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| Full name | Freya Alexandra Sargent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2006-01-21)21 January 2006 (age 19) Dublin, Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armoff-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 98) | 17 October 2023 v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 27 November 2024 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 54) | 14 August 2023 v Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 15 September 2024 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2020- | Typhoons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,27 November 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Freya Alexandra Sargent (born 21 January 2006) is an Irishcricketer who plays for theIreland women's cricket team andTyphoons.[1][2]
She is anoff-spinner and right-handedbatter who primarily plays as abowler for the national team.
In 2023 she was part of theIreland U-19 Women's side that took part in the2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup where she picked up 4 wickets.[3]
Sargent plays herclub cricket forClontarf.
Sargent received her first senior call up when she was named in the Typhoons squad for the2020 season. Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic the Irish women's domesticSuper Series was limited to eightList A games only, with noT20 fixtures taking place.[4]
She made her List A debut on 3 August 2020 for Typhoons againstScorchers atOak Hill aged just 14.[5]
Sargent would make her T20 debut at the same ground just over a year later on 8 August 2021, again against Scorchers.[6]
She would appear sporadically for Typhoons in 2022 before receiving a call-up for the2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup late that year.[7] In Ireland's opening game of the tournament againstWest Indies she would return figures of 2/9 and hit 15*(11) to take Ireland just seven runs short of what would have been a famous victory.[8][9]
After beatingIndonesia,[10] Ireland would qualify for the Super Sixes stage but not win any further games in the competition.
2023 would prove to be a breakthrough year for Sargent. In March she was announced as a recipient of a casual contract fromCricket Ireland[11] and two months later she won Player of the Match for her 4/15 in a victory against Scorchers in aSuper 20 Trophy match atAnglesea Road.[12]
A first call up to the Ireland senior team would come in August for a three match T20I series against theNetherlands. Head CoachEd Joyce noted that "Freya Sargent has impressed at youth international and Super Series level and has earned a call-up...she also performed well at the Under-19s World Cup at the start of the year, so I have no doubt she'll be well positioned for a step up in standard.”[13]
She made herWT20I debut in the first match of the series on 14 August, going wicketless from her four overs.[14][15] A maiden international wicket would come two days later in the second game as she bowledBabette de Leede.[16]
Sargent'sWODI debut came againstScotland in October atDesert Springs inSpain. She picked up two wickets,[17] followed by another two scalps in the second match.[18] However injury would force her to sit out the third ODI and the subsequent T20I series.[19]
Her return came duringIreland's tour of Zimbabwe in January 2024 where she took her ODI best figures of 3/29 in a 10 wicket win overZimbabwe in the first ODI.[20]
Sargent was named in the Ireland squad for their T20I and ODItour to Bangladesh in November 2024.[21][22]
She was among the four player shortlist for the ICC Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2024.[23][24]