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Wade Townsend
Australia
Player profile
Full name Wade James Townsend
Born January 29, 1986, Herston, Brisbane, Queensland
Current age 22 years 294 days
Major teams Queensland Academy of Sport, Queensland Under-17s
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Relations Grandfather - LH Townsend
Wade Townsend, a former state under-17 and under-19 batsman, has kept the rookie contract he received for 2007-08. Last summer he performed strongly in the Cricket Australia Cup, winning a nomination for the Academy batting programme, and spent the off-season scoring 10 hundreds in 18 games for Edwinstowe in Nottinghamshire. A left-hander from the Norths club, Townsend's grandfather Leslie umpired the fifth Test of the 1958-59 Ashes series. When he is not playing cricket he works as a butcher and fish filleter.
Cricinfo staff August 2008
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