Profile
Australian George Bailey made headlines when he led Tasmania to a title victory in his first stint as captain in 2009-10. Over the years, he became an important asset to Tasmania’s middle-order. Bailey has also represented Australia at the Under-19 level.
The right-hander made his first-class debut in 2004-05 and in the next season, scored 778 runs that included three centuries. The summer of 2008-09 brought him many more domestic runs (673 runs in Sheffield Shield) and also a place in the Australia A tour of India in late 2008. Eventually, he was handed over the captaincy in 2009-10 and in his first season itself, he led his team to the FR Cup title, being the competition’s second-highest run-scorer (538 runs) at a staggering average of 59.77. He was then included in Australia’s squad for the Chappell-Hadlee series in 2010. However, an international debut came only two years later, in a T20I against India. ODI debut followed against the West Indies.
Bailey was signed by the Chennai in 2009 for the IPL and was re-signed in 2011. The following year, he succeeded Cameron White as Australia’s Twenty20 captain.
Fast Facts
- George Bailey became only the second Australian cricketer after Dave Gregory in 1877, to be named captain on debut in any format.
Statistics
Show:
| |
Matches |
Innings |
Runs |
NO |
Avg. |
SR |
100's |
50's |
HS |
| ODI |
21 |
20 |
764 |
3 |
44.94 |
84.04 |
1 |
4 |
125* |
| T20 |
16 |
13 |
274 |
3 |
27.4 |
132.36 |
0 |
1 |
63 |
| IPL |
4 |
3 |
63 |
0 |
21 |
95.45 |
0 |
0 |
30 |
| |
Catches |
Stumpings |
Runouts |
| ODI |
15 |
0 |
2 |
| T20 |
8 |
0 |
1 |
| |
Matches |
Won |
Lost |
Tie |
No Result |
Win percentage |
| ODI |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
66.67 |
| T20 |
16 |
7 |
8 |
1 |
0 |
43.75 |
Career
Span:
- ODI:
- 2012-2013
- T20:
- 2012-2013
- IPL:
- 2009-2010
- ODI
-
- Debut:
- Australia Vs West Indies at Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent - Mar 16, 2012
- Last played:
- Australia Vs West Indies at Manuka Oval, Canberra - Feb 06, 2013
- T20
-
- Debut:
- Australia Vs India at Stadium Australia, Sydney - Feb 01, 2012
- Last played:
- Australia Vs West Indies at Brisbane Cricket Ground (Woolloongabba), Brisbane - Feb 13, 2013
- IPL
-
- Debut:
- Chennai Vs Punjab at SuperSport Park, Centurion - May 07, 2009
- Last played:
- Chennai Vs Bangalore at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru (Bangalore) - Mar 23, 2010
