Joe Burns

Australia

Full name Joseph Anthony Burns

Born September 6, 1989, Herston, Brisbane, Queensland

Current age 30 years 73 days

Major teams Australia, Australia A, Brisbane Heat, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Queensland, Queensland Under-19s, Queensland Under-23s, Sussex 2nd XI

Playing role Batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak

Relation Great-uncle - HV Burns

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	16	28	0	1123	180	40.10	1874	59.92	4	4	150	10	18
ODIs	6	6	0	146	69	24.33	184	79.34	0	1	16	1	2
First-class	115	203	14	7578	202*	40.09	13923	54.42	17	43	852	72	110
List A	74	74	11	2287	154	36.30	2844	80.41	3	14	193	55	29
T20s	62	59	9	1255	81*	25.10	1032	121.60	0	5	86	50	19

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	115	9	114	48	1	1/0	1/1	48.00	2.52	114.0	0	0	0
List A	74	2	18	33	1	1/20	1/20	33.00	11.00	18.0	0	0	0
T20s	62	8	54	71	3	1/8	1/8	23.66	7.88	18.0	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Australia v India at Melbourne, Dec 26-30, 2014 scorecard
Last Test	Australia v Sri Lanka at Canberra, Feb 1-4, 2019 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Ireland v Australia at Belfast, Aug 27, 2015 scorecard
Last ODI	England v Australia at Manchester, Sep 13, 2015 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	South Australia v Queensland at Adelaide, Feb 21-24, 2011 scorecard
Last First-class	Australia A v Pakistanis at Perth, Nov 11-13, 2019 scorecard
List A debut	Queensland v Western Australia at Brisbane, Dec 8, 2010 scorecard
Last List A	Queensland v Western Australia at Carrara, Oct 31, 2019 scorecard
T20s debut	Brisbane Heat v Hobart Hurricanes at Brisbane, Dec 9, 2012 scorecard
Last T20s	Brisbane Heat v Melbourne Renegades at Brisbane, Jan 10, 2019 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
0, 11	Australia A	v Pakistanis	Perth	11 Nov 2019	FC
76	Queensland	v West Aust	Brisbane	2 Nov 2019	FC
1	Queensland	v West Aust	Carrara	31 Oct 2019	LA
0	Queensland	v South Aust	Brisbane	23 Oct 2019	LA
39, 22	Queensland	v South Aust	Brisbane	18 Oct 2019	FC
13, 52	Queensland	v NSW	Brisbane	10 Oct 2019	FC
7	Queensland	v Victoria	Melbourne	1 Oct 2019	LA
14	Queensland	v Victoria	Melbourne	29 Sep 2019	LA
65*	Queensland	v South Aust	Brisbane	24 Sep 2019	LA
54*	Queensland	v NSW	Brisbane	22 Sep 2019	LA

Profile

A stylish batsman who plays straight, plays late and has the patience to wait for balls in his area, Joe Burns has proven his worth as a Test match opener for Australia but has battled to bed down a permanent place despite playing in an era where Australia has been desperate for quality Test batsmen.

Burns burst on to the scene with 140 on Sheffield Shield debut against South Australia late in the 2010-11 season, the third highest score on debut by a Queensland player. He became a fixture in the Shield-winning state team the following summer, when he scored 781 runs at 41.10, placing him fifth on the competition tally. Named the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year in 2013, Burns enjoyed a move up the order to become an opener for Queensland. In 2014-15 he was Queensland's leading Shield run scorer with 793 at 52.86, and his Test debut came in the same summer at No.6 as a replacement for the injured Michael Clarke. But despite scoring a pair of fifties in his second game he was dropped for the tours of West Indies and England that followed. He played his initial ODIs in the British Isles following the 2015 Ashes and was chosen for Australia's Test tour of Bangladesh, which was ultimately cancelled due to security concerns.

Burns was confirmed as David Warner's new Test opening partner for Australia's 2015-16 home summer and scored three centuries in eight Tests. But after only four failures on the 2016 tour of Sri Lanka he was dropped. He was recalled for the disastrous Hobart Test against South Africa in November 2016, suffered two unfortunate failures and was again shown no mercy in being discarded for Matt Renshaw. He was prolific in the Sheffield Shield over the next two summers but was overlooked for Cameron Bancroft for the 2017-18 Ashes.

He was recalled in the wake of the Sandpaper disaster in Cape Town and on limited preparation, having been flown in late following a victorious Shield final for Queensland, top-scored in the second innings in Johannesburg but was not selected for the next tour of the UAE. He was also overlooked for start of the 2018-19 the home summer while Australia continued with the Aaron Finch experiment at the top of the order. Burns was finally recalled for the 2019 Sri Lanka series and made his fourth Test hundred in his 16th Test in Canberra.
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Joe Burns

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