Megan Schutt

Megan Schutt
Schutt bowling at the Women's Ashes Test, 2017
Personal information
Full name Megan Schutt
Born (1993-01-15) 15 January 1993
Adelaide, South Australia
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm medium-fast
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut 11 August 2013 v England
Last Test 11 August 2015 v England
ODI debut (cap 123) 17 December 2012 v New Zealand
Last ODI 20 July 2017 v India
ODI shirt no. 3
T20I debut (cap 36) 22 January 2013 v New Zealand
Last T20I 5 October 2018 v New Zealand
T20I shirt no. 3
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2009– South Australian Scorpions
2015- Adelaide Strikers
Career statistics
Competition WTests WODI WT20I LO
Matches 46 37 31
Runs scored 12 85 12 106
Batting average 12.00 6.53 2.40 6.23
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 11 18 6 27
Balls bowled 490 2,710 698 1,377
Wickets 9 66 42 32
Bowling average 19.44 24.22 17.11 32.15
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a n/a
Best bowling 4/26 4/18 4/22 4/22
Catches/stumpings 2/– 15/– 4/– 14/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 5 October 2018

Megan Schutt (born 15 January 1993) is an Australian cricketer who has played for the Australia national women's cricket team since 2012. Domestically, she plays for the South Australian Scorpions,[1] for whom she debuted in 2009.[2] A right-arm fast-medium bowler, her debut came against New Zealand,[1] a match in which she bowled expensively, conceding 33 runs from five overs.[3] She collected two wickets in her next match, against the same opposition,[4] and was rated by ESPNcricinfo's review of women's cricket in 2012 as a player to watch in the following year.[5] She was selected as part of Australia's squad for the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup,[6] something that ESPNcricinfo's Jenny Roesler suggested was due to Australia's lack of bowlers.[5]

During the World Cup, Schutt appeared in all of Australia's seven matches, claiming 15 wickets at an economy of 4.13.[7] She took at least one wicket in each of the matches,[4] and her 15 were the most by any bowler in the tournament.[8] The Daily Telegraph described her rapid rise from playing club cricket to being the leading bowler in the World Cup as "meteoric", but Schutt explained that the humidity in India favoured her swing bowling.[9] Schutt opened the bowling for Australia in the World Cup final against the West Indies, which her side won by 114 runs; she claimed two wickets for the concession of 38 runs in the match.[10] Her best bowling performance for Australia was the three wickets for 40 runs she claimed in the World Cup group match against New Zealand.[1]

In June 2015, she was named as one of Australia's touring party for the 2015 Women's Ashes in England.[11]

In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.[12]

In March 2018, during the 2017–18 India women's Tri-Nation Series, Schutt became the first bowler for Australia Women to take a hat-trick in WT20Is.[13] The following month, she was one of the fourteen players to be awarded a national contract for the 2018–19 season by Cricket Australia.[14] In June 2018, Schutt was named as the new captain of the South Australian Scorpions after the previous captain, Tegan McPharlin, chose to step down. [15]

In October 2018, she was named in Australia's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[16][17]

Personal life

Schutt is engaged to her girlfriend Jess Holyoake.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Player Profile: Megan Schutt". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  2. ↑ "Women's limited overs Matches played by Megan Schutt (31)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "3rd match: Australia Women v New Zealand Women at Sydney, Dec 17, 2012". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Statistics / Statsguru / ML Schutt / Women's One-Day Internationals". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  5. 1 2 Roesler, Jenny (5 December 2012). "For love, not money". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  6. ↑ "ICC Women's World Cup / Australia Women Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  7. ↑ "ICC Women's World Cup, 2012/13 – Australia Women / Records / Batting and bowling averages". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  8. ↑ "ICC Women's World Cup, 2012/13 / Records / Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  9. ↑ Homfray, Reece (19 February 2013). "Megan Schutt hits heights with Australia taking most World Cup wickets". The Daily Telegraph. News Limited. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  10. ↑ "Final: Australia Women v West Indies Women at Mumbai (BS), Feb 17, 2013". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  11. ↑ "Women's Ashes: Australia include three potential Test debututants". BBC. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  12. ↑ "Ellyse Perry declared ICC's Women's Cricketer of the Year". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  13. ↑ "Schutt claims rare hat-trick in Mumbai". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  14. ↑ "Molineux, Kimmince among new Australia contracts; Beams, Cheatle miss out". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  15. ↑ cite web url= https://www.saca.com.au/news/schutt-named-scorpions-captain/2018-06-26 title= Schutt named news Scorpions Captain accessdate= 7 August 2018 publisher= South Australian Cricket Association
  16. ↑ "Australia reveal World Twenty20 squad". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  17. ↑ "Jess Jonassen, Nicole Bolton in Australia's squad for ICC Women's World T20". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  18. ↑ "Megan Schutt reveals engagement with woman with touching Instagram post".

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