Anthony Ian Christopher Dodemaide (born 5 October 1963) is an
Australian
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former
test cricketer. After a three-year stint as Chief Executive of the
Western Australian Cricket Association
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The WACA was formed on 5 November 1885. In 1893 the association opened the WACA Ground.
Elite cricket
The WACA is responsible ...
in
Perth
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, he became the current chief executive of
Cricket Victoria
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. He is currently a selector for the Australian men's national team.
He took 534
first-class wickets for
Victoria
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and
Sussex. He also took a five-wicket haul on both his Test and
One Day International (ODI) debuts.
International career
Dodemaide began his career as a fast-bowling all-rounder and competed in 10 Tests and 24 One Day Internationals for Australia. Despite healthy batting and bowling averages for an all-rounder at test level (23 and 28 respectively), Dodemaide only made ten Test appearances. On his debut, he took six wickets in the second innings against New Zealand in Melbourne in 1987.
On his debut ODI against
Sri Lanka, he took
5 wickets.
After retirement
He joined the
WACA in May 2004 after five years as the Head of Cricket for the
Marylebone Cricket Club. Prior to the MCC position, he was Manager of Corporate Marketing at the
Melbourne Cricket Club
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. In October 2021, he joined the Cricket Australia panel of selectors.
In the
2022 Australia Day Honours
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The Australia ...
, he was awarded the
Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to sports administration, and to cricket".
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1963 births
Living people
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Australia One Day International cricketers
Australia Test cricketers
Sussex cricketers
Victoria cricketers
People from Williamstown, Victoria
Australian chief executives
Cricketers who have taken five wickets on Test debut
Australian cricketers
Cricketers who have taken five wickets on One Day International debut
Australian cricket administrators
Cricketers from Melbourne
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Australia national cricket team selectors