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Full name Aaron Warren O'Brien
Born October 2, 1981, St Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales
Current age 26 years 339 days
Major teams Australia Under-19s,New South Wales
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
St
First-class
20
32
1
716
147
23.09
1507
47.51
1
3
9
0
List A
27
24
6
641
62*
35.61
891
71.94
0
4
8
0
Twenty20
10
9
2
105
38
15.00
89
117.97
0
0
6
1
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
20
1024
574
7
2/44
82.00
3.36
146.2
0
0
0
List A
27
727
595
12
3/55
3/55
49.58
4.91
60.5
0
0
0
Twenty20
10
10
195
258
11
2/7
2/7
23.45
7.93
17.7
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class debut
2001/02
Last First-class
New South Wales v Victoria at Sydney, Jan 16-19, 2007 scorecard
List A debut
2001/02
Last List A
Victoria v New South Wales at Melbourne, Dec 20, 2006 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
New South Wales v Queensland at Sydney, Jan 8, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Victoria v New South Wales at Melbourne, Jan 6, 2008 scorecard
Profile
After a promising 2005-06 that looked like his breakthrough year, Aaron O'Brien went back to being a fringe member of the New South Wales side last season. He played five of 11 Pura Cup games and five of ten one-dayers. He was unlucky to be dropped from the limited-overs team after opening the season 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 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 - and another 277 at 39.57 to finish in third place on the state's one-day list. His bowling returns have been modest - one Pura Cup wicket and two in the FR Cup last year - but he was dangerous and economical in the Twenty20 format, with six breakthroughs at 19. Cricinfo staff June 2007
