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Cameron Merchant
Personal information
Full name
Cameron James Merchant
Born (1984-01-04) 4 January 1984 (age 40)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Batting Left-handed
Bowling Right-arm off-break
Role Batsman
Domestic team information
Years Team
2007/08–2008/09 Northern Districts
2009/10–2010/11 Wellington
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 26 12 8
Runs scored 1,445 270 144
Batting average 30.10 22.50 20.57
100s/50s 2/8 0/1 0/1
Top score 108 94 57
Balls bowled 24
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 21/– 4/0 2/0
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 29 January 2019

Cameron James Merchant (born 4 January 1984) is an Australian cricketer living in Sydney.

Career

After a Second XI career in Australia, moved to New Zealand to play first class cricket for Northern Districts from 2007. A left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm off-break bowler, Merchant continually alternated between Northern Districts' First and Second XIs into the 2009 season. During his career, he has scored more than 1,000 runs in First and Second XI cricket, including two centuries and five half-centuries. He was formerly a professional at the Toronto Cricket Club in Canada.

Merchant is now the stand-in first grade captain of Manly Warringah District Cricket Club in Sydney Grade Cricket.

Personal life

In 2019, he appeared on the Australian version of Married at First Sight, where he 'married' 36-year-old Jules Robinson in an episode originally aired on 28 January 2019. They legally married in November 2019, and their first child, Oliver Chase Merchant, was born on 3 October 2020.

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