Travis Dean

Travis Jeffrey Dean (born 1 February 1992) is an Australian cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Victoria.^[1]

Travis Dean

Personal information
Full name	Travis Jeffrey Dean
Born	(1992-02-01) 1 February 1992 (age 32) Williamstown, Victoria, Australia
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
Role	Opening batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2015/16–present	Victoria
2018/19–2021/22	Melbourne Stars
Career statistics
Competition FC List A T20 Matches 67 12 3 Runs scored 3,480 306 50 Batting average 30.79 30.60 16.66 100s/50s 8/15 1/0 0/0 Top score 154* 119 32 Catches/stumpings 45/– 4/– 0/–
Source: Cricinfo, 14 February 2023

Dean came to attention playing premier cricket for Footscray-Edgewater, and was one of the competition's top batsmen in the 2014-15 season.^[2] Following these performances, Dean was selected to make his first-class debut for Victoria at age 23 on 28 October 2015, in a day-and-night Sheffield Shield match.^[3] In the match he made two unbeaten centuries opening the batting, with scores of 154 not out and 109 not out,^[4] making him the first player to score centuries in both innings on debut in the Sheffield Shield competition, and the second Australian player after Arthur Morris to do so on first-class debut.^[5]

In his second first-class match Dean reached 347 first-class runs before being dismissed, beating the world record set by Border's Ray Watson-Smith, who got to 310 career runs in 1969-70 before being dismissed in his third match.^[6]

Dean scored a century in the 2015/16 Shield final,^[7] finishing his debut Shield season with 807 runs at 44.83.^[8] He made his List A debut for Cricket Australia XI against the Pakistanis during their tour of Australia on 10 January 2017.^[9] He made his Twenty20 debut for Melbourne Stars in the 2018–19 Big Bash League season on 21 December 2018.^[10]

References

1. "Travis Dean". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
2. Luke d'Anello (26 February 2015). "Footscray-Edgewater star Travis Dean turns Premier Cricket run-machine". Maribyrnong Leader. Maribyrnong, VIC.
3. "Sheffield Shield, 2nd Match: Victoria v Queensland at Melbourne, Oct 28-31, 2015". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
4. "Who's the oldest bowler to take a five-for in a Test?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
5. McKay, Ben (31 October 2015). "Dean leads Vics to historic Shield win". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
6. "Sheffield Shield: Victoria captain Matthew Wade and WA all-rounder Hilton Cartwright on opening day". Daily Telegraph. 14 November 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
7. "Sheffield Shield final: Live coverage of South Australia v Victoria". Herald Sun. Melbourne, VIC. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
8. "Sheffield Shield, 2015/16 / Records / Most runs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
9. "Pakistan tour of Australia, Tour Match: Cricket Australia XI v Pakistanis at Brisbane, Jan 10, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
10. "3rd Match (N), Big Bash League at Canberra, Dec 21 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 December 2018.

External links

• Travis Dean at ESPNcricinfo