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{{short description|Australian cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Theo Doropoulos
| image = Theo Doropoulos.jpg
| country = Australia
| fullname = Theo Paul Doropoulos
| nickname = Zoolander
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|04|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Subiaco, Western Australia]]
| heightcm = 182
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium
| role = [[Batsman]]
| club1 = [[Western Warriors|Western Australia]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|2006/07–2009/10}}
| club2 = [[South Australian cricket team|South Australia]]
| year2 = 2011/12
| club3 = [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington]]
| year3 = 2012/13
| columns = 3
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches1 = 10
| runs1 = 300
| bat avg1 = 20.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/2
| top score1 = 65
| deliveries1 = 348
| wickets1 = 5
| bowl avg1 = 51.00
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 2/16
| catches/stumpings1 = 6/–
| column2 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| matches2 = 23
| runs2 = 581
| bat avg2 = 29.05
| 100s/50s2 = 0/5
| top score2 = 92
| deliveries2 = 204
| wickets2 = 3
| bowl avg2 = 65.66
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 1/13
| catches/stumpings2 = 8/–
| column3 = [[Twenty20|T20]]
| matches3 = 20
| runs3 = 224
| bat avg3 = 18.86
| 100s/50s3 = 0/0
| top score3 = 43
| deliveries3 = 66
| wickets3 = 5
| bowl avg3 = 22.00
| fivefor3 = 0
| tenfor3 = 0
| best bowling3 = 3/24
| catches/stumpings3 = 13/–
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5104.html CricInfo
| date = 15 December
| year = 2018
}}
'''Theo Paul Doropoulos''' (born 25 April 1985) is an Australian journalist and former Australian [[cricketer]] of Greek origin. He played for [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]], [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]] and [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington]].
Doropoulos is currently weekend sports presenter on ''[[Seven News]]'' in Melbourne.
==Career==
Doropoulos represented Australia at under-19 level, [[Western Australia]] at both under-17 and under-19 and played for South Shields Cricket Club in the English North East Premier League.<ref>Marshall, Jeff; [http://www.shieldsgazette.com/localcricket/Newcastle-win-has-Shields-in.2943519.jp Newcastle win has Shields in a spin]; The Shields Gazette; 2007-06-11</ref> He played as a right-handed batsman and bowled right-arm fast-medium. He made his [[Twenty20]] debut for Western Australia in January 2007 and his [[first-class cricket]] and [[List A cricket]] debuts in November 2007.
Doropoulos previously held the record for the highest score in an under-19 One Day International, scoring 179 [[not out]] against England in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Under_19_ODI/Overall/Batting/Highest_Player_Scores.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2017-03-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/336836.html |title=Records | Under-19s Youth One-Day Internationals | Batting records | Most runs in an innings | ESPNcricinfo.com |publisher=Stats.cricinfo.com |date= |accessdate=2022-08-17}}</ref>
Doropoulos’s most noticeable moment came during a test match between [[Australia national cricket team|Australia]] and the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] at the [[WACA Ground]] in 2009 when after [[Nathan Hauritz]] went down with during the West Indies second innings with Doropoulos becoming a substitute fielder in his place. Doropoulos upon his introduction dropped a catch from [[Sulieman Benn]] off the bowling of [[Clint McKay]] but soon after took a redeeming catch, this time off his WA teammate [[Mitchell Johnson]]’s bowling to remove Benn. Doropoulos was mistaken in several times by commentators, most notably [[Michael Slater]], who said it was [[Marcus Stoinis]] who took the catch.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-04 |title=The day I accidentally played for cricket for Australia |url=https://www.6pr.com.au/the-day-i-accidentally-played-for-cricket-for-australia/ |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=6PR |language=en}}</ref>
In June 2011, after being dropped from Western Australia's squad, Doropoulos signed with South Australia.<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/521300.html South Australia sign Doropoulos] – ESPNCricinfo. Published June 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2011.</ref> He also played 3 matches for the [[Adelaide Strikers|Adelaide Stikers]] in the [[Big Bash League]].
[[File:Theo Doropoulos 2010.jpg|left|thumb| Doropoulos fielding for WA against Victoria in the [[2009–10 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash]].]]
==Media career==
After not being offered a contract by South Australia in 2012, Doropoulos started working in the media working as sports reporter for the [[Seven Network]] in Adelaide on ''[[Seven News Adelaide]]'' where he focused mainly the [[Australian Football League|AFL football]] while also reporting on his former sport cricket.<ref>{{Cite web |title=South Australia cull six from contract list |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/australia-news-south-australia-cull-six-including-daniel-harris-and-cameron-borgas-from-contracts-571194 |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=ESPNcricinfo |language=en}}</ref>
In 2024, he moved to Melbourne where he worked in a similar role on ''[[Seven News Melbourne]]'', he has also appeared on the station cricket coverage as a boundary commentator a similar role he done on [[Triple M]]’s AFL coverage.
In February 2025, Doropoulos replaced Abbey Gelmi as weekend sports presenter on ''[[Seven News Melbourne]].''
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=5104}}
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[[Category:1985 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Australian cricketers]]
[[Category:Wellington cricketers]]
[[Category:Western Australia cricketers]]
[[Category:People educated at Hale School]]
[[Category:Australian people of Greek descent]]
[[Category:Sportspeople of Greek descent]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Perth, Western Australia]]
[[Category:Adelaide Strikers cricketers]]
[[Category:South Australia cricketers]]
[[Category:21st-century Australian sportsmen]]
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