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Full name | Megan Peta Banting | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Subiaco, Western Australia | 11 February 1996|||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
2013/14–2020/21 | Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
2015/16–2018/19 | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||
2020/21 | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,27 March 2021 |
Megan Peta Banting (born 11 February 1996) is an Australian cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batter. [1]
Banting was raised in the Perth suburb of Tuart Hill. She made a memorable debut for Western Australia as a 14-year old in the Under 15s,in a match in which the WA team defeated New South Wales. At the 2012 Under 18 national titles,she scored 86 runs for WA,including 26 in the fifth-place final against South Australia. [2]
After making her Fury debut in 2014–15, [2] Banting was selected in the Shooting Stars squad to tour to Dubai in March–April 2015. [3] She then became the Fury's number one keeper,ahead of veteran Jenny Wallace,for its 2015–16 WNCL campaign, [4] [5] and also kept wickets for the Scorchers in four matches during its inaugural WBBL|01 season (2015–16). [5]
In February 2016,Banting was named in a Shooting Stars 13-player development squad to face Sri Lanka and England in a limited-overs tri-series in Sri Lanka beginning the following month. [4] In August 2016,she was again selected for the Shooting Stars,this time to attend a talent camp at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane. [5] In the first of the matches at the camp,she starred as a batter,with a score of 96 runs. [6]
During the 2016–17 season,Banting was once again the Fury wicketkeeper,and kept wickets for the Scorchers in December 2016. [1] However,she was then replaced in the Scorchers team by Emily Smith, [7] who had been the Hobart Hurricanes keeper during the WBBL|01 season. [8]
In November 2018,she was named in the Perth Scorchers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. [9] [10]
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