Cameron Valente
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| Full name | Cameron Valente | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 September 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–present | South Australia (squad no. 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Perth Scorchers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Brisbane Heat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–present | Adelaide Strikers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 14 February 2016 South Australia v Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 23 November 2017 South Australia v Tasmania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List A debut | 2 October 2016 South Australia v Western Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 4 October 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cameron Valente (born 6 September 1994) is an Australian cricketer.[1] He plays as an all-rounder and is contracted to the South Australian Redbacks.[2]
Valente represented South Australia at under-17 and under-19 level before playing for the Australia national under-19 cricket team in the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He rose through the ranks, impressing for South Australia's under-23 team in the Futures League and making his first-class debut in the 2015–16 Sheffield Shield season. His best performances for South Australia have come in List A matches, as he took the equal-most wickets in the 2016–17 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup and has scored two List A centuries.
Valente grew up in Adelaide, where his father played cricket for Flinders University. His mother died of cancer when he was four years old, which meant Valente had to spend much of his time with his father at cricket training and matches. Valente took up cricket himself and began to play grade cricket for Adelaide Cricket Club,[3] eventually representing South Australia at both Under-17 and Under-19 National Championships.[2] In the 2012–13 season he played for Adelaide in A-grade cricket, taking 12 wickets and scoring 174 runs in 10 matches, proving himself enough to be included in Australia's national under-19 team.[3] He played sixteen Youth One Day Internationals for Australia,[4] including playing in the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.[5] After this he earned a Hampshire scholarship to spend two months playing in Hampshire's local league and training in English conditions.[6]