Early Career

Hazlewood grew up in the small country town of Bendemeer in New South Wales, 40 km north of Tamworth. He is the younger son of Trevor and Anne Hazlewood and has an older brother and sister. He often played fierce games of backyard cricket with his older brother and by the age of 12 was playing for Tamworth against grown men. Hazlewood was selected for New South Wales at the age of 17, making him the youngest paceman to represent the state. He made his first-class debut in November 2008 at the Sydney Cricket Ground against the New Zealand team. Hazlewood was also the youngest to make his One Day International debut for Australia on June 22, 2010.

A right-arm fast bowler, he has also played for the Australian Under-19 team and was the youngest member of the Australian squad for the 2008 Under-19 World Cup.

T20 Franchise Career

In February 2020, he was purchased by Chennai Super Kings as part of the 2020 IPL auction ahead of the 2020 Indian Premier League.

In the Indian Premier League 2022 mega auction, Josh Hazlewood was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹7.75 Crores.

International Career

On his One Day International debut, he bowled seven overs and took one wicket for 41 runs. He made his T20I debut against West Indies on 13 February 2013, scoring 1–36 in 4 overs. He picked career-best figures of 4–30 in a T20 against England.

He made his Test match debut for Australia against India on December 17, 2014 at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. In the first innings, he took five wickets and conceded 68 runs. He was part of Australia's squad for the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup and contributed to their triumph by taking four wickets in the quarter-final against Pakistan.

In November 2015, Hazlewood became the first player ever to win the Player of the Match award in a day-night Test match. In that match against New Zealand, he took the first wicket in the day-night Test from lbw Martin Guptill. He also took the first five-wicket haul in the history of day-night Test cricket at rates of 6 for 70, putting him on his way to reaching 50 career wickets in just his 12th Test, quicker as Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Mitchell Johnson.

In January 2017, Hazlewood recorded an unusual innings in the first ODI against New Zealand. He had a 26-minute 54-run partnership with Marcus Stoinis in the tenth wicket without hitting a single ball. He was dropped at non-striker's side as Australia fell just seven runs short of a win, and he became the first player to be dismissed for a diamond duck in a partnership of more than fifty runs. This was Hazlewood's first ODI dismissal and set the record for most ODI games without a dismissal (33), a record he had surpassed in December 2016 after his 28th ODI. Hazlewood took nine wickets in the Champions Trophy this year while also topping the ICC ODI bowlers rankings.

In April 2018, he was awarded a national contract by Cricket Australia for the 2018–19 season.

In July 2019, he was named in the Australian squad for the 2019 Ashes series in England. Hazlewood played in 4 of the 5 games in the series, taking 20 wickets at an average of 21.85.

On 16 July 2020, Hazlewood was named in a 26-man preliminary player squad to begin training for a possible tour to England following the COVID-19 pandemic. On 14 August 2020, Cricket Australia confirmed the matches would go ahead, with Hazelwood joining the touring party.

Hazlewood took his 200th Test wicket against India in the first Test of the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. As of December 19, 2020, he is Australia's 17th highest Test wicket-taker. In August 2021, Hazlewood was named in Australia's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. In 2021 after the T20 World Cup, he became the first bowler to finish in the top 10 in the ICC rankings in all three formats (Test, ODI, T20).

Hazlewood was selected in Australia's squad for the 2021–22 Ashes series, where he played the first Test match only in Brisbane, taking three wickets and two catches. He was named stand-in captain for the rested Pat Cummins in the second ODI against England in November 2022.

Successes

Named ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year for 2021.