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Australia A
AssociationCricket Australia
Personnel
CoachTim Paine
Batting coachScott Prestwidge
Bowling coachAdam Griffith
Team information
Founded1994
History
First-class debutSouth Africa
in 19–22 December 1997
at The Gabba

First-class

One-day

The Australia A men's cricket team is a cricket team representing Australia. It is currently used to develop young players and prepare them for the Australian national cricket team,[1] though has seen participation from older, or more established players, as preparation for upcoming series.[2] Originally playing as tour matches alongside the main Australian side, the team has since expanded to participating in their own tours.

History

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Australia had sent Second XI teams on overseas tours before—such as their tours of New Zealand in 1949–50 and 1959–60. These teams would consist of players on the fringes of national selection.

In 1994, this team was given an official name, when the 1994–95 Australian Tri-Series was expanded to involve four teams instead of three, with the addition of "Australia A" to the pre-established Australia, England and Zimbabwe.[3] This Australia A team was made up of younger players as part of the selection process for the 1996 Cricket World Cup, with Ricky Ponting, Michael Bevan and Paul Reiffel going from the Australia A side in these games to the squad for the World Cup as David Boon, Tim May and Phil Emery missed out. Games involving Australia A are not official One Day Internationals but are included in the List A statistics when that classification was made official by the International Cricket Council in 2006.[4] During this series, players would regularly be swapped between the 'A' team and the national team.[5]

The team originally played 50-over cricket until their first-class debut against the South Africa national team in 1997.[6] They participated in their first solo tour in 1998, touring Scotland and Ireland.

Squad

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This table lists all players who have played for Australia A since 11 October 2025.

  • Players who have international caps are in boldface.
Name Age Batting style Bowling style State team Captain Last FC Last LA
Batters
Peter Handscomb35Right-handedRight-arm off breakVictoria[N 1]India A
2026/27		Gloucestershire
2019
Campbell Kellaway24Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodoxVictoriaIndia A
2026/27		Sri Lanka A
2025
Sam Konstas21Right-handedRight-arm off breakNew South WalesIndia A
2026/27		India A
2026/27
Nathan McSweeney27Right-handedRight-arm off breakSouth Australia[N 2]India A
2026/27		India A
2026/27
Matt Renshaw30Left-handedRight-arm off breakQueenslandEngland Lions
2025/26		Sri Lanka A
2025
Jason Sangha27Right-handedRight-arm leg breakSouth AustraliaIndia A
2026/27		Sri Lanka A
2025
All-rounders
Nikhil Chaudhary30Right-handedRight-arm off breakTasmaniaN/aIndia A
2026/27
Cooper Connolly23Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodoxWestern AustraliaEngland Lions
2025/26		India A
2025/26
Mitchell Owen25Right-handedRight-arm mediumTasmaniaN/aIndia A
2026/27
Liam Scott25Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumSouth AustraliaIndia A
2026/27		India A
2026/27
Will Sutherland27Right handedRight-arm medium-fastVictoria[N 3]India A
2025/26		India A
2026/27
Beau Webster32Right-handedRight-arm medium, off breakTasmaniaEngland Lions
2025/26		N/a
Wicket-keepers
Sam Harper29Right-handedN/aVictoriaIndia A
2026/27		N/a
Josh Philippe29Right-handedN/aNew South WalesIndia A
2026/27		India A
2026/27
Lachlan Shaw23Right-handedN/aNew South WalesN/aIndia A
2026/27
Pace bowlers
Xavier Bartlett27Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumQueenslandEngland Lions
2025/26		N/a
Mahli Beardman21Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumWestern AustraliaN/aIndia A
2026/27
Brendan Doggett32Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumSouth AustraliaIndia A
2026/27		N/a
Ben Dwarshuis32Left-handedLeft-arm fast-mediumNew South WalesNew Zealand A
2023		India A
2026/27
Ryan Hadley27Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastNew South WalesEngland Lions
2025/26		N/a
Liam Hatcher30Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastNew South WalesIndia A
2026/27		N/a
Spencer Johnson30Left-handedLeft-arm fastSouth AustraliaNew Zealand A
2023		India A
2026/27
Riley Meredith30Right-handedRight-arm fastTasmaniaPakistan A
2019		India A
2026/27
Fergus O'Neill25Right-handedRight-arm mediumVictoriaIndia A
2026/27		N/a
Jhye Richardson30Right-handedRight-arm fastWestern AustraliaIndia A
2026/27		India A
2019
Spin bowlers
Todd Murphy25Left-handedRight-arm off breakVictoria[N 4]India A
2026/27		India A
2026/27
Corey Rocchiccioli29Right-handedRight-arm off breakWestern AustraliaIndia A
2026/27		N/a
Tanveer Sangha24Right-handedRight-arm leg breakNew South WalesSri Lanka A
2025		India A
2026/27
As of 11 October 2026[13]
Notes
  1. ↑ Handscomb captained Australia A in both first-class matches for Australia A's tour of India in 2026–27.[7][8]
  2. ↑ McSweeney captained Australia A in first-class for the England Lions' tour of Australia in 2025–26 and the second List A match for Australia A's tour of India in 2026–27.[9][10]
  3. ↑ Sutherland captained Australia A for the first List A match for Australia A's tour of India in 2026–27.[11]
  4. ↑ Murphy captained Australia A in the third List A match for Australia A's tour of India in 2026–27.[12]

Coaching staff

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The following coaching panel was named ahead of Sri Lanka A's tour of Australia in 2025, as of June 2025.[14][15][16]

