About Billy Stanlake
Billy James Stanlake (born 4 November 1994) is an Australian cricketer. He is a fast bowler who represented Australia in the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup and played One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket for the full national team. He plays domestic cricket for the Tasmania cricket team and the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League. Stanlake is the tallest person to ever represent Australia in international cricket, standing at 204 cm. == Early life == Stanlake was born in Hervey Bay, Queensland and spent the first six years of his life on the Fraser Coast. There, he and his brother played Australian rules football for the Hervey Bay Bombers, encouraged to do so by their father Warren Stanlake who played for the Footscray Football Club in the professional Victorian Football League. The family then relocated to the Gold Coast in 2001, where Billy began playing cricket for Southport-Labrador and attended The Southport School (TSS). He represented TSS's First XI cricket team in their back-to-back 2010-11 GPS Premiership years and was awarded the Westcott Family Trophy for First XI bowler of the year in both seasons. Stanlake made his first grade debut for the Gold Coast Dolphins at 16 years of age in October 2011. == Youth career == After switching to cricket, Stanlake was a very successful youth cricketer in both domestic and international competitions.
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