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 

 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.

 References 

Category:1995 births
Category:Living people
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:Sportspeople from Victoria (Australia)
Category:International cricketers (women)