| Megan Banting | |
| Female: | true |
| Country: | Australia |
| Fullname: | Megan Peta Banting |
| Birth Date: | 11 February 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Subiaco, Western Australia |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| Club1: | Western Australia |
| Club2: | Perth Scorchers |
| Club3: | Perth Scorchers |
| Year3: | 2020/21 |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Column1: | WLA |
| Matches1: | 43 |
| Runs1: | 499 |
| Bat Avg1: | 16.09 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/2 |
| Top Score1: | 57 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 16/8 |
| Column2: | WT20 |
| Matches2: | 34 |
| Runs2: | 130 |
| Bat Avg2: | 7.22 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/0 |
| Top Score2: | 18 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 3/1 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1165/1165071/1165071.html CricketArchive |
| Date: | 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 WBBL01 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 WBBL01 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]