Matthew Wade

Matthew Scott Wade is an Australian Left-handed batsman and wicketkeeper. He was born on 26 December 1987 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He is colour blind and even battled testicular cancer and conquered it.

Wade led Australia as a captain for the first time in an international cricket match in December 2020. Following the final Sheffield Shield match of the 2023–24 season, he announced his retirement from red ball cricket on the 15th of March 2024.

Matthew Wade: Along the Years 

Matthew Wade Records 

• Named Player of the Match on his ODI debut against India in 2011.

• First Australian wicketkeeper to bowl in a test match since Rod Marsh

• Bowled a maiden in his first test over

Matthew Wade Career 

Australian cricketer Matthew Wade  is famed for his career achievements and success in the World Cup tournaments. He has won many honours and is currently the top-ranked test bowler in the world. Known for his dynamic leadership, Cummins has played for a number of domestic and regional cricket teams. He was a member of the Australian side that won the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Cummins was the winning captain of both the 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. 

Matthew Wade Domestic Career 

Wade played cricket, in addition to Aussie Rules Football till the age of 19. He participated in the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He was the vice-captain of Tassie Mariners in the TAC Cup in Aussie Rules.

He represented Tasmania in one List A match and then moved to Victoria for the 2007–08 season to try his luck. He soon made his place as Victoria's first-choice keeper, and was thus in 2010, selected in the Australia A side.

After Wade moved to Victoria in the 2007–08 season, he established himself as the state's first choice wicket keeper ahead of Adam Crosthwaite.

In the 2008–09 season, Wade scored his maiden first-class century. He made a very important contribution to Victoria's win in the 2009–10 during the Sheffield Shield final against Queensland, when he batted at no. 6 with the team at 60 and scored 96 runs for the team. Victoria won the match with a whopping 457 runs and Wade was made man of the match.

Wade scored 152 in February 2015 for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield which was his highest first-class score.

Wade decided to return to his native state of Tasmania for family reasons before the 2017/18 season. With Tim Paine on the Test team, Wade took over as first-choice wicketkeeper, but when Paine returned from national duty, Wade was picked as a specialist batter. Wade was also moved from the Melbourne Renegades to the Hobart Hurricanes of the Big Bash League. He was nominated to the Sheffield Shield team of the year in March 2018.

Midway through the 2018/19 season, Wade was chosen captain of the Tasmanian side and the Hurricanes when Cricket Tasmania decided to remove George Bailey to focus on his batting performance.

In April 2022, he was picked up by the Birmingham Phoenix for the 2022 season of The Hundred in England. In December 2022, Wade was picked by the Karachi Kings as their Platinum Category round choice at the 2023 PSL draft

Matthew Wade IPL Career 

Wade joined the Delhi Daredevils in January 2011 and went on to play three games for the team during the 2011 Indian Premier League. The Gujarat Titans purchased him at the Indian Premier League 2022 auction in February 2022. In 2011, he made his IPL debut. He played 10 matches in the 2022 season and just 2 matches in the latest 2024 IPL season In his 15 IPL games so far, Matthew Wade has scored 183 runs at an average of 13.07 runs per game. 35 runs was his greatest IPL score. Over his IPL career, Matthew Wade has struck two sixes and 23 fours. The Gujarat franchise paid INR 2.40 crores to retain Matthew Wade's in the IPL 2024 season.

Matthew Wade International Career 

Noticing his performance in domestic limited overs cricket, he was called up to the Australian team in October 2011, for the T20I against South Africa.

He made his Test debut on 7th of April against the West Indies at Barbados.

Matthew Wade ODI Career 

Wade was the limited overs wicketkeeper in the Australian team in 2011–12 season during the match against West Indies. Wade was picked up to the Australian One Day International squad for the 2011–12 Commonwealth Bank Series following the T20I series. At the Melbourne Cricket Ground, he scored 67 runs off 69 balls against India to win the Man of the Match award on his debut. He cemented his position as Australia's preferred limited-overs wicket-keeper during the series while often opening the batting.

In the opening ODI of a five-match series against Pakistan on 13 January 2017, Wade hit his first ODI century, coming off 100 balls. He scored 100 runs on the last ball of Australia's innings, and he made the effort while the team was struggling early in the innings at 5 for 78.

He maintained the strike to reach the hundred on the second-last ball when he scored two runs off a ball fumbled into the infield. Wade requested a review after being tagged out LBW earlier in his inning, and the call was reversed. In lieu of an ailing Steve Smith, he was selected Australia's ODI captain for their series against New Zealand on the 27th of January 2017. He was ruled out of the team and deemed unfit for the opening ODI. For the game, Aaron Finch was designated the acting captain. Wade was ruled out of the series before the second ODI of the series because of a back injury; Finch captained the team for the remaining games.

