Freya Sargent
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| Full name | Freya Alexandra Sargent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 January 2006 Dublin, Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 98) | 17 October 2023 v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 21 January 2024 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 54) | 14 August 2023 v Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 30 January 2024 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2020- | Typhoons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Freya Alexandra Sargent (born 21 January 2006) is an Irish cricketer who plays for Ireland Women and Typhoons.[1][2]
She is an off-spinner and right-handed batter who primarily plays as a bowler for the national team.
In 2023 she was part of the Ireland U-19 Women's side that took part in the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup where she picked up 4 wickets.[3]
Sargent plays her club cricket for Clontarf.
Biography[edit]
Sargent received her first senior call up when she was named in the Typhoons squad for the 2020 season. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Irish women's domestic Super Series was limited to eight List A games only, with no T20 fixtures taking place.[4]
She made her List A debut on 3 August 2020 for Typhoons against Scorchers at Oak 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 the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup late that year.[7] In Ireland's opening game of the tournament against West 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 beating Indonesia,[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 from Cricket Ireland[11] and two months later she won Player of the Match for her 4/15 in a victory against Scorchers in a Super 20 Trophy match at Anglesea Road.[12]
A first call up to the Ireland senior team would come in August for a three match T20I series against the Netherlands. Head Coach Ed 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 her WT20I 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 bowled Babette de Leede.[16]
Sargent's WODI debut came against Scotland in October at Desert Springs in Spain. 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 during Ireland's tour of Zimbabwe in January 2024 where she took her ODI best figures of 3/29 in a 10 wicket win over Zimbabwe in the first ODI.[20]
References[edit]
- ^ "Typhoons". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Freya Sargent". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Ireland U19 tour averages". irishcricketarchives.org. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Squads named for Super50 series". irishcricketarchives.org. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Scorchers Women v Typhoons Women, Super Series 2020". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Scorchers Women v Typhoons Women, Arachas Super 20 Trophy 2021". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Hunter to lead Ireland at U19 World Cup". irishcricketarchives.org. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Day 2 Wrap: England and New Zealand show title pedigree with statement wins". U19WorldCup.com. 15 January 2023. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023.
- ^ "IRE-W vs WI-W Cricket Scorecard, , 6th Match, Group C at Potchefstroom, January 15, 2023". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "INA-W vs IRE-W Cricket Scorecard, , 21st Match, Group C at Potchefstroom, January 19, 2023". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Additional professional and new multi-year contracts for Ireland women cricketers". RTÉ. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Sargent bowls Typhoons to victory". www.cricketeurope.com. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Sargent earns Ireland call-up". irishcricketarchives.org. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Arlene Kelly shines as Ireland claim ten-wicket win over Netherlands in T20 series opener". Irish Independent. 14 August 2023. Archived from the original on 15 April 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "NL-W vs IRE-W Cricket Scorecard, , 1st T20I at Amstelveen, August 14, 2023". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "NL-W vs IRE-W Cricket Scorecard, , 2nd T20I at Amstelveen, August 16, 2023". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Ireland Women crash to heavy defeat to Scotland in first one-day international". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. 18 October 2023. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "IRE-W vs SCO-W Cricket Scorecard, , 2nd ODI at Almeria, October 19, 2023". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Forbes and Maguire called up to Ireland squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Mail, The Sunday (18 January 2024). "NEW: Ireland draw first blood against Lady Chevrons". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 15 April 2024.