Andrew Barry McDonald (born 5 June 1981) is the head Australian cricket coach and former

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er who played for the

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and

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s. He was born in

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and currently lives in Geelong, Victoria. He made his

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debut in Sydney on 3 January 2009, against

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. McDonald also represented Australia at under 19 level and has played for the Prime Minister's XI. He is an

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who bats right-handed and is a right-arm medium-fast bowler. McDonald was captain of the Australian A XI which took on South Africa in October/November 2012.

Coaching career

After retiring as a player, he became a cricket coach. He has coached

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and the

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. He won the

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in his first year as senior coach of Victoria. He was also bowling coach for

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and head coach of

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in the

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. In October 2019, he was appointed as assistant coach to

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with the Australian men's cricket team. On 5 February 2022, with the resignation of Justin Langer, McDonald was appointed interim head coach of the team. On 13 April 2022, he was appointed as head coach for

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for four years.

Career summary

McDonald started his first class career with 32 wickets in his first ten games in 2003–04. His best spell was 6 for 67 against Western Australia. He was struggling however with the bat and despite batting at 4 at the start of the summer he would end it at number 8 in the batting order. Finger surgery the following season limited his appearances. In 2005–06 he played just four matches and only managed 83 runs and four wickets. Injury free, McDonald came into his own in the 2006–07 season. In the Pura Cup he boasted a batting average of over a hundred when he brought up his 500th run. He finished the season as only the 4th player in Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup history to reach the double of 750 runs and 25 wickets in a season. He was rewarded for his strong domestic form by being named in the Australian 30-man preliminary squad for the 2007 World Cup. He was also named in the Australian preliminary squads for the

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and a 7 match ODI series tour of India. He made his Test debut in the Third Test against South Africa at the

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in January 2009 because

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and

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were both injured. In Australia's first innings, McDonald came in at number six and scored 15 before edging a catch to

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. During this innings, he was given a nasty bouncer by

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, knocking his helmet off from behind and narrowly missing his leg-stump. The next day, he removed

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( lbw) for 51 to claim his first ever Test wicket. Andrew McDonald 2010

He was subsequently selected for the tour to South Africa in February–March 2009. In a three match Test series which Australia won 2–1, McDonald made some valuable contributions, including 68 in the second innings of the Third Test at Cape Town and taking 6 wickets during the series. As a result of his performance, McDonald was selected for the 2009 Ashes tour, although did not play in any of the Tests. He did score 75 runs opening the batting in the second innings against

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, as well as taking 4 for 15 to win the match for Australia. He returned to Australia temporarily from the 2009 Ashes tour to be with his wife who was due to give birth to the couple's first child. In the 2009

McDonald played for the

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, and his experience in India playing for Victoria in the

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was a factor in his call-up to Australia's injury-hit ODI squad in India in November 2009. McDonald was one of the 350 players under the hammer for the

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Auction 2011. He was bought by

for US$80,000. On 11 January 2012 during the first transfer window trading,

signed him from Delhi for a transfer fee of US$100,000.

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