Megan Schutt

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] She was the first cricketer for Australia to take a hat-trick in a Women's Twenty20 International match.[3]

Megan Schutt
Schutt bowling for Australia during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Personal information
Full nameMegan Schutt
Born (1993-01-15) 15 January 1993
Adelaide, South Australia
NicknameShooter
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-fast
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 166)11 August 2013 v England
Last Test18 July 2019 v England
ODI debut (cap 123)17 December 2012 v New Zealand
Last ODI7 October 2020 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no.3
T20I debut (cap 36)22 January 2013 v New Zealand
Last T20I30 September 2020 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 4 59 67 31
Runs scored 12 97 25 106
Batting average 12.00 6.92 4.16 6.23
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 11 18 8* 27
Balls bowled 532 2,789 1356 1,377
Wickets 9 87 89 32
Bowling average 20.11 22.48 15.17 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 4/18 4/22
Catches/stumpings 2/– 17/– 7/– 14/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 7 October 2020

Career

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.[4] She collected two wickets in her next match, against the same opposition,[5] and was rated by ESPNcricinfo's review of women's cricket in 2012 as a player to watch in the following year.[6] She was selected as part of Australia's squad for the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup,[7] something that ESPNcricinfo's Jenny Roesler suggested was due to Australia's lack of bowlers.[6]

During the World Cup, Schutt appeared in all of Australia's seven matches, claiming 15 wickets at an economy of 4.13.[8] She took at least one wicket in each of the matches,[5] and her 15 were the most by any bowler in the tournament.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[12]

In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.[13]

Schutt bowling at the Women's Ashes Test, 2017

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.[14] The following month, she was one of the fourteen players to be awarded a national contract for the 2018–19 season by Cricket Australia.[15] 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.[16]

In October 2018, she was named in Australia's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[17][18] Ahead of the tournament, she was named as one of the players to watch.[19]

In November 2018, she was named in the Adelaide Strikers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.[20][21] In April 2019, Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract ahead of the 2019–20 season.[22][23] In June 2019, Cricket Australia named her in Australia's team for their tour to England to contest the Women's Ashes.[24][25] In September 2019, in the third match against the West Indies, Schutt became the first Australian bowler to take a hat-trick in WODIs,[26] and the first female bowler to take two hat-tricks in international cricket.[27] In January 2020, she was named in Australia's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[28] She finished as the leading wicket taker with 13 wickets in the tournament which also included taking 4/18 in the final.[29]

Personal life

Schutt attended Wirreanda High School in Adelaide's southern suburbs. Her nickname is "Shooter".[30]

Schutt came out as gay, 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."[31][32]

References
  1. "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. "Hat-trick heroes: First to take a T20I hat-trick from each team". Women's CricZone. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  4. "3rd match: Australia Women v New Zealand Women at Sydney, Dec 17, 2012". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  5. "Statistics / Statsguru / ML Schutt / Women's One-Day Internationals". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  6. Roesler, Jenny (5 December 2012). "For love, not money". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  7. "ICC Women's World Cup / Australia Women Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  8. "ICC Women's World Cup, 2012/13 – Australia Women / Records / Batting and bowling averages". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  9. "ICC Women's World Cup, 2012/13 / Records / Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  10. 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.
  11. "Final: Australia Women v West Indies Women at Mumbai (BS), Feb 17, 2013". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  12. "Women's Ashes: Australia include three potential Test debututants". BBC. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  13. "Ellyse Perry declared ICC's Women's Cricketer of the Year". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  14. "Schutt claims rare hat-trick in Mumbai". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  15. "Molineux, Kimmince among new Australia contracts; Beams, Cheatle miss out". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  16. 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
  17. "Australia reveal World Twenty20 squad". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  18. "Jess Jonassen, Nicole Bolton in Australia's squad for ICC Women's World T20". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  19. "Players to watch in ICC Women's World T20 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  20. "WBBL04: All you need to know guide". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  21. "The full squads for the WBBL". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  22. "Georgia Wareham handed first full Cricket Australia contract". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  23. "Georgia Wareham included in Australia's 2019-20 contracts list". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  24. "Molineux misses Ashes squad, Vlaeminck included". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  25. "Tayla Vlaeminck beats injury to make Australian women's Ashes squad". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  26. "Schutt takes hat-trick as Australia secure 3-0 series victory over West Indies". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  27. "Schutt makes history with maiden ODI hat-trick". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  28. "Sophie Molineux and Annabel Sutherland named in Australia's T20 World Cup squad". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  29. "Full Scorecard of Australian Women vs India Women, ICC Women's T20 World Cup, Final - Score Report". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  30. Staff writer (9 August 2013). "Introducing the players out to defend the Ashes as the Southern Stars get ready for England test". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  31. Carter, Brittany (17 October 2019). "'Don't take any crap': No holding back for Megan Schutt ahead of WBBL season". ABC News.
  32. Schutt, Megan (31 March 2019). "Best day of my life. My heart is so full. I am a lucky woman Mrs and Mrs Schutt". Twitter.

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