| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Samuel Thomas Fanning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2000-10-20)20 October 2000 (age 24) Christchurch, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armoff break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022/23– | Western Australia(squad no. 28) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023/24– | Perth Scorchers(squad no. 20) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,23 February 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Samuel Thomas Fanning (born 20 October 2000) is a New Zealand-born Australiancricketer who plays first-class cricket for theWestern Australia cricket team. He made his first-class debut againstNew South Wales in the2022–23 Sheffield Shield. He has also represented theAustralian under-19 team in both Test andODI cricket.
Fanning represented Australia at the2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.[1] In the quarter-final againstIndia he top-scored for Australia with 75 runs, but received two demerit points from the ICC for elbowingAkash Singh during the match.[2][3] He also faced criticism along with some of his teammates for inappropriate comments made on social media during the tournament that appeared to mock non-native English speakers, with a Cricket Australia statement labelling the comments as "having no place in society".[4]
Fanning plays forPerth inWestern Australian Premier Cricket and had a breakout season in 2021–22, scoring more First Grade runs than any other batter,[5] and scoring over 1000 runs for the season across all competitions by mid-January.[6] His performance in grade cricket earned a call-up to his state side for the first match of the 2022–23 Sheffield Shield in which he scored a gritty 32 from 161 balls.[7]
Shortly after his first-class debut Fanning played twoT20 matches for Western Australia against a touringIndian side as part of the Indian warm-ups for the2022 T20 World Cup. In the first of these matches Fanning gained attention for scoring a half-century after coming in with his team 4 wickets down for just 12 runs.[8]
In March 2023, Fanning received a four-game ban from the WA Premier Cricket competition, with a further two matches suspended, after being caught on film digging his spikes into the protected area of the pitch during the WA Premier Cricket final in Perth between Perth CC and Bayswater-Morley CC.[9] Furthermore, he will be ineligible for state selection early next season.[10]
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