Queensland teenagers Chelsea Sonter, Ayaka Stafford and Lilli Hamilton have earned spots in the Australian Under-19 squad for the first time, selected for a tour of Sri Lanka later this month.<\/p>\n
Fresh from playing in the KFC T20 Max competition, the Western Suburbs trio were named today in the 15-player Australia Under 19 Women\u2019s squad to tour Sri Lanka later this month.<\/p>\n
Australia will take part in a six-match bilateral series, featuring five Twenty20\u2019s and a 50-over match.<\/p>\n
The squad features a host of fresh faces, with Tasmania’s Sara Kennedy the sole representative from Australia\u2019s Under 19 World Cup campaign earlier this year where they finished third.<\/p>\n
Cricket Australia\u2019s National Development Lead and former international, Kristen Beams will coach the side along with former England Women\u2019s Head Coach, Lisa Keightley and Cricket Tasmania Pathways coach, Harry Allanby.<\/p>\n
Leg-spinner Stafford, 15, was a member of the Queensland Under-16 and Under-19 squads last year. She has already played international cricket, representing her mother’s birthplace Japan in four T20 internationals.<\/p>\n
Wicket-keeper Sonter was a Queensland Under-19 representative along with Hamilton last season.<\/p>\n
Toowoomba off-spinner Hamilton, no relation to fellow Queenslander Lucy Hamilton, made her WNCL debut for the Queensland Fire last season and played for the Heat squad in the T20 Spring Challenge.<\/p>\n
Australia Under 19 squad:
Ira Aery (VIC\/Essendon Maribyrnong Park Ladies Cricket Club)
Eva Baird (VIC\/Prahan Cricket Club)
Ava Drury (NSW\/Northern District Cricket Club)
Samara Dulvin (VIC\/Ringwood Cricket Club)
Lucy Finn (NSW\/St George Sutherland)
Lilli Hamilton (QLD\/Western Suburbs District Cricket Club)
Shiloh Julien (NSW\/Parramatta Women\u2019s Grade Cricket Club)
Jasmine Kamboj (VIC\/Carlton Cricket Club)
Sara Kennedy (TAS\/ Kingborough District CC)
Charli McLennan (VIC\/Carlton Cricket Club)
Indira Panelli (SA\/Kensington District Cricket Club)
Emily Powell (NSW\/Sydney Cricket Club)
Chelsea Sonter (QLD\/Western Suburbs District Cricket Club)
Ayaka Stafford (QLD\/Western Suburbs District Cricket Club)
Aijay Willoughby (SA\/West Torrens District Cricket Club)<\/p>\n
Fixtures
20 September: First T20, Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium
21 September: Second T20, Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium
24 September: Third T20, Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium
26 September: Fourth T20, Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium
28 September: Fifth T20, Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium
30 September: 50-over match, Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland teenagers Chelsea Sonter, Ayaka Stafford and Lilli Hamilton have earned spots in the Australian Under-19 squad for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-126732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}