.jpg) Schutt bowling for Australia during the2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Megan Louise Schutt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1993-01-15)15 January 1993 (age 32) Adelaide,South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Shooter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armfast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 166) | 11 August 2013 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 18 July 2019 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 123) | 17 December 2012 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 24 March 2024 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 36) | 22 January 2013 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 5 October 2024 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2009/10–present | South Australia(squad no. 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015/16–present | Adelaide Strikers(squad no. 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Supernovas(squad no. 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | London Spirit(squad no. 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Royal Challengers Bangalore(squad no. 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Megan Louise Schutt (born 15 January 1993) is an Australiancricketer who has played for thenational team as afast-medium bowler since 2012. Domestically, she plays for theSouth Australian Scorpions,[1] for whom she debuted in 2009,[2] and, since 2015, theAdelaide Strikers. She was the first cricketer to take ahat-trick for Australia in aWomen's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match.[3]
Schutt was born inAdelaide,[1] into what she has praised as a "loving family", headed by her parents Brian and Sue. According to Schutt, "I'm 99 per cent my dad; I have my mum's eyes, but that's about it," and, "I thank [my dad] for all my sporting-ness." However, he denies having been any good at sport.[4]
Together with her older sister Natalie, with whom she shared a bedroom, and her younger brother Warren, Schutt was raised in a modest home inHackham West, an outer southern suburb of Adelaide. She attended Hackham West Primary School, thenWirreanda Secondary School, and although she loved school and achieved good grades, she also "wagged a bit".[4]
In Hackham West, children often played cricket in the suburban streets, and Schutt was amongst them. One day when she was 11 years old, she was asked to fill in for someone in aSeaford club match. During that game, she was bowled first ball, but took a wicket with her own first ball. She was also spotted by someone who invited her to join a new girls' team. After being spotted again playing for that team, she was recruited by theFlinders University Cricket Club.[4] Then, at age 13, she moved to Sturt, where her teammates includedShelley Nitschke.[4][5]
Schutt proceeded along the South Australian state pathway through the under-15, under-17 and under-19 teams.[4] Yet despite being a "fluky good" cricketer as a teenager, she took a long time to fall in love with the game. At 16, she tried boundary umpiring for anAustralian rules football league, and was called up to play football for a short time at junior level, but she soon returned to cricket. In 2018, she told Adelaide'sSunday Mail that until she was 19:[4]
"I took things for granted and I had to figure out how lucky I was to be playing a sport amongst really good people and a sport that is an incredible sport, it's so simple yet so complicated. It took me to appreciate everything around me to actually fall in love with the game ... and I'm glad I did."
In an article Schutt wrote forThe Guardian in 2021, she observed that as an unexpected by-product of the COVID-19 pandemic she had been able to consider certain issues with more clarity:[6]
"Some of this has been around equality in sport, a belated reflection on my childhood, of being the token girl who played sport at my school and the perception that was normal. Or of growing up believing women's cricket pathways were equal to their men's counterparts when they quite clearly were not."
A right-armfast-medium bowler, Schutt made her international debut againstNew Zealand,[1] a match in which she bowled expensively, conceding 33 runs from fiveovers.[7] She collected two wickets in her next match, against the same opposition,[8] and was rated byESPNcricinfo's review of women's cricket in 2012 as a player to watch in the following year.[9] She was selected as part of Australia's squad for the2013 Women's Cricket World Cup,[10] something that ESPNcricinfo's Jenny Roesler suggested was due to Australia's lack of bowlers.[9]
During the World Cup, Schutt appeared in all of Australia's seven matches, claiming 15 wickets at an economy of 4.13.[11] She took at least one wicket in each of the matches,[8] and her 15 were the most by any bowler in the tournament.[12]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 herswing bowling.[13] Schutt opened the bowling for Australia in theWorld Cup final against theWest Indies, which her side won by 114 runs; she claimed two wickets for the concession of 38 runs in the match.[14] 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.[15]
In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.[16]
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In March 2018, during the2017–18 India women's Tri-Nation Series, Schutt became the first bowler for Australia Women totake a hat-trick in WT20Is.[17] The following month, she was one of the fourteen players to be awarded a national contract for the 2018–19 season byCricket Australia.[18]In June 2018, Schutt was named as the new captain of theSouth Australian Scorpions after the previous captain,Tegan McPharlin, chose to step down.[19]
In October 2018, she was named in Australia's squad for the2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[20][21] Ahead of the tournament, she was named as one of the players to watch.[22]
In November 2018, she was named in theAdelaide Strikers' squad for the2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.[23][24] In April 2019,Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract ahead of the 2019–20 season.[25][26] In June 2019, Cricket Australia named her in Australia's team for theirtour to England to contest theWomen's Ashes.[27][28] In September 2019, in the third matchagainst the West Indies, Schutt became the first Australian bowler to take ahat-trick in WODIs,[29] and the first female bowler to take two hat-tricks in international cricket.[30] In January 2020, she was named in Australia's squad for the2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[31] She finished as the leading wicket taker with 13 wickets in the tournament which also included taking 4/18 in the final.[32]
In January 2022, Schutt was named in Australia's squad for theirseries against England to contest theWomen's Ashes.[33] Later the same month, she was named in Australia's team for the2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[34] On 3 February 2022, in the first WODI match of the Women's Ashes, Schutt took her 100th wicket in WODI cricket.[35]
In April 2022, she was bought by theLondon Spirit for the2022 season ofThe Hundred.[36] The following month, Schutt was named in Australia's team for thecricket tournament at the2022 Commonwealth Games inBirmingham, England.[37] In July 2022, in the2022 Ireland women's Tri-Nation Series, Schutt took her 100th wicket in WT20I cricket.[38]
She was named in the Australia squad for the2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup[39] and the2025 Women's Ashes series.[40][41]
Schutt'snickname is "Shooter".[4][42] She came out as lesbian, and married her long-term partner Jess Holyoake in 2019. An early supporter of same-sex marriage in Australia, Schutt stated that "saying partner is nice but when having to explain that it's a woman a lot of the time I think that often gets a reaction which isn't quite comfortable...now we're able to [just] say wife, flat out, and people know that's the deal."[43][44] In May 2021, Schutt announced that Holyoake was expecting their first child.[45]
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