Oliver Davies (born 14 October 2000) is an Australian

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er. He made his

Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...

debut on 22 December 2020, for the

Sydney Thunder The Sydney Thunder are an Australian franchise professional cricket team, competing in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League. Along with the Sydney Sixers, the Thunder are the successors of the New South Wale ...

, in the

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. Prior to his Twenty20 debut, he was named in Australia's squad for the

2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup The 2020 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament that was held in South Africa from 17 January to 9 February 2020. It was the thirteenth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the second to be ...

. He made his

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

debut on 15 February 2021, for

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in the

2020–21 Marsh One-Day Cup The 2021 Marsh One-Day Cup was the 52nd season of the official List A domestic cricket competition being played in Australia. On 26 June 2020, Cricket Australia confirmed all the squads for the 2020–21 domestic cricket season. Western Australi ...

. He made his First class debut on 2 March 2023, for

in the 2022–23 Sheffield Shield season.

Personal life

Ollie attended

St Paul's College, Manly St. Paul's Catholic College (formerly named Christian Brothers College, Manly) is a diocesan Catholic school, Catholic Secondary school, secondary day school for boys, located in , on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The ...

and was in the same year as soccer player Calem Nieuwenhof. His younger brother, Joel Davies, is also a cricketer, who signed with Sydney Thunder during the 2022/23 Big Bash League season. Through their mum, the Davies brothers are eligible to get a Trinidad passport and grew up supporting both Australia and the West Indies.

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* Living people 2000 births Australian cricketers New South Wales cricketers Sydney Thunder cricketers Cricketers from Sydney {{Australia-cricket-bio-2000s-stub