Dominic Peter Michael (born 8 October 1987) is a Samoan-Australian

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er. He has played international cricket for

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

, and Australian domestic cricket for

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and

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. He has also represented two

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franchises, the Brisbane Heat and the

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Early life

Michael was born in

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to a

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father and a

n mother.

Domestic career

After appearances at under-19 and

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level, he made his senior debut for Queensland late in the 2012–13 season, playing two

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fixtures and one

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game.First-class matches played by Dom Michael
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 October 2015. The holder of an EU passport through his father, Michael signed as the

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' overseas player for the

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tournament, an English domestic competition. He finished as the second leading runscorer for the Netherlands, behind

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, and also found time to play three

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matches for

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. Michael signed with the Brisbane Heat for the 2013–14 season, but his only match for the team came at the

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event in India, in which he scored a

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.Twenty20 matches played by Dom Michael
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 October 2015. He added another three Sheffield Shield matches for Queensland, but for the following season moved to Tasmania. Michael once again played only a single match for the state BBL franchise, the

, but had more success in his Shield appearances for Tasmania. Against

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, he scored a maiden first-class half-century, 97 from 215 balls opening with Ed Cowan, which was followed by 52 against Victoria two matches later.

International career

In August 2018, he was named in

's squad for Group A of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 East Asia-Pacific Qualifier tournament. In the final match of the tournament, against

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

, he scored 100

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from 62 balls, and was named the man of the match. He finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer for Samoa, with 225 runs in six matches. In June 2019, he was selected to represent the Samoa cricket team in the men's tournament at the

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. He made his

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(T20I) debut for Samoa, against

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

, on 8 July 2019.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Michael, Dominic 1987 births Living people Australian cricketers Samoan cricketers Samoa Twenty20 International cricketers Australian people of Greek Cypriot descent Australian sportspeople of Samoan descent Brisbane Heat cricketers Cricketers from Brisbane Hobart Hurricanes cricketers Netherlands cricketers Queensland cricketers Tasmania cricketers