Rhett John Gaven Lockyear (born 28 February 1983) is an Australian former professional cricket player, who played for the Sydney Thunder and the Tasmanian Tigers. He plays club cricket for Tasmania University Cricket Club.

Rhett Lockyear
Personal information
Full name
Rhett John Gaven Lockyear
Born (1983-02-28) 28 February 1983 (age 41)
Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2004/05–2011/12Tasmania
2011/12Hobart Hurricanes
2012/13Sydney Thunder
FC debut29 November 2004 Tasmania v Queensland
Last FC10 March 2010 Tasmania v Victoria
LA debut25 January 2006 Tasmania v New South Wales
Last LA22 December 2010 Tasmania v Western Australia
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 15 21 23
Runs scored 570 412 415
Batting average 19.00 24.23 18.04
100s/50s 0/3 1/1 0/3
Top score 85 111 64
Balls bowled 126 12 60
Wickets 3 0 2
Bowling average 20/66 15.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/1 2/20
Catches/stumpings 6/– 13/– 5/–
Source: Cricinfo, 5 July 2011

Rhett is a right-handed middle order batsman who has recurentely been performing consistently for club side University. He has had limited opportunities to establish himself in the Tiger's line-up.

On 18–20 November 2007, he assisted the Australian national side as a 12th man during the Hobart Test against Sri Lanka. In the first innings, he was involved in the run out of Farveez Maharoof and caught Michael Vandort off the bowling of Mitchell Johnson. In the second innings he was involved in the run out of Dilhara Fernando.

In October 2011 he was a member of the Australian squad at the 2011 Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes tournament.[1] In the opening game against Ireland, he captained the team and retired not out on 31 runs.[2]

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