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JASON KREJZA

Cricketer - Tasmania & Australia

Right-Hand Off-Spinner, Right-Hand Batsman

At a Glance

Date of Birth: 14 January 1983
Place of Birth: Newtown, Sydney
Height: 184cm.   
Weight: 90kg

Test Matches: 2

Milestone Games

First-Class Debut: NSW v Queensland, Gabba, 15-18 October 2004
One-Day Debut: NSW v Tasmania, Newcastle, 24 October, 2004
T20 Debut: Tasmania v Western Australia, Perth, 31 December, 2007

Tasmanian First-Class Debut: Tasmania v South Australia, AdelaIde, 1-4 March, 2007
Tasmanian One-Day Debut: Tasmania v South Australia, Adelaide, 21 February 2007

Test Debut: Australia v India, Nagpur, 6-10 November 2009

Test Wickets: 13 @ 44.0        Test Runs: 71 @ 23.7

Snapshot  

Jason Krejza is a Tasmanian off-spinner and useful lower-order batsman who is hoping to play an important role in the spin bowling fortunes of Australian cricket in the post-Shane Warne/Stuart MacGill era.

Originally from Sydney, the son of a Polish mother and a professional football-playing Czechoslovakian father, Krejza made his first-class debut for NSW in 2004-05. But after 12 first-class matches and nine one-day matches for NSW, he moved to Tasmania in January 2007, midway through the 2006-07 season, in search of greater opportunities.

It was a move that has reaped significant dividends as he was chosen first for the Australia 'A' tour of India in August/September 2008, and then for the full Australian Test tour of India in September/October 2008 - after just 23 first-class games, 11 domestic one-day games and one domestic Twenty20 game. And finally, after watching the first three Tests of the Indian tour, he made a record-breaking debut in the fourth Test, taking eight wickets in the first innings and finishing with 12 for the match.

Krejza's national call-up came after the most unlikely of turning points - a conviction for drink-driving and speeding which saw his Tasmanian teammates ban him from alcohol for the entire 2007-08 season and exclude him from pre-season training. 

It is not a moment Krejza shies away from. "That was the pivotal moment in my career," he told the Sydney Morning Herald on 14 September 2008. "I had to prove to myself that I was committed enough. When someone asks you to go for a beer, it's a bit hard to say no sometimes. It was me being able to be committed enough to something to stick at it. When it is all up against you, you find out things about yourself. That experience really did show me what I wanted to do."


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