Wade was added to Australia's World Cup squad in July 2019 to fill in for Usman Khawaja, who was forced to withdraw with a hamstring injury that prevented him from playing in the tournament's knockout stages.

As of August 2024, Matthew Wade has played in 97 ODI matches so far. In his ODI career, Matthew Wade has hit 129 fours and 34 sixes. 

Matthew Wade Test Career 

Subsequently, he was also made the Test wicketkeeper as Brad Haddin had to return home. His maiden Test century was of 106 in Roseau. Wade was also part of the Test series against South Africa in November 2012.

Wade retained his position as ODI wicket-keeper for a small period of time whereas lost his Test position to Brad Haddin for the Ashes series held in 2013. He was finally not selected for the Australian squad for the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

Wade wasn't made regular to the Test team until November 2016, which was three and a half years after his last Test match. He was chosen over a struggling Nevill for the third Test against South Africa and the home series against Pakistan. He was included in Australia's team for the England Ashes series in July 2019. Wade appeared in all five games and scored 337 runs at an average of 33.70 over ten innings, including two hundreds. The series ended in a 2-2 tie. Before the 2020–21 season, Wade received a central contract from Cricket Australia in April 2020.

As of now, August, Matthew Wade has appeared in 36 Test matches and amassed 1,613 runs at an average of 29.87. Throughout his Test career, Matthew Wade has struck 175 fours and 12 sixes. He recently participated in a Test match at Brisbane Cricket Ground in Brisbane, Australia, against India in January 2021, and he scored 45 runs off 87 balls. In Test matches, he has four hundreds to his name. In September 2019, he achieved his greatest Test score of 117 at The Oval against England.

Matthew Wade  T20I Career 

He got international limelight in February 2012, as a T20I player in Australia vs India in Sydney, being the opener and scoring 72 runs from 43 balls to get the Man of the Match award.

Because of his T20 performance, Wade made it to the Australian ODI team for the 2011–12 Commonwealth Bank Series. He won the Man of the Match award again, that too against India scoring 67 runs off 69 balls at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

After Aaron Finch was ruled out due to injury, Wade captained Australia for the first time on 6 December 2020, at the SCG in a Twenty20 International match against India. He was selected as captain for Australia's five-match Twenty20 International series against Bangladesh in August 2021. Wade was included in Australia's team for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup later that month.

He was included in Australia's team for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup in May of that year.

In his 92 T20 games so far, Matthew Wade has scored 1,202 runs at an average of 26. Throughout his T20 career, Matthew Wade has struck 46 sixes and 95 fours. 

Matthew Wade Captaincy 

Wade scored his maiden ODI century on 13 January 2017 in the first ODI against Pakistan and on 27th of same month he was named as ODI captain of Australia for their series against New Zealand.

Matthew Wade Under-19 Career 

Wade was a skilled young football player who chose to pursue cricket instead of football since he was too small to play the game professionally at 170 cm. Even though he was diagnosed with testicular cancer at the age of 16, it took two rounds of chemotherapy for him to overcome the disease. His sheer tenacity helped him overcome the illness and shine for his nation in the international format of the game.

He made a spectacular comeback and proceeded to play for Australia in the 2006 U-19 World Cup. 

In addition to being a very effective player behind the wickets, he made some significant runs that ultimately led to his List A cricket debut. Wade was selected to play for Tasmania in the Ford Ranger Cup in 2006–07, however he only appeared in the starting lineup once. After that, he made the decision to go to Victoria for the 2007–08 season, and soon after, he was selected as the first choice. When he realised he would be waiting in the Tasmania wicketkeeping queue behind Tim Paine, he made the transfer from Hobart to Melbourne. He was given an opportunity by Victoria, and he seized it, making his first-class debut with 83 runs and six catches. Later, Wade would captain Victoria to victory in the Sheffield Shield, helping them to win two titles in their hat-trick of victories between 2015 and 2017

Matthew Wade Family 

Wade was born on the 26th of December 1987, in Hobart. His father, Scott Wade, was an Australian rules footballer who played for Clarence and Hobart in the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and AFL Tasmania for a long period of time. Michael Wade, his grandpa, presided over the Hobart Football Club as its president. Wade is the cousin of Jeremy Howe, a defender for Collingwood Football Club.

Matthew Wade Net Worth 

There is no authentic information on the net worth of Matthew Wade. The majority of his income stems from international matches, brand endorsements, domestic circuits and T20 leagues across the globe. Matthew Wade was signed by the GT for INR 2.4 crore in the 2022 IPL auction.

Matthew Wade House 

Matthew Wade owns a lavish house in Tasmania. According to reports by RealEstate, his house is located at 23 Talune Street in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, on the market, with price hopes above $2.5 million.

Matthew Wade Cars 

There is no authentic information about his car collection.