Alana King

Early life King was born on 22 November 1995 in Clarinda, Victoria.

King was raised in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs and attended Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Bentleigh. She also had a brief stint with her school softball team and also turned up for Monash University Baseball Club.

She also had a successful 2021–22 Women's Big Bash League season by emerging as the joint fifth highest wicket-taker in the season with 16 scalps.

In April 2022, King was bought by the Trent Rockets for the 2022 season of The Hundred in England. On 13 August 2022, during a group stage match between Trent Rockets and Manchester Originals, she claimed a hat-trick against Manchester Originals and became the first woman to take a hat-trick in The Hundred.

In the same month, during a group stage match between Oval Invincibles and Trent Rockets at the 2022 Hundred edition, King achieved a unique feat by delivering 10 consecutive dot balls to become the first player to achieve the milestone in the history of The Hundred.

In December 2024, King was bought by the UP Warriorz for the 2025 season of WPL

International career In April 2019, Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract with the National Performance Squad ahead of the 2019–20 season.

In January 2022, King was named in Australia's squad for their series against England to contest the Women's Ashes. She was included in Ashes squad as replacement to injured Georgia Wareham and Sophie Molineux but she was picked up in the squad over Amanda-Jade Wellington as a surprise package with selectors opted to leave out Amanda-Jade Wellington in order to allow her play for Australia A team. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut on 20 January 2022, for Australia against England. Later the same month, she was named in Australia's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.

She made her Women's Test match debut on 27 January 2022, for Australia against England in the one-off Women's Ashes Test. She made her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut on 3 February 2022, also for Australia against England in the Women's Ashes. Therefore, she earned her first cap in all three formats of international cricket in the space of fourteen days. In April 2022, she received her first contract with Cricket Australia after her splendid performances with the ball throughout the cricket summer.

She was the second highest wicket-taker for Australia during the successful 2022 World Cup campaign for the Aussies as she picked up 12 wickets in the tournament at 24.50 in nine matches including a spell of 3 for 64 against England in the all-important final. She was also the fourth joint highest wicket-taker during the tournament in what is considered to be a career defining performance for her which would later make her first-choice player in the Australian team.

In May 2022, King was named in Australia's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.

In January 2023, King was named in the Australian team for the 2023 Women's T20 World cup.

She was named in the Australia squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup and the 2025 Women's Ashes series.

She was named in the Australia squad for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup. On 25 October 2025, during Australia's final group stage game against South Africa, she became the first woman to take 7 wickets in a single ODI world cup match, taking 7–18. She finished the tournament with 13 wickets, and was named in the ICC team of the tournament for her performances.