| Freya Sargent | |
| Female: | true |
| Country: | Ireland |
| International: | true |
| Fullname: | Freya Alexandra Sargent |
| Birth Date: | 21 January 2006 |
| Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm off-spin |
| Role: | Bowler |
| Club1: | Typhoons |
| Year1: | 2020- |
| Odidebutdate: | 17 October |
| Odidebutyear: | 2023 |
| Odidebutagainst: | Scotland |
| Odicap: | 98 |
| Lastodidate: | 27 November |
| Lastodiyear: | 2024 |
| Lastodiagainst: | Bangladesh |
| T20idebutdate: | 14 August |
| T20idebutyear: | 2023 |
| T20idebutagainst: | Netherlands |
| T20icap: | 54 |
| Lastt20idate: | 15 Sepetember |
| Lastt20iyear: | 2024 |
| Lastt20iagainst: | England |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | WODI |
| Matches1: | 11 |
| Runs1: | 28 |
| Bat Avg1: | 9.33 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 16 |
| Deliveries1: | 510 |
| Wickets1: | 17 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 28.76 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 3/29 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 3/– |
| Column2: | WT20I |
| Matches2: | 9 |
| Runs2: | 9 |
| Bat Avg2: | 9.00 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/0 |
| Top Score2: | 9 |
| Deliveries2: | 197 |
| Wickets2: | 9 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 24.00 |
| Fivefor2: | 0 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 3/30 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 2/– |
| Date: | 27 November 2024 |
| Source: | https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/freya-sargent-1229016 Cricinfo |
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.
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]
Sargent was named in the Ireland squad for their T20I and ODI tour to Bangladesh in November 2024.[21] [22]