Cooper Connolly: biography, stats & profile
Cooper Connolly is an Australian batting allrounder. Style: left-handed batter, bowls left-arm orthodox. Born 22 August 2003 in --.
Batting career stats
| Format | M | Inns | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 66.67 | — | — | 1 | 0 |
| ODI | 6 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 3.33 | 24.40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T20I | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Bowling career stats
| Format | M | Inns | Wkts | Best | Avg | Econ | SR | 5W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0/9 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| ODI | 6 | 3 | 6 | 5/22 | 15.0 | 5 | 18.0 | 1 |
| T20I | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0/20 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
Cooper Connolly is an Australian batting allrounder who bats left-handed and bowls left-arm orthodox. Cooper Patrick Leonard Connolly was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 22 August 2003.
He plays domestic cricket for Western Australia and has turned out for Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League and Punjab Kings in the IPL. He is best known for a five-wicket ODI haul that made him the youngest Australian to achieve the feat, and for a maiden IPL century in 2026.
Early life and domestic career
Connolly captained Australia Under-19s at the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, where the side finished third. He joined Western Australia on a rookie contract before the 2021-22 domestic season, tagged as a left-handed prospect of exceptional promise.
He made his List A debut for Western Australia against Queensland on 24 September 2023 in the 2023-24 Marsh One-Day Cup. His first-class debut followed against Tasmania in the 2023-24 Sheffield Shield final on 21 March 2024, when he scored 90 in the first innings.
International career
Connolly made his T20I debut against Scotland on 7 September 2024 and his ODI debut against England on 29 September 2024. His only Test so far came against Sri Lanka on 10 February 2025, when he received cap number 471. It came in Galle, in just his fourth first-class match.
During the 2025 ODI series against South Africa, he took 5/22 at Mackay, making him the youngest Australian to claim an ODI five-wicket haul. In June 2026 he scored his first international hundred, 149 off 134 balls in an ODI against Bangladesh at Mirpur.
IPL
Connolly made his IPL debut for Punjab Kings in 2026. He scored a maiden IPL century in that season, 107 not out off 59 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Before that, Perth Scorchers signed him in August 2022 for the 2022-23 Big Bash League. The 2022-23 final brought him wider attention, as he steered the Scorchers to the title in just his second T20 innings. His breakout season came in 2023-24, when he played every Big Bash game for the side and scored 181 runs at the team’s third highest strike rate. His 2025 team is listed as San Francisco Unicorns.
Career stats at a glance
In ODIs, Connolly has played 6 matches, scoring 10 runs with a highest score of 7, and has taken 6 wickets at an average of 15.0, with best figures of 5/22 and one five-wicket haul.
In his single Test, he made 4 runs in his one innings and went wicketless, conceding 21 runs. In T20Is, he has played 2 matches and has bowled 2 innings for 45 runs.