Brad Haddin

One of the region’s finest ever cricket products, wicketkeeper-batsman Brad Haddin enjoyed a distinguished career, representing Australia in all three formats of the game and captaining his country in Twenty20 Internationals.Haddin played junior cricket for Queanbeyan but would cross the border to make his first-grade debut for ANU in 1993/94. Two years later he debuted for the ACT and was a key player for the Canberra Comets in the Mercantile Mutual Cup, the domestic 50-over competition. In just the Comets third game, when reeling at 3-28 against Victoria, he went on to blast 89 runs off 91 deliveries to help secure a 15-run victory. His potential was again underlined the following season (1998/99), smashing the Vics for 133 runs in a Comets win at Manuka Oval.

The following season Brad took his talents to NSW, playing for the state until 2014/15. He represented NSW in 97 First Class matches, scoring 5829 runs at 41.93, with 11 centuries and 35 half-centuries, while taking 293 catches and making 25 stumpings. He played a further 89 limited overs matches, scoring 2726 runs with 159 dismissals.
He made his Australian debuts in One Day Internationals in 2000/01 against Zimbabwe, T20 Internationals in 2005/06 and, after a long apprenticeship, made his Test debut in 2008 against the West Indies in Jamaica. He was Australia’s 400th Test cricketer.

Brad Haddin played his final Test for Australia on the 2015 Ashes tour. In 66 Tests, he scored 3265 runs at 32.97, with four centuries and 18 half-centuries. With the gloves, he made 8 stumpings and took 262 catches, including 29 in the 2013 Ashes series. He retired as fourth all-time for dismissals by an Australian keeper and third for batting average.
Over 126 ODI matches, Haddin amassed 3122 runs at 31.53 with two centuries and 16 half-centuries, while he took 170 catches and made 11 stumpings. In 34 T20 Internationals, he scored 402 runs at 17.47 and took 17 catches and had six stumpings. In domestic T20 Haddin captained the Sydney Sixers through their first four seasons in the newly established Big Bash League, playing 26 matches and scoring 602 runs at 26.17.

Brad Haddin was included in the Cricket ACT Hall of Fame in 2021.