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| Born | (1992-03-31)31 March 1992 (age 33) Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armLeg-Break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 212) | 6 February 2016 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 25 October 2025 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 88 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 82) | 7 March 2016 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 8 November 2025 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 88 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012/13 2020/21–present | New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012/13 | Sydney Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013/14–2019/20 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013/14–2014/15 | Adelaide Strikers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015/16–2022/23 | Melbourne Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Rising Pune Supergiants | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Guyana Amazon Warriors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Jamaica Tallawahs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Welsh Fire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Rajasthan Royals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023-2024 | Oval Invincibles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023/24–present | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adam Zampa (born 31 March 1992) is an Australian internationalcricketer who representsAustralian cricket team inlimited-overs cricket. Zampa was a member of the Australian teams that won the2023 Cricket World Cup and the2021 T20 World Cup. He is also the highest wicket-taker for Australia inTwenty20 International.
As a child, Zampa bowledmedium pace, butCricket Australia had placed restrictions on how many overs pace bowlers were allowed to bowl in under-14 matches, so he decided to change his bowling style toleg spin, inspired by Australian Test cricketerShane Warne.[1] Zampa made his way intoAustralia's under-19 team in 2009 and earned a rookie contract with the Blues in 2010[2] after playing a role by representing Australia in their successful2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup campaign.[3] Zampa played in two youth Test matches and eight youth ODIs, taking 11 wickets across the two formats.[4][5]
As a result of Zampa's youth career for Australia, he was given a rookie contract withNew South Wales in 2010,[3] but he did not get any opportunities to prove himself at state-level because New South Wales also had a number of other successful spin bowlers, such asNathan Hauritz,Steve O'Keefe andSteve Smith.[1] He did get another opportunity to represent Australia before his first-class debut, playing in the2011 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes.[6]
Zampa made hisfirst-class debut for New South Wales in the2012–13 Sheffield Shield season againstQueensland. He took five wickets in a three-wicket win.[7] Despite not having a contract with aBig Bash League team until a week beforeBBL|02 began, he played for theSydney Thunder and was highly rated byTrevor Hohns.[1] He finished the season having played three first-class matches, taking ten wickets at anaverage of 23 runs per wicket.[8]
After the season he accepted an offer to play forSouth Australia, in both first-class and one-day matches and for South Australia'sTwenty20 team, theAdelaide Strikers. He was tempted by the guaranteed starts he would get in South Australia's team as they had just lost Test spinnerNathan Lyon to New South Wales.[8] During the 2013 winter, he spent three months training at theCentre of Excellence before joining the South Australian squad for the 2013–14 season.[9] The move to South Australia proved a useful one for progressing Zampa's career as he had the opportunity to work with experienced South African spinnerJohan Botha, who was the captain of the South Australian side at the time of his move.[10]
Zampa had an impressive performance in the2014–15 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup, getting on ahat-trick and taking overall figures of 4/18 despite South Australia losing the match to Western Australia.[11] In 2015, Zampa signed on for the Redbacks for two more seasons, but in order to get more experience, he changed Twenty20 sides to theMelbourne Stars, where he would have the opportunity to play alongside international starsMichael Clarke andKevin Pietersen.[12]
The 2015–16 summer was the most successful of Zampa's career to that point. He impressed in bothList A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, and in 2016, was included in Australia's squad for bothOne Day Internationals andTwenty20 Internationals,[13] but he struggled in first-class cricket.[14] In the2015–16 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup, he recorded figures of 4/48 againstCricket Australia XI to help take South Australia into the tournament's elimination final.[15] InBBL|05, he was part of an unusual dismissal,running outPeter Nevill with hisnose.[16]
In April 2022, he was bought by theWelsh Fire for the2022 season ofThe Hundred.[17]
He made hisODI debut on 6 February 2016 in the second match of2015–16 Chappell–Hadlee Trophy series.[18] He made hisTwenty20 International debut for Australiaagainst South Africa on 4 March 2016.[19] Zampa became a regular member of both the ODI and T20I squad for Australia.[20] Zampa was named in Australia's squad for the2016 World Twenty20 before he had made his T20I debut for Australia in South Africa.[21] Despite how recently he'd been added to the squad, he was Australia's leading wicket-taker with five wickets at an average of 13.80 and aneconomy rate of 6.27,[20] including a breakout performance againstBangladesh with figures of 3/23.[22]
