Australia is one of the few countries in the cricket world that constantly introduces new hot perspectives. This is one of the main reasons why the Australian Cricket U19 team is 4 times world champion. Sam Konstas.
This incredible 19-year-old opening strike began her professional professional career in November 2023 when she was playing for the new South West. A few months before that, Konstas was appointed to the Australian team U19 for a tour in England. Now he signed his first Australia cricket contract.
The Australian Cricket team does not play games: the first details of the Konstas contract
Follow his exceptional Christmas course test Beginning, Cricket Australia rewarded Sam Konstas with his first central contract. This means that this young opening striker will most certainly be part of the final of the world test and ash championship against England.
The star contract shows that Cricket Australia wants the best players available for the team. In recent months, Konstas has proven that it can be a powerful addition to the current national team.
As a new player, the Konstas 2025/26 contract will obtain a base of around $ 350,000 before match payments. This is a significant salary increase of around $ 225,000 compared to its NSW cricket agreement.
Following the contract and certain media reviews, the Konstas management team decided to impose a media ban. This is a temporary ban which, hopefully, will not last months and months.
Such an approach does not put its next cricket games in Australia in danger. It would have been a problem if it had a ban for bets or the game card games. Three players underwent such problems in 2016 because they received suspensions of up to 2 years.
In addition to Sam Konstas, Cricket Australia also included two additional players on the list of 2025/26 contracts. These are 31 -year -old versatile Beautiful Webster and 28 year old spinner Matt Kuhnemann. Both represent Tasmania in domestic cricket.
Konstas broke out on the cricket scene
The wider cricket public heard Sam Konstas for the first time during the Christmas course test Match against India. He destroyed the star of Indian cricket Jasprit Bumrah when he scored 60 on 65 balls alongside six four and two. Such a memorable beginning is what each young player dreams of.
Australian hard cricket fans know Konstas much earlier. They saw him for the first time at the 2023/24 Shield Sheffield where he played 4 games. His performances were decent because he scored 4 rounds and 155 points, with an average of 25.83.
However, its performance has improved considerably during the following season in the same competition. Konstas scored 6 rounds, 471 points and two centuries in 5 games. It comes with an average of 58.87.
His first century in first class cricket occurred on October 8, 2024 while he played against South Australia. In this match, he accumulated 152 points of 241 deliveries. During the second rounds of the same event, Konstas made his second century. He is the youngest cricket player to mark hundreds of consecutive at the Sheffield Shield since Ricky Ponting in 1993.
Sam Konstas made his professional debut at the T20 for Sydney Thunder and his debut in Big Bash League in December 2024. He managed to obtain the fastest 50 for Sydney Thunder in the history of Big Bash League. This player succeeded in 20 deliveries. Konstas ended the match with 56 points, two six and eight four.
Players under contract by Cricket Australia
Before signing his first Australia cricket contract, Sam Konstas remained outside the two test games in Sri Lanka. The national team selectors preferred Travis Head as a first -rate drummer to go against the Usman veteran Khawaja. It seemed reasonable because it is much more experienced than Konstas.
However, this should not demotivate the young opening striker because he has a lot of time to show his skills. He is definitely the next star of the Australian cricket and remains in the orientation of future competitions.
Australia will participate in the final of the world test championship in June this year. After that, the national cricket team will go against the Antilles in a multi-format series. Konstas and his team will also play the first of the 5 Ash test events in Perth in November 2025.
George Bailey, the president of selectors, looked evasive when a journalist questioned him the return of Konstas for the decisive WTC match. This question followed after the final return of the head in the average order for the clashes of Lord’s.
He said they saw Sam as a promising young player who will still improve at a first class level and an international environment.
Besides Sam Konstas, there are 22 other crickets under contract with Australia Cricket. These are Travis Head, Xavier Bartlett, Glenn Maxwell, Alex Carey, Matt Short, Matthew Kuhnemann, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Adam Zampa, Jhye Richardson, Nathan Ellis, Mitchell Marsh, Usman Khawaja, Cameron Green, Beau Webster, Scott Boland, Mitchll Starc Josh Hazlewo Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis and Steve Smith.
