakthrough as a T20I player against India in Sydney, opening the batting and scoring 72 runs from 43 balls to earn theMan of the Match award.
Following that T20I series, Wade was called up to the AustralianOne Day International team for the2011–12 Commonwealth Bank Series. He won the Man of the Match award on debut, scoring 67 runs off 69 balls against India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[21] During the series, he cemented his place as Australia's first choice limited overs wicket-keeper, and usually opened the batting.[11]
Wade was part of the Australian team for the2011–12 tour of the West Indies as the limited overs wicketkeeper. However, after Test wicketkeeper Brad Haddin returned home before the Test matches because his daughter was ill, Wade was selected to replace him. He made his Test debut on 7 April against the West Indies at Barbados, and scored his maiden Test century (106) in the third Test in Roseau.[22] Wade was then selected ahead of Haddin for Australia's following Test series againstSouth Africa in November 2012,[23] and held his place until the end of the 2012–13 season, encompassing a home series againstSri Lanka, and atour of India. He scored his second Test century in the third Test against Sri Lanka in Sydney.
However, from the2013 Ashes series, Wade lost his Test position to Brad Haddin. He retained his position as ODI wicketkeeper for a period of time, but was ultimately left out of the Australian2015 Cricket World Cup squad for Haddin. However, after the retirement ofBrad Haddin at the end of 2014–15, Wade was recalled to the team for the ODI, and T20I seriesagainst England in 2015;[24] but, lost the Test wicketkeeping position toPeter Nevill. It was not until November 2016, three and a half years after his previous Test match, that Wade returned to the Test team, recalled ahead of a struggling Nevill, for the third Testagainst South Africa, and the subsequent home series againstPakistan.[25]
On 13 January 2017, in the first ODIagainst Pakistan of a 5-match series, Wade scored his maiden ODI century, which came from 100 balls. He reached 100 on the final ball of Australia's innings, and his effort came when Australia was in trouble at 5 for 78 early in the innings. On the second last ball he got 2 runs off of a ball hit to the infield due to a misfield, which allowed him to retain the strike to complete the hundred. Wade was given outLBW earlier in his innings, but the decision was overturned after he asked for a review.[26]
On 27 January 2017, he was named asODI captain of Australia in injuredSteve Smith's place for their seriesagainst New Zealand.[27] He was not fit for the first ODI and ruled out from the squad.Aaron Finch was named stand-in captain for the match.[28] Before the second ODI of that series Wade was ruled out of series due toback injury and Finch continued to captain in the remaining matches.[29]
In July 2019, Wade was added toAustralia's squad for the2019 Cricket World Cup, as cover forUsman Khawaja, who was ruled out of the knock-out stage of the tournament with a hamstring injury.[30]
In July 2019, he was named inAustralia's squad for the2019 Ashes series in England.[31][32] Wade played in all five matches, making 337 runs across 10 innings at an average 33.70, including two centuries.[33] The series was drawn 2-2.[34] In April 2020,Cricket Australia awarded Wade with a central contract ahead of the 2020–21 season.[35][36]
On 16 July 2020, Wade was named in a 26-man preliminary squad of players to begin training ahead of a possibletour to England following theCOVID-19 pandemic.[37][38] On 14 August 2020,Cricket Australia confirmed that the fixtures would be taking place, with Wade included in the touring party.[39][40] On 6 December 2020, Wade captained Australia for the first time, leading the side in a T20I match against India at theSCG afterAaron Finch was ruled out due to injury.[3] In August 2021, he was named captain for Australia's five-match T20I series against Bangladesh.[41] Later the same month, Wade was named in Australia's squad for the2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[42]
In May 2024, he was named in Australia’s squad for the2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament.[43]
On 29 October 2024, Wade announced his retirement from international cricket.[44][45]
He has scored fourcenturies inTest matches and one in aOne Day International.[46] His highest Test score of 117 came againstEngland atThe Oval in September 2019. His highest ODI score of 100not out came againstPakistan atThe Gabba in January 2017.
| No. | Score | Opponents | Venue | Date | Result | Ref |
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| 1 | 106 |  West Indies | Windsor Park,Dominica | 23 April 2012 | Australia won | [48] |
| 2 | 102* |  Sri Lanka | Sydney Cricket Ground,Sydney | 3 January 2013 | Australia won | [49] |
| 3 | 110 |  England | Edgbaston Cricket Ground,Birmingham | 1 August 2019 | Australia won | [50] |
| 4 | 117 | England | The Oval, London | 12 September 2019 | Australia lost | [51] |
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| 1 | 100* |  Pakistan | The Gabba,Brisbane | 13 January 2017 | Australia won | [53] |
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