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Alana Maria King is an Australian international cricketer known for her right-arm leg-spin bowling and right-handed batting as a bowling all-rounder.
Born on 22 November 1995 in Clarinda, Victoria, she stands about 160 cm tall and has represented Australia across all three formats since her debut in early 2022.
Of Anglo-Indian heritage, her parents, Leroy and Sharon King, originally from Chennai, India, migrated to Australia in the 1980s.
King grew up in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, attended Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College in Bentleigh, and initially pursued tennis from the age of five.
She even served as a ball kid at the 2011 Australian Open women’s singles final.
Siblings
Alana has one sibling, an older brother named Marc King.
Born in 1992, Marc played representative cricket in Melbourne’s local leagues and was a key influence on his sister’s path into the sport.
The family often notes that Alana followed in his footsteps, joining him and their father in backyard games and later playing alongside boys at Oakleigh Cricket Club until her mid-teens.
Career
King’s professional journey began with a rookie contract for Victoria’s VicSpirit side in the Women’s National Cricket League at age 16 in 2012.
She earned a surprise selection for the Melbourne Stars in the inaugural Women’s Big Bash League season of 2015–16.
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Opportunities remained limited early on, prompting a move to Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers ahead of the 2021–22 season for greater game time.
That shift proved pivotal: she claimed 16 wickets as joint-fifth highest wicket-taker in WBBL|07, helping the Scorchers to the title, and secured a place in the Team of the Tournament.
International recognition followed swiftly.
In January 2022, she debuted in all three formats within roughly two weeks during the Women’s Ashes against England—T20I on 20 January, Test on 27 January, and ODI on 3 February—initially as a replacement for injured spinners.
She quickly established herself as Australia’s primary leg-spinner.
In the 2022 Women’s ODI World Cup in New Zealand, she took 12 wickets, including three in the final against England, contributing to Australia’s victory.
Later that year she won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
She was part of the successful 2023 T20 World Cup-winning squad in South Africa and continued as a mainstay in subsequent campaigns, including the 2024 and 2025 T20 World Cups and the 2025 ODI World Cup.
Domestically and in franchise cricket she has featured for Trent Rockets in The Hundred, where she took the first hat-trick by a woman in the competition in 2022, and has appeared in the Women’s Premier League.
In the 2024–25 Women’s Ashes she was outstanding, capturing a record-equalling 23 wickets across formats, including match figures of nine wickets (4/45 and 5/53) in the day-night Test at the MCG.
Accolades
King’s achievements include being a member of Australia’s 2022 ODI World Cup-winning team, the 2023 T20 World Cup-winning side, and the gold-medal-winning Commonwealth Games cricket team in 2022.
She was named Player of the Series in the 2024–25 Women’s Ashes for her 23 wickets and received the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award for February 2025.
In the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup she recorded the best figures in the tournament’s history with 7/18 against South Africa, the first seven-wicket haul by a woman in an ODI World Cup match, and finished with 13 wickets while earning a place in the ICC Team of the Tournament.
She became only the second woman to have her name etched on the MCG honours board after a five-wicket haul in the 2025 Ashes Test.
Additional milestones include the first female hat-trick in The Hundred and consistent recognition as one of the leading wrist-spinners in the women’s game.
