George Bailey

Who is George Bailey?

George John Bailey is an Australian cricketer, who is the current captain of the Australian T20 International teams.

He represents the Tasmanian cricket team in Sheffield Shield and Ryobi One-Day Cup matches, and also plays Twenty20 cricket for the Kings XI Punjab, previously used to play for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League and the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League.He also led Kings XI Punjabto the final of IPL 2014. Bailey was announced as Twenty20 captain of the Australian national cricket team in 2012, succeeding Cameron White, in a series that ended 1–1. He became the second ever Australian to captain an international game, without having played an international game before, after Dave Gregory in the first ever Test match. On 1 May 2013, Bailey was announced the vice-captain of the Australian ODI team for the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.

He captained the Australian team in India in ODI in the absence of Michael Clarke.

In November 2013 was named in the Australian team for the 2013–14 Ashes series against England and played all 5 matches of the series. He was subsequently dropped from the Test team.