Beau Webster


Beau Webster is an Australian cricketer. He plays for Tasmania. A right-hand batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler, he made his first-class cricket debut in the Sheffield Shield for Tasmania against Queensland at Hobart in February 2014 after representing the Tasmania U-23 side. He made his List A debut for Tasmania in the 2016–17 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup on 3 October 2016. He made his Twenty20 debut for Hobart Hurricanes on 2 January 2017 in the 2016–17 Big Bash League season.

Domestic career

Webster became the captain of Cricket Australia XI for the 2017–18 JLT One-Day Cup. In the first match of the cup against South Australia he scored 121, his first List A century to help lead Cricket Australia XI to just the second win in the team's history. His 229-run partnership with Jake Carder was the fourth-highest second-wicket partnership in the history of Australia's domestic List A competition. He was named the player of the match for his efforts. He again top scored for Cricket Australia XI against Western Australia with 52, but after he was out the team suffered a major batting collapse and lost comprehensively by 9 wickets. He was Cricket Australia XI's top run scorer for the cup with 247 runs at an average of 41.16.