With Zampa's rise to Australia's national team he also started to play in Twenty20 franchises as an overseas player. Playing forRising Pune Supergiant in theIndian Premier League against theSunrisers Hyderabad, he took 6 wickets for 19 runs and ranked as the third best performance as a bowler in the history of the IPL after 6/14 bySohail Tanvir and 6/12 byAlzarri Joseph. Zampa bowled his first over for the match in the 8th over of Sunrisers Hyderabad's innings, but was taken out of the attack immediately without taking a wicket. He wasn't brought back on until the 16th over, in which he took one wicket. CaptainMS Dhoni gave him an extended spell after his wicket, and he took two wickets in the 18th over and three more wickets in the 20th over, bringing his total to six.[23] He was named man of the match for his performance, and this was also the record for the best bowling figures by a bowler in Twenty20 history in a losing side.[24] Zampa also played in theCaribbean Premier League for theGuyana Amazon Warriors, taking the most wickets out of all spin bowlers for the tournament with 15 wickets at an average of 18.46.[14]
Zampa was surprisingly dropped from Australia's Twenty20 side for the second match of athree-match series against Sri Lanka in 2016–17 after bowling well in the series opener and taking two wickets. Zampa described being dropped as a "kick in the guts", saying his recent form indicated he was one of the best Twenty20 spin bowlers in the world. Without Zampa Australia lost both the match and the series.[25] Zampa was brought back into the side for the final match of the series, and he was named the man of the match with 3/25 as Australia won the game.[26]
Despite all of Zampa's successes in the shorter forms of cricket, he was still unable to break into Australia's Test side. He was unable to reach exceptional form in the Sheffield Shield, being a victim of South Australia's very strongpace attack, withChadd Sayers andKane Richardson taking all of the wickets themselves and not leaving opportunities for Zampa to stand out.[26] Australia played aTest series in India in early 2017, and former New Zealand captainStephen Fleming touted him as a possible addition to Australia's squad given his ability to bowl well on Indian pitches,[27] but he was not included in the squad.[28] Instead, Zampa continued playing in the Sheffield Shield and had his firstfive-wicket haul in a first-class innings when he took career-best figures of 6/62 in the first innings against Queensland before taking another four wickets in the second innings to accomplish his firstten-wicket haul in a first-class match.[29][30]
Zampa was in Australia's squad for the2017 ICC Champions Trophy, but he didn't get many opportunities to play when two of Australia's three group stage matches were washed out and Australia was unable to progress to the finals.[31] In April 2019, he was named inAustralia's squad for the2019 Cricket World Cup.[32][33] In August 2021, Zampa was named in Australia's squad for the2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[34] On 4 November 2021, in Australia's T20 World Cup match againstBangladesh, Zampa took his firstfive-wicket haul in T20 cricket.[35]
In March 2022, during the opening match of the seriesagainst Pakistan, Zampa took his 100th wicket in ODI cricket.[36]
In September 2022, he took his first ODI five-wicket haul, againstNew Zealand in Cairns.[37]
In September 2023, he tied with fellow AustralianMick Lewis, the unwanted record of most runs conceded by a bowler in ODIs, going 0/113 versus South Africa. This record was broken on 25 October whenBas de Leede of the Netherlands Recorded figures of 2/115 against Australia in the ICC World Cup 2023.[38]
Zampa played a crucial part in Australia's successful2023 ICC World Cup campaign. Zampa came into the tournament as the only specialist spinner in the team afterAshton Agar was removed from the squad due to injury.[39] On 16 October 2023. He received the man of the match in Australia's first victory of the tournament againstSri Lanka with figures of 4/47.[40] On 20 October 2023, Zampa was the pick of the bowlers taking 4 wickets giving 53 runs with an economy of 5.30 and helped his team to win overPakistan.[41] On 3 November 2023, againstEngland. Zampa recorded figures of 3/21 dismissing set batsmenBen Stokes andMoeen Ali. He also took a difficult catch in the outfield causing the dismissal ofDavid Willey. Notably, he also added vital runs to the total from the lower order, scoring 29 runs off 19 deliveries. His all round effort earned him his second man of the match of the tournament.[42] Zampa's consistency saw him finish the tournament as the 2nd highest wicket taker in the tournament. Taking 23 wickets from 11 matches, the most wickets ever taken by an Australian Spinner at a World Cup and tyingMurali's record of the most wickets ever taken at a World Cup by a spinner.[43]
In May 2024, he was named in Australia’s squad for the2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament.[44] On 11 June 2024 he became the first Australian bowler to take 100 wickets in T20 internationals by dismissingBernard Scholtz ofNamibia.
Zampa lives on a hobby farm in theByron Bay Hinterland[45] approximately 60km south ofQueensland-New South Wales border and is married to Harriet Palmer; the couple have a son.[46][47] He isvegan and has appeared in advertisements forPETA.[48]
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