Brendan Doggett

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Brendan Doggett
Doggett in December 2025
Personal information
Full name
Brendan James Doggett
Born (1994-05-03) 3 May 1994 (age 31)
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 472)21 November 2025 v England
Last Test4 December 2025 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2016/17Cricket Australia XI
2017/18–2020/21Queensland
2017/18–2018/19Brisbane Heat
2019/20–2022/23Sydney Thunder
2021/22–presentSouth Australia
2023/24–2024/25Adelaide Strikers
2025Durham
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA T20
Matches 2 52 17 48
Runs scored 20 406 55 87
Batting average 20.00 8.82 11.00 10.87
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 13 49 28 47*
Balls bowled 290 9,605 835 890
Wickets 7 197 26 43
Bowling average 30.71 26.61 35.80 28.74
5 wickets in innings 0 9 0 1
10 wickets in match 0 1 0 0
Best bowling 3/51 6/15 4/75 5/35
Catches/stumpings 1/– 20/– 6/– 15/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 7 December 2025

Brendan James Doggett (born 3 May 1994) is an Australian international cricketer. He plays in the test side of the Australia national team as a right-arm fast-medium bowler.[1] Doggett is of Worimi heritage and is the fifth First Nations person to represent Australia in test cricket.[2] He represents South Australia in domestic cricket and Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League.[3][4]

Domestic career

Queensland

At the beginning of the 2016–17 season, Doggett earned a rookie contract with the Queensland Bulls, becoming just the second Indigenous Australian to have a contract with the team,[5] but he did not play for them throughout the season, instead making his List A for Cricket Australia XI in the 2016–17 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. He played in the first match against Queensland, and late in the innings he bowled fellow Queenslander Ben Cutting to take his first List A wicket.[6] He took six wickets across four matches in the tournament, the second-most of any player for Cricket Australia XI.[7]

No longer in the Cricket Australia XI squad, Doggett played his first matches for Queensland in the 2017–18 JLT One-Day Cup and took five wickets for the team while conceding 6.19 runs per over in four matches.[8] He then made his first-class debut in the opening round of the 2017–18 Sheffield Shield season. In his first innings of first-class bowling he had impressive figures of 4/33 while Victoria were bowled out for 148.[9] In February 2018, in round eight of the 2017–18 Sheffield Shield season, he took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.[10]

South Australia

In 2021 Doggett moved to Adelaide and began playing for South Australia.[11]

Doggett won the player of the match award in the 2024-25 Sheffield Shield Final, having taken 11 wickets in the match, including 6/31 in the first innings and 5/109 in the second.[12] His efforts led South Australia to their first Sheffield Shield title in 29 years. His match figures of 11/140 were the best ever figures in a Sheffield Shield final.[13]

County Cricket

In February, Doggett signed a short-term contract with Durham County Cricket Club to play for them in the first two months of the 2025 County Championship season.[14]

International career

In September 2018, he was named in Australia's Test squad for their series against Pakistan, but he did not play.[15][16] He was selected for Australia A as an injury replacement for the India A tour of Australia in 2024–25. In the first unofficial Test, he took his third five-wicket haul with figures of 6/15.[17] In November 2024, he was added to the Australian Test squad ahead of the second Test of the Indian tour of Australia as an injury replacement for Josh Hazlewood,[18] but did not play.

Doggett made his Test debut in the first Test of the 2025–26 Ashes series, in Perth, on 21 November, 2025. He became the fifth Indigenous player to play for the Australian men's Test team. With he and Scott Boland playing, it was also the first time two Indigenous players had played in an Australian men's Test team together.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Sundaresan, Bharat. "Brendan Doggett: The humble 'chippy' who became a Test cricketer". cricbuzz.
  2. ↑ "Ashes debutant Brendan Doggett becomes fifth Indigenous player to represent Australia in Test cricket". ABC News. 20 November 2025. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  3. ↑ "Old bull Doggett finds perspective and growth in SA journey | cricket.com.au". www.cricket.com.au. 25 March 2025. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "Doggett joins Strikers fast bowling brigade | Adelaide Strikers". www.adelaidestrikers.com.au. 23 August 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  5. ↑ Dorries, Ben (3 August 2016). "Brendan Doggett just second indigenous player to earn Queensland contract". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Queensland get the better of Cricket Australia XI". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. 1 October 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Matador BBQs One-Day Cup, 2016/17 – Cricket Australia XI / Records / Batting and bowling averages". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Records / JLT One-Day Cup, 2017/18 – Queensland / Batting and bowling averages". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  9. ↑ Brettig, Daniel (27 October 2017). "Khawaja, Doggett put Queensland in command". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  10. ↑ "Bulls triumph despite Head, Carey fireworks". cricket.com.au. Cricket Australia. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  11. ↑ "Brendan Doggett". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  12. ↑ "Sangha and Carey tons hand South Australia first Shield title in 29 years". ESPNCricinfo. 29 March 2025.
  13. ↑ "Brendan Doggett's figures at the Karen Rolton Oval are the best-ever returns in a Shield decider!". cricket.com.au. 28 March 2025 – via Instagram.
  14. ↑ "Durham sign Australian seamer Doggett". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  15. ↑ "Maxwell out as Bulls, Finch bolt into Test squad". cricket.com.au. Cricket Australia. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  16. ↑ "Australia Test squad for UAE: The newcomers". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  17. ↑ McGlashan, Andrew (31 October 2024). "Konstas, Bancroft and Harris unable to make an impression against India A". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  18. ↑ "Aussies hit with major injury blow ahead of second India Test". ABC News. 30 November 2024. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
  19. ↑ Ashes debutant Brendan Doggett becomes fifth Indigenous player to represent Australia in Test cricket, ABC News, 21 November, 2025