Matthew Thomas Renshaw (born 28 March 1996) is an Australian international cricketer. He played eleven Tests for Australia between 2016 and 2018 as an opening batsman, and was recalled to the Test team in 2023. In domestic first-class cricket he plays for

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, and in the

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he has played for the

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and

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Early life and domestic career

Matt Renshaw was born in

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, England. His family moved to New Zealand when he was seven, and then to Australia when he was ten. He attended

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. He scored his maiden first-class century on 6 December 2015 in the 2015–16 Sheffield Shield against

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. He made his

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debut for the National Performance Squad against

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on 27 August 2016. In March 2018,

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named Renshaw in their

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team of the year after making 686 runs. In December 2018, he made a record score for Brisbane senior cricket: 345 for

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off 273 balls, with 38 fours and 12 sixes. Ahead of the

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, Renshaw was named as one of the six cricketers to watch during the tournament. From 2018 to 2019, he played for

before moving to

for the

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. He also signed a three-year contract with the

in September 2020. After two seasons with Adelaide, he returned to the Brisbane Heat for the 2022–23 Big Bash League season.

English county cricket

Following the ball-tampering incident in South Africa, and the subsequent nine-month ban for Renshaw's international teammate

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, Renshaw was signed to replace Bancroft as an international player at

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for the 2018 English cricket season. He made his debut for Somerset on 20 April 2018 against

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, scoring 101

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, exactly half of Somerset's first innings total of 202, and went on to score 513 runs at an

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of 51.13 in six Championship matches for the county, scoring another century in his second match.Matthew Renshaw: Kent sign Australia batsman for part of 2019

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, 8 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.Stokes M (2019
Kent sign Australian Test batsman Matt Renshaw
''

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'', 8 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019. He also scored 180 runs in six List A appearances for Somerset before his spell at the county was cut short following a broken finger.Matt Renshaw: Injury ends Australia batsman's Somerset spell

, 23 June 2018. Retrieve 9 February 2019. In February 2019, Renshaw agreed to play for

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for the early stages of the season leading up to the

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. Playing for Kent in a one-day match against Sussex on 21 April 2019 Renshaw top-scored with 109 off 111 balls In January 2022, Renshaw re-signed for Somerset ahead of the 2022 domestic season in England.

International career

In November 2016 he was added to Australia's

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squad ahead of the third Test against South Africa. He made his Test debut on 24 November 2016 as an opening batsman, replacing his opening partner in

, Joe Burns. His

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cap was presented by

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. Renshaw scored his first Test century, 184, against

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at the

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in his fourth match. He became the 133rd Test centurion for Australia. Renshaw became the first Australian cricketer to score 500 Test runs before turning 21 years of age and has scored the most number of Test runs before turning 21 years for Australia, with 524. Renshaw played ten tests in 2016 and 2017, but had poor form in the tours of

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and

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in 2017, and lost his place in the test team to

. Following the 2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal and the suspension of Bancroft,

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and captain

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, Renshaw was recalled to the team for the fourth and final Test of the 2018 test series against South Africa. In April 2018, following the South African series, he was awarded a national contract by

for the 2018–19 season, and was in the Test squad for the tour of the UAE against Pakistan. However Renshaw suffered an injury in a warm-up game, and did not play in the Test series against Pakistan. He then had poor form the following summer and could not break back into the Test team. In April 2019, it was announced that Renshaw had not been offered a central Cricket Australia contract for the 2019–20 season. In March 2022, Renshaw was added to Australia's

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(ODI) squad for their series against Pakistan, but did not play a game. After being out of the Test team for more than four years, Renshaw was recalled in January 2023, in the final Test of the 2022–23 series against South Africa, batting in the middle order to replace the injured

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. He kept his place in the team in the first Test of the Australian tour of India in February–March 2023. He was initially dropped for the second Test, but played in the second innings as a concussion substitute, before being dropped again for the third Test.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Renshaw, Matt 1996 births Living people People from Middlesbrough English emigrants to New Zealand English emigrants to Australia Australian cricketers Australia Test cricketers Queensland cricketers Somerset cricketers Brisbane Heat cricketers Kent cricketers People educated at Brisbane Grammar School Adelaide Strikers cricketers