Australian cricketer (born 1992)
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Adam ?ampa
.
Adam Zampa
(born 31 March 1992) is an Australian international
cricketer
who represents
Australian cricket team
in
limited-overs cricket
. Zampa was a member of the Australian teams that won the
2023 Cricket World Cup
and the
2021 T20 World Cup
.
Youth career
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As a child, Zampa bowled
medium pace
, but
Cricket Australia
had placed restrictions on how many overs pace bowlers were allowed to bowl in under-14 matches, so he decided to change his bowling style to
leg spin
, inspired by Australian Test cricketer
Shane Warne
.
[1]
Zampa made his way into
Australia's under-19 team
in 2009 and has earned a rookie contract with the Blues in 2010
[2]
after playing a role by representing Australia in their successful
2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
campaign.
[3]
Zampa played in two youth Test matches and eight youth ODIs, taking 11 wickets across the two formats.
[4]
[5]
Domestic career (2010?2016)
[
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In New South Wales (2010?2013)
[
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As a result of Zampa's youth career for Australia, he was given a rookie contract with
New South Wales
in 2010,
[3]
but he didn't get any opportunities to prove himself at state-level because New South Wales also had a number of other successful spin bowlers, such as
Nathan Hauritz
,
Steve O'Keefe
and
Steve Smith
.
[1]
He did get another opportunity to represent Australia before his first-class debut, playing in the
2011 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes
.
[6]
Zampa made his
first-class
debut for New South Wales in the
2012?13 Sheffield Shield season
against
Queensland
. He took five wickets in a three-wicket win.
[7]
Despite not having a contract with a
Big Bash League
team until a week before
BBL|02
began, he played for the
Sydney Thunder
and was highly rated by
Trevor Hohns
.
[1]
He finished the season having played three first-class matches, taking ten wickets at an
average
of 23 runs per wicket.
[8]
In South Australia (2013?2016)
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After the season he accepted an offer to play for
South Australia
, in both first-class and one-day matches and for South Australia's
Twenty20
team, the
Adelaide Strikers
. He was tempted by the guaranteed starts he would get in South Australia's team as they had just lost Test spinner
Nathan Lyon
to New South Wales.
[8]
During the 2013 winter, he spent three months training at the
Centre of Excellence
before joining the South Australian squad for the 2013?14 season.
[9]
The move to South Australia proved a useful one for progressing Zampa's career as he had the opportunity to work with experienced South African spinner
Johan Botha
, who was the captain of the South Australian side at the time of his move.
[10]
Zampa had an impressive performance in the
2014?15 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup
, getting on a
hat-trick
and taking overall figures of 4/18 despite South Australia losing the match to Western Australia.
[11]
In 2015, Zampa signed on for the Redbacks for two more seasons, but in order to get more experience, he changed Twenty20 sides to the
Melbourne Stars
, where he would have the opportunity to play alongside international stars
Michael Clarke
and
Kevin Pietersen
.
[12]
The 2015?16 summer was the most successful of Zampa's career to that point. He impressed in both
List A cricket
and Twenty20 cricket, and in 2016, was included in Australia's squad for both
One Day Internationals
and
Twenty20 Internationals
,
[13]
but he struggled in first-class cricket.
[14]
In the
2015?16 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup
, he recorded figures of 4/48 against
Cricket Australia XI
to help take South Australia into the tournament's elimination final.
[15]
In
BBL|05
, he was part of an unusual dismissal,
running out
Peter Nevill
with his
nose
.
[16]
Franchise cricket
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In April 2022, he was bought by the
Welsh Fire
for the
2022 season
of
The Hundred
.
[17]
International career (2016?Onwards)
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He made his
ODI
debut on 6 February 2016 in the second match of
2015?16 Chappell?Hadlee Trophy
series.
[18]
He made his
Twenty20 International
debut for Australia
against South Africa
on 4 March 2016.
[19]
Zampa became a regular member of both the ODI and T20I squad for Australia.
[20]
Zampa was named in Australia's squad for the
2016 World Twenty20
before he'd made his T20I debut for Australia in South Africa.
[21]
Despite how recently he'd been added to the squad, he was Australia's leading wicket-taker with five wickets at an average of 13.80 and an
economy rate
of 6.27,
[20]
including a breakout performance against
Bangladesh
with figures of 3/23.
[22]
With Zampa's rise to Australia's national team he also started to play in Twenty20 franchises as an overseas player. Playing for
Rising Pune Supergiant
in the
Indian Premier League
against the
Sunrisers Hyderabad
, he took 6 wickets for 19 runs and ranked as the third best performance as a bowler in the history of the IPL after 6/14 by
Sohail Tanvir
and 6/12 by
Alzarri Joseph
. Zampa bowled his first over for the match in the 8th over of Sunrisers Hyderabad's innings, but was taken out of the attack immediately without taking a wicket. He wasn't brought back on until the 16th over, in which he took one wicket. Captain
MS Dhoni
gave him an extended spell after his wicket, and he took two wickets in the 18th over and three more wickets in the 20th over, bringing his total to six.
