Megan Schutt was born on 15 January 1993 and is an Australian cricketer who has played for the national team as a fast-medium bowler since 2012.
18 Facts About Megan Schutt
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Megan Schutt was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick for Australia in a Women's Twenty20 International match.
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Together with her older sister Natalie, with whom she shared a bedroom, and her younger brother Warren, Megan Schutt was raised in a modest home in Hackham West, an outer southern suburb of Adelaide.
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Megan Schutt attended Hackham West Primary School, then Wirreanda Secondary School, and although she loved school and achieved good grades, she "wagged a bit".
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In Hackham West, children often played cricket in the suburban streets, and Megan Schutt was amongst them.
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Megan Schutt was spotted by someone who invited her to join a new girls' team.
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Megan Schutt proceeded along the South Australian state pathway through the under-15, under-17 and under-19 teams.
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Megan Schutt collected two wickets in her next match, against the same opposition, and was rated by ESPNcricinfo's review of women's cricket in 2012 as a player to watch in the following year.
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Megan Schutt was selected as part of Australia's squad for the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup, something that ESPNcricinfo's Jenny Roesler suggested was due to Australia's lack of bowlers.
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Megan Schutt took at least one wicket in each of the matches, and her 15 were the most by any bowler in the tournament.
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The Daily Telegraph described her rapid rise from playing club cricket to being the leading bowler in the World Cup as "meteoric", but Megan Schutt explained that the humidity in India favoured her swing bowling.
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Megan 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.
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In June 2018, Megan Schutt was named as the new captain of the South Australian Scorpions after the previous captain, Tegan McPharlin, chose to step down.
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In September 2019, in the third match against the West Indies, Megan Schutt became the first Australian bowler to take a hat-trick in WODIs, and the first female bowler to take two hat-tricks in international cricket.
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In January 2022, Megan Schutt was named in Australia's squad for their series against England to contest the Women's Ashes.
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On 3 February 2022, in the first WODI match of the Women's Ashes, Megan Schutt took her 100th wicket in WODI cricket.
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In July 2022, in the 2022 Ireland women's Tri-Nation Series, Megan Schutt took her 100th wicket in WT20I cricket.
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Megan Schutt came out as lesbian, and married her long-term partner Jess Holyoake in 2019.