King was born in Clarinda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. She is of Anglo-Indian descent, her parents both having emigrated from Chennai (the capital of Tamil Nadu, India) to Melbourne.[6][7][8] King followed her brother's footsteps by pursuing an interest in cricket after trying out different sports such as tennis, softball and baseball. Tennis was her first sport of choice as she took up the tennis racquet at the age of five and competed in the Tennis Victoria Pennant which was the largest tennis inter-club representative competition in Australia.[9] She also served as a ball kid during the women's singles final of the 2011 Australian Open.[10] She also had a brief stint with her school softball team and also turned up for Monash University Baseball Club.[9]
King was handed her first rookie contract at the age of 16 in 2012 with VicSpirit in the Women's National Cricket League and three years later down the line, she bagged a surprise call-up to Melbourne Stars for the inaugural edition of the WBBL in 2015–2016 season. She leapfrogged into the senior Victoria squad in 2016.[9]
In April 2022, King was bought by the Trent Rockets for the 2022 season of The Hundred in England.[13] 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.[14][15][16][17]
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.[18]
International career
In April 2019, Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract with the National Performance Squad ahead of the 2019–20 season.[19][20]
She made her Women's Test match debut on 27 January 2022, for Australia against England in the one-off Women's Ashes Test.[27] She made her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut on 3 February 2022, also for Australia against England in the Women's Ashes.[28] Therefore, she earned her first cap in all three formats of international cricket in the space of fourteen days.[29] In April 2022, she received her first contract with Cricket Australia after her splendid performances with the ball throughout the cricket summer.[30]
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.[31][32] 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.[33]
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