![]() Leeson batting for the ACT in September 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Carly May Leeson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia | 9 November 1998|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016/17–2018/19 | Sydney Sixers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017/18–2018/19 | New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019/20–present | Australian Capital Territory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019/20–2022/23 | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024/25–present | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,10 February 2025 |
Carly May Leeson (born 9 November 1998) is an Australian cricketer who plays for the ACT Meteors in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL). An all-rounder,she bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. [1] [2] [3] She has previously played for Sydney Sixers,New South Wales and Melbourne Renegades. [4]
Leeson was born on 9 November 1998 in Grafton,New South Wales. [4] She represented New South Wales at under-15 and under-18 level and was a member of Australia's second-string Shooting Stars squad when they toured Sri Lanka in 2015. [5]
In February 2018,Leeson became the first woman to play in a men's grade cricket match for Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. [6]
Leeson joined the Sydney Sixers ahead of the 2016–17 WBBL season. She played one match,against the Melbourne Renegades,and took two wickets for 11 runs from her two overs. [7] [8]
Leeson joined the Melbourne Renegades for the 2019–20 season. [9] Her 2020–21 season was her most successful WBBL as she took 11 wickets and made her T20 high score of 31*. [10]
In the WNCL,Leeson joined the New South Wales Breakers ahead of the 2017–18 season,but did not play a match before joining the ACT Meteors in 2019. [11]
On 23 January 2020,Leeson made her maiden one-day fifty,scoring 56 off 63 balls in a seven-wicket loss to the Breakers. [12]
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