Alana King

**Alana Maria King** (born 22 November 1995) is an Australian international cricketer. She plays for Western Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Perth Scorchers in the Women's Big Bash League.

## Life

King was born in Clarinda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Her family is Anglo-Indian. Both of her parents moved from Chennai (the capital city of Tamil Nadu),  India to Melbourne.

King became interested in cricket like her brother. She tried other sports like tennis, softball, and baseball. Tennis was the first sport she liked. She started playing tennis when she was five years old. She played in the Tennis Victoria Pennant, which is the biggest tennis competition between clubs in Australia.

In 2011, she worked as a ball kid at the women's singles final of the Australian Open. She also played on her school’s softball team and for the Monash University Baseball Club.

### Career in Australia

King started playing for Victoria in 2012 when she was 16. She got her first rookie contract with the team called VicSpirit. In 2015, she joined the Melbourne Stars for the first season of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). In 2016, she became part of the senior Victoria cricket team.

In the 2021–22 WBBL season, King did very well. She took 16 wickets and was the fifth-highest wicket-taker of the season.

## International career

In April 2019, Cricket Australia gave King a contract to join the National Performance Squad.

In January 2022, King was picked to play for Australia in a series against England called the Women's Ashes. She was chosen to replace injured players Georgia Wareham and Sophie Molineux. She was also picked ahead of Amanda-Jade Wellington, who played for the Australia A team instead.

She was named in Australia's team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England in May 2022.

She was also picked to play for Australia in the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup and the 2025 Women’s Ashes series.

## Infobox (cricketer)

- **name**: Alana King
- **female**: true
- **image**: 2022–23 WNCL WA v ACT 22-09-25 King (01) (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: King playing for Western Australia women's cricket team, Western Australia in 2022
- **alt**: King playing for WA in September 2022
- **country**: Australia
- **fullname**: Alana Maria King
- **birth place**: Clarinda, Victoria, Australia
- **batting**: Right-handed
- **bowling**: Right-arm Leg spin, leg break
- **role**: All-rounder
- **international**: true
- **testdebutdate**: 27 January
- **testdebutyear**: 2022
- **testdebutagainst**: England
- **testcap**: 181
- **lasttestdate**: 21 December
- **lasttestyear**: 2023
- **lasttestagainst**: England
- **odidebutdate**: 3 February
- **odidebutyear**: 2022
- **odidebutagainst**: England
- **odicap**: 147
- **lastodidate**: 7 February
- **lastodiyear**: 2024
- **lastodiagainst**: South Africa
- **t20idebutdate**: 20 January
- **t20idebutyear**: 2022
- **t20idebutagainst**: England
- **t20icap**: 57
- **lastt20idate**: 18 February
- **lastt20iyear**: 2023
- **lastt20iagainst**: South Africa
- **club1**: Melbourne Stars (WBBL), Melbourne Stars
- **club2**: Victoria women's cricket team, Victoria
- **club3**: Western Australia women's cricket team, Western Australia
- **club4**: Perth Scorchers (WBBL), Perth Scorchers
- **club5**: IPL Supernovas, Supernovas
- **club6**: Trent Rockets
- **year6**: 2022–present
- **columns**: 4
- **column1**: Women's Test cricket, WTest
- **matches1**: 4
- **runs1**: 50
- **bat avg1**: 10.00
- **100s/50s1**: 0/0
- **top score1**: 21
- **deliveries1**: 494
- **wickets1**: 4
- **bowl avg1**: 60.50
- **fivefor1**: 0
- **tenfor1**: 0
- **best bowling1**: 2/39
- **catches/stumpings1**: 1/–
- **column2**: Women's One Day International, WODI
- **matches2**: 26
- **runs2**: 91
- **bat avg2**: 15.16
- **100s/50s2**: 0/0
- **top score2**: 28not out, *
- **deliveries2**: 1,077
- **wickets2**: 37
- **bowl avg2**: 21.40
- **fivefor2**: 0
- **tenfor2**: –
- **best bowling2**: 4/26
- **catches/stumpings2**: 9/–
- **column3**: Women's Twenty20 International, WT20I
- **matches3**: 22
- **runs3**: 27
- **bat avg3**: 13.50
- **100s/50s3**: 0/0
- **top score3**: 18not out, *
- **deliveries3**: 391
- **wickets3**: 21
- **bowl avg3**: 19.52
- **fivefor3**: 0
- **tenfor3**: –
- **best bowling3**: 4/8
- **catches/stumpings3**: 6/–
- **column4**: List A cricket, WLA
- **matches4**: 70
- **runs4**: 471
- **bat avg4**: 15.19
- **100s/50s4**: 0/0
- **top score4**: 34
- **deliveries4**: 2,125
- **wickets4**: 91
- **bowl avg4**: 23.35
- **fivefor4**: 1
- **tenfor4**: –
- **best bowling4**: 5/12
- **catches/stumpings4**: 27/–
- **source**: https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/955/955147/955147.html CricketArchive
- **date**: 18 February 2024