Adam Collins is an Australian cricket journalist, author, and broadcaster.
17 Facts About Adam Collins
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Adam Collins was named the 2020 Cricket Writers' Club Christopher Martin-Jenkins Broadcaster of the Year.
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Adam Collins worked as a media advisor to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and was on the staff of federal treasurer Wayne Swan.
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Adam Collins won the 2017 NRMA Kennedy Award for Outstanding Sports Reporting for a David Warner front page exclusive in the Sydney Morning Herald in which, during a pay dispute, Warner revealed Cricket Australia wouldn't have a team for the upcoming Ashes series if they didn't meet the players demands.
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Adam Collins initially cut his teeth on radio via the short lived cult classic show 'Believe The Hype' on Melbourne's SYNFM 90.7.
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In 2018 however, with no official broadcaster taking them, Adam Collins bought the radio rights to the Australian national cricket team Test match series against Pakistan for a five-figure sum.
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Adam Collins hired Geoff Lemon as a co-commentator, with Brendan Julian, Mike Hussey and Bazid Khan as pundits, and struck a deal to stream the commentary on the Wisden website.
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Adam Collins was part of the world feed commentary team for the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup and for ABC Radio Grandstand for the 2017 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series.
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In 2018 Adam Collins was on for 1116 SEN as the 2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal unfolded.
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In 2019 Adam Collins was commenting for SEN on the denouement to the 2019 Cricket World Cup Final at Lord's between England and New Zealand which he described as a career highlight.
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Adam Collins was named the 2020 Cricket Writers' Club Christopher Martin-Jenkins Broadcaster of the Year.
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Adam Collins has guested on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast.
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In 2020 Adam Collins co-hosted, with Daniel Norcross, a 6-part documentary series on the history of cricket commentary called Calling the Shots which was made for the Pinch Hitter, which was a pop-up digital mag made during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Adam Collins co-hosted The Greatest Season That Was with Daniel Brettig and Shannon Gill.
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Adam Collins commented on the positive impact watching Victoria and Australia cricketer Dean Jones had on him as a youngster.
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Aged 18, Adam Collins drove to the Australian Cricket Board's headquarters to complain about the dropping of Mark Waugh from the test team.
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Adam Collins is a relative of Australian novelist Joseph Furphy and Collins' father changed the family surname to Collins because Tom Collins was the pen name Furphy used.