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Aaron O'Brien

Australia

Full name Aaron Warren O'Brien

Born October 2, 1981, St Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales

Current age 28 years 54 days

Major teams Australia Under-19s, New South Wales, South Australia

Nickname Obi

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Height 1.82 m

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
First-class	32	50	7	1261	147	29.32	2540	49.64	1	6			18
List A	41	37	10	897	62*	33.22	1253	71.58	0	5			12
Twenty20	13	12	4	122	38	15.25	103	118.44	0	0	8	1	3

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR
First-class	32		3092	1433	30	3/49		47.76	2.78	103.0
List A	41		1273	1032	21	3/55	3/55	49.14	4.86	60.6
Twenty20	13	13	243	313	12	2/7	2/7	26.08	7.72	20.2

Career statistics

First-class debut	2001/02
Last First-class	South Australia v Queensland at Adelaide, Nov 8-11, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	2001/02
Last List A	South Australia v Queensland at Alice Springs, Nov 14, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	New South Wales v Queensland at Sydney, Jan 8, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Tasmania v South Australia at Launceston, Jan 15, 2009 scorecard

Profile

After consecutive lean seasons for his native New South Wales, Aaron O'Brien signed with South Australia for 2008-09 and the fresh start reignited a promising career. His move west was rewarded with his most consistent season for some time. He managed 392 runs in nine Sheffield Shield matches - though a top score of 63 was disappointing - as well as appearances in all one-day games. The steady effort was mounted on the back of a sliding cricket career for O'Brien, who had fallen by the wayside at New South Wales. His previous summer had consisted of only three Twenty20 outings for the Blues, which was well down on his five Pura Cup games and five one-dayers in 2006-07. He was unlucky to be dropped from the limited-overs team after opening that campaign with two half-centuries and he finished with 171 runs at 42.75. His first-class form was weaker and he made 195 runs at 19.5. The previous year, in 2005-06, he had started to turn potential into results as a middle-order batsman and left-arm orthodox spinner.

O'Brien's first game for New South Wales came in 2001-02 and he played matches in four consecutive seasons without securing a consistent berth. He missed only one contest for the Blues in 2005-06 as he scored 468 runs at 36 in the Pura Cup - the outstanding effort was 147 in the win over Western Australia, still his sole first-class hundred - and another 277 at 39.57 to finish in third place on the state's one-day list. His bowling returns have been modest but he has been dangerous and economical in the Twenty20 format.
Cricinfo staff May 2009