Jake Weatherald has since had contracts with both South Australia and the Strikers in every season.
11 Facts About Jake Weatherald
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Jake Weatherald had early successes, scoring a century against Papua New Guinea in 2013.
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Jake Weatherald first made his way into the South Australia cricket team in February 2016, replacing underperforming veteran Mark Cosgrove.
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Jake Weatherald scored a half-century in his first-class debut with 58 from 83 balls against New South Wales.
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Jake Weatherald finished with 141 runs, including 17 fours and six sixes on the small ground of Hurstville Oval.
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Across all three forms of cricket, first-class, one-day and Twenty20, Jake Weatherald was the highest run-scorer in Australian domestic cricket under the age of 25 from 11 December 2015 to 9 December 2016, the voting period for the 2017 Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year.
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Jake Weatherald was the runner-up for the award, only behind Australian Test player Hilton Cartwright.
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Jake Weatherald played for a David Warner XI and scored 96 runs from just 52 balls in the first innings, though he was not one of the players in the Australian squad itself and did not go to Bangladesh.
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Jake Weatherald scored twin centuries, a century in each innings of the match; in the first innings, he scored 152 off only 160 balls, and then 143 off 281 balls in the second innings to guide the Redbacks to an unlikely five-wicket victory, after Western Australia had scored 514 in the first innings.
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Jake Weatherald took his first-class batting average from 33 to 40 in this match alone.
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However, in October 2020, Jake Weatherald took time away from the game citing mental health issues.