Trent Copeland
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Trent Aaron Copeland is an Australian cricket
player. He is a right-arm fast bowler who currently plays first-class cricket
for the New South Wales Blues
. He made his Test debut for Australia against Sri Lanka in August 2011.
He made his first class debut for NSW against Queensland at the SCG on 27 January 2010 and took a remarkable 8/92 in the first innings. It was the second-best figures in a maiden first-class fixture for New South Wales.
Copeland took an impressive 35 wickets at 17.57 in his first Sheffield Shield season. Despite playing just 5 games he was the third highest wicket taker behind only Ben Cutting and Peter George who both played the full 10 games – twice as many as Copeland. He was also named in the ACA four-day team of the year tow seasons in a row 2009/10 and 2010/11.
Aside from his cricketing career, Copeland also represented the Australian College of Physical Education
with great aplomb, often being selected for the highly competitive Australian University Games team. Trent represented ACPE at baseball and touch football. He is engaged to Australian Diamonds and NSW Swifts netballer Kimberlee Green
.
Trent won the Allan Border Medal – Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year 2010. He was also recently named in the Australia A four-day and one-day squads to tour Zimbabwe in July 2011, and was subsequently named in the test squad to tour Sri Lanka
in August 2011.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
player. He is a right-arm fast bowler who currently plays first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
for the New South Wales Blues
New South Wales Blues
The New South Wales cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales...
. He made his Test debut for Australia against Sri Lanka in August 2011.
Cricket
Originally from Bathurst, Trent Copeland came through the St George Club and was the second highest wicket-taker with 61 at 16.62 in the Sydney Grade competition in 2008–09.He made his first class debut for NSW against Queensland at the SCG on 27 January 2010 and took a remarkable 8/92 in the first innings. It was the second-best figures in a maiden first-class fixture for New South Wales.
Copeland took an impressive 35 wickets at 17.57 in his first Sheffield Shield season. Despite playing just 5 games he was the third highest wicket taker behind only Ben Cutting and Peter George who both played the full 10 games – twice as many as Copeland. He was also named in the ACA four-day team of the year tow seasons in a row 2009/10 and 2010/11.
Aside from his cricketing career, Copeland also represented the Australian College of Physical Education
Australian College of Physical Education
The Australian College of Physical Education is an independent specialist tertiary education institution in Sydney, Australia. The college offers degree programmes in physical education, sports coaching, health and fitness, dance education, and sports management...
with great aplomb, often being selected for the highly competitive Australian University Games team. Trent represented ACPE at baseball and touch football. He is engaged to Australian Diamonds and NSW Swifts netballer Kimberlee Green
Kimberlee Green
Kimberlee Green is an Australian international netball player. Green played six years in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, for the Sydney Swifts and AIS Canberra Darters. With the start of the ANZ Championship, Green signed with Sydney franchise the New South Wales Swifts, which won the inaugural...
.
Trent won the Allan Border Medal – Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year 2010. He was also recently named in the Australia A four-day and one-day squads to tour Zimbabwe in July 2011, and was subsequently named in the test squad to tour Sri Lanka
Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2011
The Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 20 September 2011. The tour consisted of two Twenty20 Internationals , five One Day Internationals and three Tests played for Warne-Muralidaran Trophy. Four uncapped players had been named in the Australian Test squad; Shaun Marsh,...
in August 2011.