Josh Reginald Hazlewood is an Australian cricket player who was born on January 8, 1991. He is a tall fast bowler who is known for his precision. He has been compared to Glenn McGrath, who was also a fast bowler for Australia. The ICC Men’s Player Rankings put Hazlewood at No. 2 in ODI, No. 3 in T20I, and No. 12 in test. He played for Australia when they won both the Cricket World Cup in 2015 and the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2021.
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Biography of Josh Hazlewood:
Early career
Hazlewood grew up in a small country town in New South Wales called Bendemeer, which is about 40 km north of Tamworth. He is Trevor and Anne Hazlewood’s youngest child. He has an older brother and sister. Josh often played cricket with his older brother in the backyard, and by the time he was 12, he was already playing for Tamworth against guys his own age. At 17, Hazlewood was chosen to represent New South Wales, making him the youngest paceman to do so. In November 2008, he played his first match at the Sydney Cricket Ground against a New Zealand team that was on tour. Hazlewood also became the youngest Australian player to play in an ODI for his country on June 22, 2010.
He is a right-handed fast bowler who has also played for Australia’s Under-19 team. He was the youngest player on Australia’s Under-19 World Cup team in 2008.
International career of Josh Hazlewood:
His One Day International debut yielded one wicket for 41 runs in 7 overs. He took 1–36 in 4 overs on his T20I debut against West Indies on 13 February 2013. Against England, he took 4–30. Hazlewood got the first day-night Test player of the match in November 2015. He lbw Martin Guptill, the first day-night Test wicket, against New Zealand. In his 12th Test, he became the fastest to 50 career wickets, surpassing Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, and Mitchell Johnson.
In the first ODI against New Zealand in January 2017, Hazlewood batted unusually. He had a 26-minute, 54-run combination with Marcus Stoinis. He became the first player to be run out for a diamond duck in a partnership of over fifty runs when Australia was seven runs shy of a win. Cricket Australia gave him a 2018–19 national contract in April 2018. He was selected for the 2019 Ashes series in England in July. Hazlewood took 20 wickets at 21.85 in four of the five matches. Hazlewood was named to a 26-man preliminary team on 16 July 2020 to train for a prospective England visit after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cricket Australia announced the fixtures on 14 August 2020, with Hazelwood in the traveling party. Hazlewood took his 200th Test wicket against India in the inaugural Border–Gavaskar Trophy Test 2020–21. He is Australia’s 17th-highest Test wicket scorer. Hazlewood joined Australia’s 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup squad in August 2021. In the 2021-22 Ashes series, Hazlewood played only the first test in Brisbane, taking three wickets and two catches. He captained the second ODI against England in November 2022 after Pat Cummins rested.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 60 | 71 | 34 | 446 | 39 | 12.05 | 991 | 45.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 2 |
| ODI | 69 | 23 | 19 | 81 | 23 | 20.25 | 104 | 77.88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| T20I | 41 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 13 | 11.0 | 14 | 157.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| IPL | 27 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 7 | 0.0 | 28 | 67.86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 60 | 113 | 12811 | 5844 | 225 | 6/67 | 9/115 | 2.74 | 25.97 | 56.94 | 9 | 0 |
| ODI | 69 | 68 | 3626 | 2766 | 108 | 6/52 | 6/52 | 4.58 | 25.61 | 33.57 | 3 | 0 |
| T20I | 41 | 41 | 922 | 1181 | 58 | 4/12 | 4/12 | 7.69 | 20.36 | 15.9 | 0 | 0 |
| IPL | 27 | 27 | 603 | 810 | 35 | 4/25 | 4/25 | 8.06 | 23.14 | 17.23 | 0 | 0 |
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