Blake Nikitaras | |
Birth Date: | 29 April 2000 |
Birth Place: | Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia[1] |
Batting: | Left-handed |
Bowling: | Left-arm medium |
Role: | Batter |
Family: | Steve Nikitaras (father) |
Year1: | 2021/22–present |
Clubnumber1: | 45 |
Year2: | 2022/23–present |
Clubnumber2: | 47 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Columns: | 2 |
Column1: | FC |
Matches1: | 11 |
Runs1: | 488 |
Bat Avg1: | 23.23 |
100S/50S1: | 0/2 |
Top Score1: | 56 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 4/– |
Column2: | T20 |
Matches2: | 2 |
Runs2: | 8 |
Bat Avg2: | 8.00 |
100S/50S2: | 0/0 |
Top Score2: | 8 |
Catches/Stumpings2: | 1/– |
Source: | https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/blake-nikitaras-1169066 Cricinfo |
Date: | 21 February |
Year: | 2024 |
Blake Nikitaras (born 29 April 2000) is an Australian cricketer who plays for New South Wales and Sydney Thunder. He is a left-handed batsman. He is the son of former international cricketer Steve Nikitaras.[2]
Nikitaras is from Oak Flats in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. He plays for St George Cricket Club in NSW Premier Cricket.[3]
Ahead of the 2020-21 season Nikitaras injured his anterior cruciate ligament playing a friendly game of basketball and missed the majority of the season instead rehabbing for months at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.[4]
In March 2022 Nikitaras made his first-class debut for New South Wales scoring 44 and 56 against the South Australia cricket team in the Sheffield Shield.[5] This earned him a rookie deal with NSW for the 2022-23 season.[6] [7]
In December 2022 Nikitaras was given a contract for the Big Bash League with Sydney Thunder.[8] [9]