Position Name
Head coach Tim Paine
Batting coach Scott Prestwidge
Bowling coach Adam Griffith
Development coach Trent Keep

Results summary

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† Matches that were part of an Australia tour.
Date Opponent(s) Location First-class List A T20 Ref
W L D W L T NR W L T NR
Dec 1994–Jan 1995 Australia, England & Zimbabwe
(Quad-Series)		 Australia — 3 5 0 0 — [17]
Jan 1996 West Indies† Australia — 1 0 0 0 — [18]
Dec 1996 West Indies† Australia — 1 0 0 0 — [19]
Dec 1996 Pakistan† Australia — 0 1 0 0 — [20]
Dec 1997 South Africa† Australia 0 0 1 — — [6]
Jan 1998 New Zealand† Australia — 0 1 0 0 — [21]
Jul–Aug 1998 Scotland Scotland 0 0 2 2 0 0 3 — [22][23]
Scotland XI — 1 0 0 0 —
Ireland Ireland 1 0 0 3 0 0 2 —
Sep 1999 India A United States — 4 1 0 0 — [24]
Jan 2000 Pakistan† Australia — 2 0 0 0 — [25]
Dec 2000–Jan 2001 West Indies† Australia 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 — [26]
Jan 2001 Zimbabwe† Australia — 1 0 0 0 — [27]
Jan 2002 New Zealand† Australia — 1 0 0 0 — [28]
Jan 2002 South Africa† Australia — 1 0 0 0 — [29]
Sep 2002 South Africa A South Africa — 5 1 0 1 — [30]
Nov–Dec 2002 England XI† Australia 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 — [31]
Dec 2002–Jan 2003 Sri Lanka † Australia — 4 1 0 0 — [32]
Apr 2003 South Africa A Australia 0 0 2 3 1 0 1 — [33]
Dec 2003 India† Australia 0 0 1 — — [34]
Jan 2004 Zimbabwe† Australia — 1 1 0 0 — [35]
Jan 2005 West Indies† Australia — 1 1 0 0 — [36]
Jan 2005 Pakistan† Australia — 1 1 0 0 — [37]
Sep 2005 Pakistan A Pakistan 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 — [38]
Sep 2007 Pakistan A Pakistan 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 — [39]
Sep 2008 India A India 0 0 2 — — [40]
Sep 2008 India A & New Zealand A
(Tri-Series)		 India — 3 2 0 0 — [41]
Jun–Jul 2010 Sri Lanka A Australia 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 [42]
Nov 2010 England XI† Australia 0 1 0 — — [43]
Nov 2011 New Zealand† Australia 0 0 1 — — [44]
Jul–Aug 2012 Derbyshire England 0 0 1 — — [45]
Durham 0 1 0 — —
England Lions 0 0 2 — —
Nov 2012 South Africa† Australia 0 0 1 — — [46]
Feb–Mar 2013 England Lions Australia — 4 0 0 1 — [47]
Jun 2013 Scotland Scotland 1 0 0 — — [48]
Ireland Ireland 1 0 0 — —
Gloucestershire England 1 0 0 — —
Jul–Aug 2013 Zimbabwe Select XI Zimbabwe 1 0 0 — — [49]
South Africa A South Africa 0 1 1 — —
Aug 2013 South Africa A & India A
(Tri-Series)		 South Africa — 3 2 0 0 — [50]
Nov 2013 England XI† Australia 0 0 1 — — [51]
Jul 2014 India A Australia 0 0 2 — — [52]
Jul–Aug 2014 India A, South Africa A & National Performance Squad
(Quad-Series)		 Australia — 4 3 0 0 — [53]
Aug 2014 South Africa A Australia 0 1 1 — — [54]
Jul–Aug 2015 India A India 1 0 1 — — [55]
Aug 2015 India A & South Africa A
(Tri-Series)		 India — 4 1 0 0 — [56]
Jul–Aug 2016 South Africa A Australia 2 0 0 — — [57]
Aug–Sep 2016 India A, South Africa A & National Performance Squad
(Quad-Series)		 Australia — 3 3 0 1 — [58]
Sep 2016 India A Australia 1 0 1 — — [59]
Aug 2018 India A, India B & South Africa A
(Quad-Series)		 India — 2 2 0 2 — [60]
Sep 2018 India A India 1 1 0 — — [61]
Jun 2019 Northamptonshire England — 1 0 0 0 — [62]
Derbyshire — 1 0 0 0 —
Worcestershire — 0 0 0 1 —
Gloucestershire — 2 0 0 0 —
Sussex 1 0 0 — —
England Lions 0 0 1 — —
Nov 2019 Pakistan† Australia 0 0 1 — — [63]
Feb 2020 England Lions Australia 0 1 0 — — [64]
Dec 2020 India† Australia 0 0 2 — — [65]
Dec 2021 England Lions† Australia 1 0 0 — — [66]
June 2022 Sri Lanka A † Sri Lanka 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 — [67]
Apr 2023 New Zealand A New Zealand 0 1 1 — — [68]
Aug–Sep 2023 New Zealand A Australia 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 — [69]
Oct–Nov 2024 India A† Australia 2 0 0 — — [70]
Jan–Feb 2025 England Lions Australia 1 0 0 — — [71]
Jul 2025 Sri Lanka A Australia 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 — [72]
Sep–Oct 2025 India A India 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 — [73]
Dec 2025 England Lions† Australia 1 0 0 — — [74]
Sep–Oct 2026 India A India 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 — [75]

References

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