[23]
He was named man of the match for his performance, and this was also the record for the best bowling figures by a bowler in Twenty20 history in a losing side.
[24]
Zampa also played in the
Caribbean Premier League
for the
Guyana Amazon Warriors
, taking the most wickets out of all spin bowlers for the tournament with 15 wickets at an average of 18.46.
[14]
Zampa was surprisingly dropped from Australia's Twenty20 side for the second match of a
three-match series against Sri Lanka in 2016?17
after bowling well in the series opener and taking two wickets. Zampa described being dropped as a "kick in the guts", saying his recent form indicated he was one of the best Twenty20 spin bowlers in the world. Without Zampa Australia lost both the match and the series.
[25]
Zampa was brought back into the side for the final match of the series, and he was named the man of the match with 3/25 as Australia won the game.
[26]
Despite all of Zampa's successes in the shorter forms of cricket, he was still unable to break into Australia's Test side. He was unable to reach exceptional form in the Sheffield Shield, being a victim of South Australia's very strong
pace attack
, with
Chadd Sayers
and
Kane Richardson
taking all of the wickets themselves and not leaving opportunities for Zampa to stand out.
[26]
Australia played a
Test series in India
in early 2017, and former New Zealand captain
Stephen Fleming
touted him as a possible addition to Australia's squad given his ability to bowl well on Indian pitches,
[27]
but he was not included in the squad.
[28]
Instead, Zampa continued playing in the Sheffield Shield and had his first
five-wicket haul
in a first-class innings when he took career-best figures of 6/62 in the first innings against Queensland before taking another four wickets in the second innings to accomplish his first
ten-wicket haul
in a first-class match.
[29]
[30]
Zampa was in Australia's squad for the
2017 ICC Champions Trophy
, but he didn't get many opportunities to play when two of Australia's three group stage matches were washed out and Australia was unable to progress to the finals.
[31]
In April 2019, he was named in
Australia's squad
for the
2019 Cricket World Cup
.
[32]
[33]
In August 2021, Zampa was named in Australia's squad for the
2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup
.
[34]
On 4 November 2021, in Australia's T20 World Cup match against
Bangladesh
, Zampa took his first
five-wicket haul in T20 cricket
.
[35]
In March 2022, during the opening match of the series
against Pakistan
, Zampa took his 100th wicket in ODI cricket.
[36]
In September 2022, he took his first ODI five-wicket haul, against
New Zealand in Cairns
.
[37]
In September 2023, he tied with fellow Australian
Mick Lewis
, the unwanted record of most runs conceded by a bowler in ODIs,going 0/113 versus South Africa. This record was broken on October 25 when
Bas de Leede
of the Netherlands Recorded figures of 2/115 against Australia in the ICC World Cup 2023.
[38]
Zampa played a crucial part in Australia's successful
2023 ICC World
Cup campaign. Zampa came into the tournament as the only specialist spinner in the team after
Ashton Agar
was removed from the squad due to injury.
[39]
On October 16, 2023. He received the man of the match in Australia's first victory of the tournament against
Sri Lanka
with figures of 4/47.
[40]
On 20 October 2023, Zampa was the pick of the bowlers taking 4 wickets giving 53 runs with an economy of 5.30 and helped his team to win over
Pakistan.
[41]
On November 3, 2023, against
England.
Zampa recorded figures of 3/21 dismissing set batsmen
Ben Stokes
and
Moeen Ali
. He also took a difficult catch in the outfield causing the dismissal of
David Willey.
Notably, he also added vital runs to the total from the lower order, scoring 29 runs off 19 deliveries. His all round effort earned him his second man of the match of the tournament.
[42]
Zampa's consistency saw him finish the tournament as the 2nd highest wicket taker in the tournament. Taking 23 wickets from 11 matches, the most wickets ever taken by an Australian Spinner at a World Cup and tying
Murali's
record of the most wickets ever taken at a World Cup by a spinner.
[43]
In May 2024, he was named in Australia’s squad for the
2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup
tournament.
[44]
Personal life
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Zampa is married to Harriet Palmer, the couple have a son.
[45]
[46]
He is
vegan
and has appeared in advertisements for
PETA
.
[47]
Records and achievements
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- First Australian Bowler to Take 100 T20I Wickets.
[48]
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.
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.
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2017
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'It was pretty hard to hit spin today' - Zampa"
.
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.
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2017
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"
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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[
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Singh, Anirudh.
"RCB's Director of Cricket confirms Adam Zampa's marriage"
.
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2021
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
External links
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Jhye Richardson
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Ashton Agar
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