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| Full name | Nicolas James Maddinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1991-12-21)21 December 1991 (age 33) Nowra,New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Opening batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 448) | 24 November 2016 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 26 December 2016 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 65) | 10 October 2013 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 6 July 2018 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 53 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010/11–2017/18, 2024/25- | New South Wales(squad no. 53) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011/12–2017/18 | Sydney Sixers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Guyana Amazon Warriors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018/19–2020/21 | Melbourne Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018/19–2023/24 | Victoria(squad no. 53) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021/22–2023/24 | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Durham(squad no. 53) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024/25 | Sydney Thunder(squad no. 53) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicolas James Maddinson (born 21 December 1991) is an Australiancricketer. He is a left-handed opening batsman who has represented Australia in bothTest matches andTwenty20 Internationals. Domestically he plays forNew South Wales and theSydney Thunder in theBig Bash League, previously having played forVictoria,Melbourne Stars,Melbourne Renegades andSydney Sixers.
Born on 21 December 1991 inNowra, New South Wales, Maddinson was part of the New South Wales under-19 side that won the Australian under-19 Championship in December 2009. Two months earlier, he had topped the batting averages forAustralia's under-19 side in a home series against Sri Lanka under-19s,averaging 72 runs and innings during the series, including scoring a century in one match. He was later selected for the Australian for the2010 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, opening the batting as Australia won the tournament.[1]
Maddinson also enjoyed an excellent season forSutherland District Cricket Club in 2009/10,[2] scoring 604 runs at an average of 46.46 runs per innings. He scored two centuries, including making 137 runs in the semi-final againstEastern Suburbs Cricket Club, helping Sutherland reach the Grand Final, where they eventually lost toSt George Cricket Club.[2] he took 12 First Grade wickets during the season with hisleft-arm orthodox spin deliveries, including five wickets for 95 runs in the semi-final.[2]
Maddinson made hisfirst-class cricket debut in October 2011, scoring a century to become the youngest New South Wales player to score a century on first-class debut. His score of 113 runs againstSouth Australia at theAdelaide Oval came aged 18 years and 294 days, beaten the record set byArthur Morris in 1940 aged 18 years and 342 days.
Maddinson made hisBig Bash League debut forSydney Sixers in January 2011 and played for the side until the 2017/18 season. During the 2014/15 season he captained the side in five matches whenMoisés Henriques was injured,[3] He made hisIndian Premier League debut in 2014 forRoyal Challengers Bangalore, playing in just two matches before being ruled out of the competition due to injury.[4] He rejoined the side in 2015 but played only once before playing forGuyana Amazon Warriors in the2016 Caribbean Premier League, finishing on the losing side in the competition's final. In 2018 he played forSurrey County Cricket Club in the2018 Vitality Blast.[5]
Maddinson moved to play forVictoria ahead of the 2018/19 Australian season. He found a place in the side in the2018–19 JLT One-Day Cup, playing in all eight matches and scoring two half-centuries. He was left out of the first five matches of the Sheffield Shield season but selected following Marcus Harris' selection in the Australian Test squad for the tour of India. He scored 162 runs on his Victoria Shield debut, but later broke his arm during a match, ruling him out for the finals. At the same time he moved to play for Victorian sideMelbourne Stars in the Big Bash.
In 2019/20 Maddinson was the leading run scorer in the Sheffield Shield, making 780 runs at an average of 86.66 runs an innings. He made two centuries and five half-centuries and set a new highest first-class score of 224 runs. He was awarded the joint Shield player of the year award.[6]
In 2024/25 Maddinson returned to play for New South Wales and also joined theSydney Thunder in the BBL.
As a 19-year-old, Maddinson was selected in both the one-day and four-dayAustralia A squads for the 2011 tour of Zimbabwe,[7] playing in three one-day matches in a tri-series with Zimbabwe and South Africa.
He went on to make his full international debut for Australia in a Twenty20 International matchagainst India at Rajkot in October 2013, scoring 34 runs from 16 balls.[8] In November 2016 Maddinson made his Test match debut in the third Testagainst the touring South Africans.[9][10] Hisbaggy green cap was presented bySimon Katich. He played in three Tests during the summer batting at number six, making a duck on debut against South Africa[11] and then scores of 1, 4 and 22 in three innings againstthe touring Pakistan side[12] before being dropped for the final Test of the summer.[13]