Luke Andrew Doran (born 14 August 1991 in
Baulkham Hills
Baulkham Hills is a suburb in the Hills District of Greater Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 30 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district within the local government area of The Hills Shire. Ba ...
,
Sydney,
New South Wales
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) is an Australian
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er who plays for the
Sydney Sixers
The Sydney Sixers are an Australian professional franchise men's cricket team, competing in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League (BBL). Along with the Sydney Thunder, the Sixers are the successors of the New ...
and the
New South Wales Blues. He was a member of
Australia's 2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup squad which won the
2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
The 2010 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was the eighth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup and took place in New Zealand. Since 1998, the tournament has been held every 2 years. This edition had 16 teams competing in 44 matches between 15 ...
in New Zealand. He has played in three
List A matches for New South Wales, and 15
Big Bash
The Big Bash League (known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, often abbreviated to BBL or Big Bash) is an Australian professional club Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash L ...
games for the Sydney Sixers. Doran did not play in the
2015–16 Big Bash League season
The 2015–16 Big Bash League season (BBL, 05) was the fifth season of the Big Bash League (BBL), the premier Twenty20 cricket competition in Australia. The tournament ran from 17 December 2015 to 24 January 2016.
The BBL title was won by the S ...
due to a side strain, although he was in the Sixers semi-final squad.
Doran previously represented the
Fairfield-Liverpool Lions, and now also represents
Lindisfarne in the
Cricket Tasmania
Cricket Tasmania (formerly the ''Tasmanian Cricket Association'') is the administrative body for cricket in Tasmania, Australia, and they are based at Bellerive Oval.
Cricket Tasmania's primary purpose is to promote and develop the game of cri ...
Premier League; in the 2015 final, Doran was dismissed for 87 and infamously threw his bat at the match official.
He is the older brother of cricketer
Jake Doran and Micheal Doran who attends and is currently at Luke/s old school
The Hills Sports High School
Hills Sports High School is a Education in Australia#Government schools, government-funded Mixed-sex school, co-educational Comprehensive education, comprehensive and specialist secondary school, secondary day school, with speciality in Sports ...
.
See also
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List of New South Wales representative cricketers
This is a list of male cricketers who have played for New South Wales in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. It is complete to the end of the 2017–18 season. The list refers to the sides named as "New South Wales" and does not include pl ...
References
External links
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Living people
1991 births
New South Wales cricketers
Australian cricketers
Sydney Sixers cricketers
Cricketers from Sydney
Sydney Thunder cricketers