Justin Avendano

{{Short description|Australian cricketer (born 1993)}}

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm off break

| role = Batsman

| club1 = Sydney Sixers

| year1 = 2018/19–2020/21

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| club2 = Melbourne Stars

| year2 = 2021/22

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| matches1 = 19

| runs1 = 251

| bat avg1 = 14.76

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| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/1125715.html Cricinfo

| date = 28 January

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Justin Avendano (born 11 August 1993) is an Australian cricketer who has represented the Sydney Sixers and the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League.{{cite web|url=https://www.bigbash.com.au/news/two-more-signings-for-sydney-sixers-dan-fallins-justin-avendano-greg-shipperd-lloyd-pope/2018-11-09|title=Two more signings for Sixers|website=bigbash.com.au|access-date=20 December 2018|archive-date=5 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405072740/https://www.bigbash.com.au/news/two-more-signings-for-sydney-sixers-dan-fallins-justin-avendano-greg-shipperd-lloyd-pope/2018-11-09|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/domestic_big_bash/big_bash_2018-19_squads_who%27s_playing_where_this_season.html|title=Big Bash 2018–19 Squads: Teams, team news|website=www.thecricketer.com|access-date=20 December 2018|archive-date=21 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221041307/https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/domestic_big_bash/big_bash_2018-19_squads_who%27s_playing_where_this_season.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sportingnews.com/au/cricket/news/big-bash-league-08-team-lists-every-club-updates-stars-renegades-sixers-thunder-scorchers-hurricanes-heat-strikers/thbheiqc8ahx1xrb8k341jst1|title=Big Bash League 2018/19: Player movements for each club - Sporting News|website=www.sportingnews.com|date=18 December 2018 }}

Avendano plays club cricket for North Sydney and for the Cricket NSW High Performance Transition Academy squad. In 2012 featured on the FOX Sports reality show Cricket Superstar.{{cite web|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2011/12/cricket-superstar-reveals-top-15.html|title=Cricket Superstar reveals top 15|date=8 December 2011|website=TV Tonight}} Avendano is a big hitting batsman and in a Sydney Sixers Academy match in November 2018 against Auckland at the Hurtsville Oval, his innings of 122 from 63 balls included hitting the maximum 6 sixes in one single 6-ball over. Avendano also hit a century opening the batting in a development game for the Sixers Academy against the Lahore Qalanders at the Blacktown International Sports Park in October 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.sydneysixers.com.au/news/sydney-sixers-sign-exciting-young-duo-dan-fallins-and-justin-avendano-for-big-bash-bbl/2018-11-09|title=Sixers sign exciting young duo for BBLI08|website=Sydney Sixers}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketnsw.com.au/news/toyota-futures-league-act-nsw-country-justin-avendano-south-australia-karen-rolton-oval/2018-11-19|title=Avendano falls five short of century|website=Cricket NSW}}{{cite web|url=https://aucklandcricket.co.nz/rep-teams/auckland-a-split-victories-on-first-day-of-quin-series/|title=Auckland A split victories on first day of Quin Series|date=5 November 2018|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sydneysixers.com.au/news/avedano-stars-in-sixers-academy-win-over-lahore-qalandars/2017-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405073738/https://www.sydneysixers.com.au/news/avedano-stars-in-sixers-academy-win-over-lahore-qalandars/2017-10-27 |archive-date=5 April 2019|title=Sixers Academy notches win over Lahore Qalandars|website=Sydney Sixers}}

He made his Twenty20 debut for Sydney Sixers in the 2018–19 Big Bash League season on 1 January 2019.{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/1152525.html |title=15th Match, Big Bash League at Carrara, Jan 1 2019 |publisher=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=1 January 2019}}

In January 2022, Avendano was called up into the Melbourne Stars squad for the 2021–22 Big Bash.{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/bbl-2021-22-melbourne-stars-vs-perth-scorchers-clash-to-go-ahead-despite-more-covid-19-cases-1295044 |author=Malcolm, Alex |title=Stars-Scorchers clash to go ahead despite more Covid-19 cases |publisher=ESPNCricInfo |date=2 January 2022 |access-date=2 January 2022}}