Education
Born in Shepparton in northern Victoria, Keath completed his schooling at Melbourne Grammar School.
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Born in Shepparton in northern Victoria, Keath completed his schooling at Melbourne Grammar School.
He formerly played professional cricket for Victoria in Australian domestic cricket. He was a talented junior in both football (as a key defender) and cricket (as a batting all-rounder), and drew the attention of professional recruiters from both sports. In 2009, after excelling at under-18s football for the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup, he was recruited by the newly established Gold Coast Suns football club, which at that time was recruiting a batch of 17-year-olds to compete in the Victorian Football League in 2010, before it entered the Australian Football League in 2011.
In April 2010, Keath chose to proceed with cricket, accepting his Cricket Victoria contract.
An all rounder who bowled medium pace, Keath made his first-class cricket debut against the touring England team in December 2010. Over the following five years, he failed to earn a regular spot in the Victorian team, playing a total of seven first-class matches and sixteen List A matches, averaging less than twenty with the bat in both formats, as well as five Twenty20 matches for the Melbourne Stars.
He played premier cricket for Melbourne during that time, scoring 2101 runs at 35.01 and taking 79 wickets at 19.62. At the end of the 2014-2015 season, Keath lost his Cricket Victoria contract.
He spent the 2015 season playing in England in the Birmingham Premier League, and upon his return to Australia signed for South Australian Grade Cricket club Prospect.
On December 8, 2015, Keath was signed by the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League. Despite being drafted to the Gold Coast Suns in 2009, Keath was eligible to be drafted as a Category B rookie from 2013 as he had not played for an Australian rules football club at any level for three years. His shift to South Australian grade cricket attracted the attention of football recruiters, and in October 2015 he was signed by the Adelaide Football Club as a Category B rookie.
Despite being on the football club"s list, cricket remains Keath"s primary focus through the 2015-2016 season.
Adelaide"s recruitment of him is in the hope that he will switch to football at the end of 2015-2016.