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Alexander Robin Keath (born 20 January 1992) is an Australian rules footballer and cricketer who currently plays grade cricket in South Australia and is on the rookie list of the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League. He formerly played professional cricket for Victoria in Australian domestic cricket. Born in Shepparton in northern Victoria, Keath completed his schooling at Melbourne Grammar School. He was a talented junior in both football (as a key defender) and cricket (as a batting all-rounder), and drew the attention of professional recruiters from both sports. In 2009, after excelling at under-18s football for the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup, he was recruited by the newly estbalished Gold Coast Suns football club, which at that time was recruiting a batch of 17-year-olds to compete in the Victorian Football League in 2010, before it entered the Australian Football League in 2011. At the same time, he had excelled as a junior cricketer, and represented Australia in the 2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and was offered a three-year Cricket Victoria contract. In April 2010, Keath chose to proceed with cricket, accepting his Cricket Victoria contract. An all rounder who bowled medium pace, Keath made his first-class cricket debut against the touring England team in December 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/259/259154.html )〕 Over the following five years, he failed to earn a regular spot in the Victorian team, playing a total of seven first-class matches and sixteen List A matches, averaging less than twenty with the bat in both formats, as well as five Twenty20 matches for the Melbourne Stars.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alex Keath )〕 He played premier cricket for Melbourne during that time, scoring 2101 runs at 35.01 and taking 79 wickets at 19.62.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VCA 1st XI Career records 1889-90 to 2014-15, I-M )〕 At the end of the 2014-15 season, Keath lost his Cricket Victoria contract. He spent the 2015 season playing in England in the Birmingham Premier League, and upon his return to Australia signed for South Australian Grade Cricket club Prospect. Keath's shift to South Australian grade cricket attracted the attention of football recruiters, and in October 2015 he was signed by the Adelaide Football Club as a Category B rookie. Despite being on the football club's list, cricket remains Keath's primary focus through the 2015-16 season; Adelaide's recruitment of him is in the hope that he will switch to football at the end of 2015-16. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Keath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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