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Full name Jason John Krejza
Born January 14, 1983, Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales
Current age 25 years 271 days
Major teams Leicestershire,New South Wales,Tasmania
Nickname Krazy
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Height
1.84 m
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
24
37
8
672
65
23.17
1520
44.21
0
4
17
0
List A
11
10
4
130
52*
21.66
160
81.25
0
1
6
0
Twenty20
1
1
1
12
12*
-
9
133.33
0
0
0
1
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
24
3363
2154
43
4/91
50.09
3.84
78.2
1
0
0
List A
11
483
442
14
3/41
3/41
31.57
5.49
34.5
0
0
0
Twenty20
1
1
12
24
0
-
-
-
12.00
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class debut
2004/05
Last First-class
Indian Board President's XI v Australians at Hyderabad (Decc), Oct 2-5, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2004/05
Last List A
Victoria v Tasmania at Melbourne, Jan 18, 2008 scorecard
Only Twenty20
Western Australia v Tasmania at Perth, Dec 31, 2007 scorecard
Profile
A 2007-08 season that began with ignominy ultimately led to joy for Jason Krejza, who in September was called into the Test squad for Australia's tour of India. A year earlier, Krejza was caught drink-driving and speeding, and lost his licence for seven months. Tasmania imposed their own punishment on him - he was suspended from their pre-season training and banned from alcohol for the whole summer. He rewarded the state with a solid, if not spectacular, Pura Cup season that brought him 18 wickets at 47.11 from seven games. That was enough for an Australia A call-up and then the higher honour as the national selectors scoured the country for the next Test spinner, and it also justified Krejza's decision to head south during 2006-07. He had squeezed out of a tight queue of New South Wales slow bowlers and transferred to Tasmania, where the line was much shorter. Stuck behind Stuart MacGill with the Blues' new imports, Nathan Hauritz and Beau Casson, Krejza had three productive one-day outings before his mid-season departure but his lack of first-class action was the sealer. In Tasmania it was the other way around; Xavier Doherty was the established one-day spinner but Krejza was given Pura Cup opportunities.
An offspinner who is willing to flight the ball and can extract decent turn, Krejza's debut season at New South Wales raised eyebrows as he picked up Michael Bevan, a more than handy player of spin who spent years at the SCG, three times. The summer ended with nine Pura Cup matches and 12 wickets. The following campaign was less productive as Steve O'Keefe and Aaron O'Brien were also employed, before Hauritz and Casson swelled the stocks further. Krejza does not have a first-class five-wicket haul to his name but his resume does include solid batting - he has four first-class half-centuries. Krejza spends his time away from the game singing and playing guitar, and he has an interesting family history; his father is a footballer from Czechoslovakia and his mother is from Poland.
Cricinfo staff September 2008
