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Andrew McDonald

Australia

Full name Andrew Barry McDonald

Born June 5, 1981, Wodonga, Victoria

Current age 32 years 316 days

Major teams Australia, Australia A, Delhi Daredevils, Leicestershire, Melbourne Renegades, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Uva Next, Victoria

Nickname Ronnie

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Height 1.94 m

Relation Brother - BG McDonald

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	4	6	1	107	68	21.40	217	49.30	0	1	11	0	2
First-class	93	151	33	4699	176*	39.82	7766	60.50	11	24			65
List A	99	85	23	1835	67	29.59	2213	82.91	0	8			42
Twenty20	87	76	26	1677	96*	33.54	1325	126.56	0	11	128	42	32

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	4	7	732	300	9	3/25	3/72	33.33	2.45	81.3	0	0
First-class	93		12632	5776	201	6/34		28.73	2.74	62.8	8	5
List A	99		3707	3147	79	5/38	5/38	39.83	5.09	46.9	1	1
Twenty20	87	80	1434	1830	78	5/13	5/13	23.46	7.65	18.3	1	1

Career statistics

Test debut	Australia v South Africa at Sydney, Jan 3-7, 2009 scorecard
Last Test	South Africa v Australia at Cape Town, Mar 19-22, 2009 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut	2001/02
Last First-class	Tasmania v South Australia at Hobart, Mar 11-13, 2014 scorecard
List A debut	2001/02
Last List A	South Australia v Western Australia at Sydney, Oct 17, 2013 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Western Australia v Victoria at Perth, Jan 6, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Delhi Daredevils at Bangalore, Apr 16, 2013 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
83, 5*	South Aust	v Tasmania	Hobart	11 Mar 2014	FC
15, 0/18, 23	South Aust	v NSW	Adelaide	3 Mar 2014	FC
24, 18	S Aust U23s	v Qld U23s	Adelaide	24 Feb 2014	Other
7	South Aust	v Western Aust	Sydney	17 Oct 2013	LA
10	South Aust	v Tasmania	Sydney	12 Oct 2013	LA
20	South Aust	v Tasmania	Sydney	9 Oct 2013	LA
1/17, 0	RCB	v Daredevils	Bangalore	16 Apr 2013	T20
1/22	Victoria	v Western Aust	Melbourne	7 Nov 2012	LA
0, 1/47	Australia A	v Sth Africans	Sydney	2 Nov 2012	FC
33, 0/25	Victoria	v Tasmania	Melbourne	28 Oct 2012	LA

Profile

Andrew McDonald gave hope to all Sheffield Shield players in 2008-09 when he was a surprise pick for the Test team. He played four matches in a row against South Africa and was an energetic member of the Ashes squad without appearing in a major game. After heading back to the domestic ranks he had a useful home summer, held on to his national contract and went to England for a stint with Leicestershire.

A handy allrounder, McDonald does not have the star quality of Flintoff, Symonds or Watson, but he showed Ricky Ponting he could be an important role player with the ball. He started at the SCG batting at No. 6 and quickly lost his helmet - but not his head - after receiving a Morne Morkel bouncer. However, he did not score more than his initial 15 until the last act of the series in South Africa, where his 68 could not stop an innings defeat. More value was displayed in his medium pace, which rarely strayed and allowed pressure to be built while the main men attacked at the other end. There were three wickets on debut and he claimed at least one victim in the rest of his games.

On the state scene McDonald collected an impressive 28 first-class breakthroughs in 2009-10 to go with 433 runs, a haul which helped Victoria to the Sheffield Shield. The previous summer he scored 356 Sheffield Shield runs at 44.5 and took 22 wickets at 21.31, as well as being a key performer in the one-day side. There was also a consistent season in 2007-08 after enjoying a breakthrough campaign the previous summer.

He helped Victoria reach the Pura Cup final with 545 runs at 49.54 combined with 13 wickets at 37.92. McDonald added his second first-class century when he led a fightback with 139 against South Australia at the Junction Oval, after reaching triple-figures for the first time in 2006-07. That season he was exceptional, topping Victoria's Pura Cup wicket tally and finishing second to Brad Hodge in their batting averages. He came into the summer with one first-class half-century; he added six more and averaged 57.69. His 29 dismissals were invaluable in an injury-ravaged Bushrangers attack and his 6 for 34 against Queensland was a career-best.

His red hair and surname inevitably invited the nickname Ronnie, but there was no clowning around from McDonald in 2006-07, when he became only the fifth player in Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup history to make 750 runs and take 25 wickets in a season. Not surprisingly, he was Victoria's Pura Cup Player of the Year and earned a part-time Academy place for 2007, and was picked in the Australia A squad to tour Pakistan in September but had to pull out due to a shoulder injury.

A former Australia Under-19 player, McDonald was tipped for a bright future after picking up 32 wickets in ten games in 2003-04. Backed by a haul of 6 for 67 against Western Australia and another burst of 4 for 2 in 14 balls, he seemed ready to settle in the side. However, the following summer he had finger surgery and his appearances became less frequent. The 2005-06 campaign was subdued but he burst back and remains one of the keys to Victoria's chances of four-day and one-day success.
Cricinfo staff July 2010