Picture by Jason McCawley/Getty Images. AJ Tye celebrates winning the State One-Day Cup with Western Australia in February 2024.
In AJ – Andrew James – Tye, Yorkshire have signed a seamer who is right up there amongst the very best white-ball bowlers Australia has ever produced.
Tye, aged 39, has penned a two-year T20 only contract at Headingley, and arrives as a domestic-qualified player courtesy of English family links.
He is closing in on 350 career T20 wickets and is second on the list of all-time Big Bash leading wicket-takers with 162 from 19 appearances.
Tye was capped 39 times by Australia, 32 of which have come in 20-over cricket, between 2016 and 2021.
He has experience all over the world having played in the IPL, the Pakistan Super League, the Vitality Blast for Gloucestershire, Durham and Northamptonshire, Major League Cricket in America, and the Caribbean Premier League. There are others as well.
He is best known as a skilful seamer with all the variations who has won title after title in the colours of Perth Scorchers and Western Australia.
Picture by Kelly Defina/Getty Images. AJ Tye celebrates taking a wicket in the colours of the Perth Scorchers.
Tye is a former State and Big Bash team-mate of fellow new signing Sam Whiteman, who joined Yorkshire only last week.
A successful season with the White Rose in 2025 could see Tye break the 100-wicket barrier in the Vitality Blast. He currently has 86 to his name from 62 appearances for the aforementioned trio of counties.
A late bloomer, Tye only debuted in professional cricket at 26 and was 29 when he made his international debut.
He has three five-wicket hauls to his name in T20s, including a best of 5-17.
One of his five-fors came in the Blast for Durham against Leicestershire at the Riverside in June 2022.
Right-armer Tye has also taken a trio of hat-tricks in T20 cricket, two for Perth Scorchers and the other for Gujarat Lions.
Picture by Steve Bell/Getty Images. AJ Tye receives his Melbourne Renegades cap during the early stages of the ongoing Big Bash campaign.
The latter, against Rising Pune Supergiant, actually came on his IPL debut in April 2017. He took that aforementioned career best 5-17 in that match, including the wicket of Ben Stokes.
He is spending the ongoing Big Bash season playing alongside Will Sutherland at the Melbourne Renegades.
