Daniel James Worrall (born 10 July 1991) is an Australian–English

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er who plays for

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. He played for

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in the

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competition and for the

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in the

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. He was selected to play for Australia in 2016. He holds British citizenship and now lives in England. He will be classed as an international player in Australian competitions.

Career

Early career (2012–2015)

Worrall started his career playing for

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, but he moved to

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when he was offered a rookie contract with

for the 2012–13 season. He made his first-class debut against

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in 2012, but he struggled to maintain a spot in the state side consistently for the next few years.

Breakout and international career (2015–present)

Worrall's breakout came in the

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and BBL05. He recorded his first 5 wicket haul in first-class cricket when he took figures of 5/69 against

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in the first innings. He followed this up in the second innings with three more wickets as the Redbacks went on to win by 8 wickets. He made headlines at the end of BBL, 05 when, after starting the season outside of the

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' squad, he was brought into the team because other members of the team's pace attack were called up to play for Australia. In the final match of the regular season he took figures of 3/15 against the

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to help guarantee the Stars a home semi-final, a performance that

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described as "world-class". He followed this up in the semi-final, also against the Scorchers, by taking 3/25 in another win. His form continued to improve over the rest of the Sheffield Shield season, with career-best figures of 6/96 against Victoria in the Sheffield Shield final in the absence of fellow Redbacks fast bowler

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. He finished the season as the second-highest wicket taker of the Sheffield Shield, with 44 wickets at an average of 26.18, and as a result he was named by the

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as the most improved player for the 2015–16 season, having gone from a fringe member of the squad to one of the key members of the South Australian pace attack. Worrall's improvement warranted selection in the Australia A squad for a 2016 quadrangular series in northern

, during which he took figures of 4/26 against

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, his best figures in a

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match. After the series, despite having only played 12 List A matches in his career, he was added to the Australian national squad for their tour of

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. He made his ODI debut for Australia against Ireland on 27 September 2016. Worrall played for

in the

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. Worrall opened the bowling against

in the elimination final, bowling a wide on the first ball but recovering to then bowl

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for a golden duck in the same over. He finished the match with figures of 5/62 as Victoria fell short of South Australia's score and they advanced through to the final.

English County career

In February 2018,

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signed Worrall as their overseas player for the

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. In 2019, he re-signed with Gloucestershire, ahead of the 2019 County Championship in England. He returned to Gloucestershire for the

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. He made his first appearance in the third game against

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after missing the start of the season due to quarantine requirements. On 27 July 2021 Worrall signed for Surrey as a local player on a three-year contract which started from the 2022 summer. Worrall has a UK passport so will not count as an overseas player for

. Worrall was part of the

team that won the

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. In April 2022, he was bought by the

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for the 2022 season of The Hundred. In July 2023 Worrall was selected by the

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for the 2023 season of The Hundred as an injury replacement for fast bowler

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. On 21 August 2023 Worrall signed a new multi-year contract with

Based on his success in England, there were reports that Worrall would switch his allegiances to England.

Awards

Worrall was named as one of the 2025

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Bowling style

Worrall bowls a fast-medium pace and makes use of swing in his bowling. He has a distinctive angled run-up, one of the strangest in domestic Australian cricket. He developed this run-up in his childhood, where there was an inconveniently placed tree in his backyard which made a direct approach to the crease impossible with the long run-up required for pace bowling.

References

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