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Kurtis Patterson Kurtis Robert Patterson ( born 5 April 1993 ) is an Australian cricketer , currently playing for the New South Wales cricket team in the Sheffield Shield , and the Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League . Patterson scored a century on his first-class cricket debut for New South Wales in November 2011 , becoming the youngest batsman to score a century in Sheffield Shield cricket . In January 2019 , he made his Test debut for Australia against Sri Lanka , becoming the 457th person to play test cricket for Australia . He made a century in just his second test match in Canberra , also against Sri Lanka . He was not selected for the 2019 Ashes series and returned to play domestically in the 2019/2020 season . Early life . Kurtis Patterson was born in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville and grew up in Roselands and then Lugarno . He was born into a family with a strong sporting pedigree . His mum Dana played volleyball for Australia and his father Brad played cricket for Northern Districts in Sydneys first grade competition . Patterson went to high school at Christian Brothers in Lewisham . He played much of his junior cricket with St George Cricket Club . Aged 13 , he played for St George in the AW Green Shield , which is Sydneys premier cricket competition for under 16s . Playing Green Shield again the following year , he scored a total of 442 runs at an average of 88.40 . By the time he was 17 , Patterson was playing first grade for St George . At the start of the 2011/2012 season , he scored two centuries in the first 4 rounds , which saw him be selected to make his debut for New South Wales . Domestic career . Patterson made his Sheffield Shield debut for New South Wales against Western Australia in November 2011 . He made an immediate statement by scoring 157 in the first innings and remaining 6 not out in the second innings as New South Wales won the match by 6 wickets . This performance earned him the player of the match honours . His century in the first innings saw him become the youngest player to score a century in the Sheffield Shield . At the age of 18 years and 206 days he broke the record that was previously held by Barry Shepherd , who scored a century aged 18 years and 241 days in 1955 . Despite this initial success , he was not selected to play for New South Wales for the rest of the season . Patterson returned to the New South Wales side during the 2013/2014 season , playing 7 out of 11 games . Throughout the season he scored a total of 403 runs at an average of 31.00 . He scored 4 half-centuries during the season , including 52 in the final against Western Australia , which was won by New South Wales . Patterson produced similar statistics during the 2014/2015 season , scoring 372 runs at an average of 28.61 . Pattersons break out year came during the 2015/2016 season . Play all but one game , he scored a total of 737 runs at an average of 52.64 , which included two centuries and four half-centuries . This made him the highest run-scorer for New South Wales that season and the 6th highest run-scorer in the whole competition . He was then selected for Australia A to play in a 2016 winter series against South Africa A and India A . In two unofficial test matches against South Africa A , Patterson made scores of 74 , 6 , 92 , and 50 not out . This made him the highest scorer in the series among both sides . During this offseason , he also played 6 one day matches for Australia A in a quadrangular series against India A , South Africa A , and Australias National Performance Squad . His stand-out performance in the series was a score of 115 against India A in a match that Australia A won by 1 run . Still aged just 23 and with a first-class batting average of 42.91 , Patterson was now in contention for national selection . Before the start of the 2016/2017 season , former New South Wales and Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin said that Patterson could be in contention to play for Australia that summer . He furthered his case by scoring a century against Queensland in the first round of the 2016/2017 Sheffield Shield season . After this innings , New South Wales coach Trent Johnston said he believed Patterson was ready for test cricket and deserved a chance at international level . However , Patterson was not selected for Australia and played out the rest of the season in the Sheffield Shield . Although he did not score a century for the rest of the season , he still finished the season with 668 runs at an average of 44.53 . This was followed by another strong domestic season in 2017/2018 where he scored 672 runs . This marked the second time in three years that Patterson was the highest run-scorer for New South Wales . Despite his consistent run scoring ability , questions began to be asked in the media about his ability to convert his half-centuries into bigger scores . However , in round 5 of the 2018/2019 , he made a score of 107 not out against Western Australia , his first Sheffield Shield century since 2016 . Between that time , he had scored a total of 14 half-centuries without scoring a century . Domestic One-Day Career . Since 2013 , Patterson has played for New South Wales in Australias domestic one-day competition . In his first year playing in the competition , he played 7 out of 8 matches and made 152 runs at an average of 25.33 as New South Wales finished runners up in the competition . He following year he had a slightly improved season , scoring 230 runs at an average of 32.85 . He had his most successful season in the 2016 competition when he averaged 49.40 . In the final , Patterson scored 77 not out as New South Wales won the title . Just before the start of the 2018 competition , New South Wales captain Peter Nevill broke his thumb , and Patterson was named as the new captain . He had a difficult start as captain as New South Wales lost the first 3 games of the season . He also struggled individually , averaging 23.80 for the season . After being in contention for a Test call-up in the 2017–18 Ashes series , Patterson played every match for New South Wales in the 2017–18 JLT One-Day Cup , scoring two fifties and averaging 