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Cricket
MitchellStarc
Mitchell Starc bowls left-arm fast for Australia and represents New South Wales, with Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League and a Wisden award.
Overview
Mitchell Starc bowls left-arm fast and bats left-handed, giving Australia a specialist wicket-taking option with the ball and a modest batting contribution. That left-arm style and his batting hand define his role: he is a bowler first, valued for wickets rather than containment. He can also contribute with the bat, though his primary value is wickets. In ODI cricket, his wickets are the headline part of his statistical profile.
Starc represents Australia and New South Wales, with Sydney Sixers as his Big Bash League side. He has appeared in 130 ODIs and taken 247 wickets, making him a wicket-taking bowler in that format. Wisden named him its cricketer of the year in 2024. Yorkshire and Royal Challengers Bengaluru feature among his former teams. His batting, left-handed, has produced modest returns, but the wickets define his career.
ODI career
Source: Wikipedia infobox (ESPNcricinfo), 23 AugustCareer
Questions fans ask
Left-handed at the crease, he bowls left-arm fast and measures 1.97 m in height as a specialist quick.
His role is as a bowler, and in one-day internationals he has taken 247 wickets from 130 matches.
Born on 30 January 1990 in Baulkham Hills, Australia, he is 36 years old.
Across his ODI career he has scored 583 runs at a batting average of 11.66.
New South Wales and the Sydney Sixers are his teams, with the Sixers playing in the Big Bash League, and he represents Australia internationally.