Justin Avendano
Australian cricketer (born 1993)
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Justin Avendano (born 11 August 1993) is an Australian cricketer who has represented the Sydney Sixers and the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League.[1][2][3][4]
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| Full name | Justin Avendano | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 August 1993 | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Avocado | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2018/19–2020/21 | Sydney Sixers (squad no. 32) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021/22 | Melbourne Stars | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 28 January 2022 | |||||||||||||||
Avendano plays club cricket for North Sydney and for the Cricket NSW High Performance Transition Academy squad. In 2012 featured on the FOX Sports reality show Cricket Superstar.[5] Avendano is a big hitting batsman and in a Sydney Sixers Academy match in November 2018 against Auckland at the Hurtsville Oval, his innings of 122 from 63 balls included hitting the maximum 6 sixes in one single 6-ball over. Avendano also hit a century opening the batting in a development game for the Sixers Academy against the Lahore Qalanders at the Blacktown International Sports Park in October 2017.[6][7][8][9]
He made his Twenty20 debut for Sydney Sixers in the 2018–19 Big Bash League season on 1 January 2019.[10]
In January 2022, Avendano was called up into the Melbourne Stars squad for the 2021–22 Big Bash.[4]