41.33 runs per innings to be one of the teams top run-scorers for the tournament . During the 2019 season , Patterson was hampered by a quad injury , playing only two matches in the competition . Big Bash career . For the inaugural season of the Big Bash League , Australias franchise Twenty20 competition , Patterson was offered a roster spot by the Sydney Thunder . However , he turned it down to focus on making the New South Wales Sheffield Shield side . In the second season of the Big Bash , Patterson was signed by the Sydney Sixers franchise for the 2012/2013 season . In his first season , he only played one game for the Sixers . The following season , he was signed by cross-town rivals the Sydney Thunder . Patterson was not regularly selected for the Thunder , playing only 9 games in each of the next three seasons . In later seasons of the Big Bash he began to play for games for the Thunder but failed to make a significant impact . In his time at the Thunder , he played a total of 25 matches in 8 seasons with a total of 438 runs and a high score of 48 . Just before the start of the 2019/2020 Big Bash season , Patterson signed a 3-year deal with the Perth Scorchers . He missed the opening rounds of the season due to a hamstring injury . He finally made his debut for the Scorchers in January 2020 , however , after scoring 38 runs in 3 matches , he was dropped for the remainder of the season due to lack of runs . International career . During the 2018/19 season , Patterson was selected to play for a Cricket Australia XI side against the touring Sri Lankans as a warm-up for the test series . Patterson scored unbeaten centuries in both innings , with 157 not out in the first innings and 102 not out in the second innings . He was named the player of the match . Despite this performance against the Sri Lankans , the Australian squad for the test series had already been named the previous week and Patterson had not been included . However the selectors backtracked and he was added to Australias Test squad for the series against Sri Lanka . He made his Test debut for Australia against Sri Lanka on 24 January 2019 . He had his baggy green cap presented to him by Michael Hussey . Batting at number 6 , he made 30 off 82 balls in his first test innings before being dismissed LBW . He was not required to bat in the second innings as Australia won by an innings and 40 runs . He also took three catches in the match , including a diving , one-handed catch in the gully to dismiss Dilruwan Perera . He was retained in the side for the second Test match in Canberra . In the second test , he scored a century , the first of his Test career as Australia romped to a huge total , with Joe Burns and Travis Head also scoring centuries . Patterson finished with a score of 114 not out . With Travis Head also scoring his first test century in the same innings , it was the first time since 1989 that two Australian batsmen had made their first test centuries in the same innings . Both his parents and many of his friends were in the crowd when he reached his century . He did not bat in the second innings as Australia beat Sri Lanka by 366 runs , winning the series 2–0 . 2019 Australia A tour of England . Following the conclusion of the test series , Patterson returned to play for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield . He finished the competition with a total of 724 runs , making him the 5th highest run-scorer for the season . This meant that Patterson was suddenly in contention for selection in the Australian side due to tour England for the 2019 Ashes series . Patterson was selected for the Australia A team that toured England in the lead up to the Ashes . These matches were considered to be crucial in deciding who would be selected for the Ashes . Before this tour , Patterson had only played 8 weeks of club cricket in England and he struggled to make runs . He scored 4 , 32 , and 28 for Australia A before scoring 2 and 0 in an intra-squad trial match . Ultimately , Patterson was not selected for the series , with Chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns saying Patterson was desperately unlucky to not be selected . Hohns also said the return of Steve Smith , David Warner , and Cameron Bancroft from their ball-tampering suspensions pushed players like Patterson out of the side . Injury and 2020 season . At the start of the 2019/2020 season , Patterson suffered a quadriceps injury playing grade cricket for St George . While he started the Sheffield Shield season for New South Wales , he reinjured his leg while fielding against Tasmania and missed several months of cricket . This injury also meant that Patterson did not have a chance to impress national selectors before the Australia test squad for the summer was named . On his return from injury , Patterson only played 3 matches for New South Wales before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the last round of the season . Patterson stated towards the end of the season that he did not think the injury was affecting his batting . He was also selected for Australia A against England Lions in February 2020 . He top-scored with 94 not out in the second innings of the match . Patterson against the Pink Ball . Since the introduction of day-night first-class cricket in 2013 , one particular strength of Patterson has been his batting performances against the pink ball , which is used for these day-night games . Before being selected for Australia in 2019 , Patterson had an average of 57.31 against the pink ball . This was compared to his usual batting average of 40.93 . This was speculated to be a reason why he included in the side for his debut match against Sri Lanka , a day-night game in Brisbane . These statistics are more significant as batsmen have generally struggled against the pink ball in comparison to the red ball . Evidence has shown that the pink ball is more difficult for batsmen to see during twilight . It has also been suggested that a batsmans timing could be negatively affected when playing against a pink ball at night . On facing the pink ball , Patterson said that while facing the pink ball is very different at night , he believes he has played enough cricket with a pink ball that he can adjust .