{"id":163810,"date":"2025-09-23T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163810\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:49:09","slug":"ireland-womens-cricket-freya-sargent-steps-back-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163810\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Women&#8217;s cricket: Freya Sargent steps back from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland spin bowler Freya Sargent has announced she will take an indefinite break from international cricket for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old made her Ireland debut in 2023, racking up 32 appearances across white ball formats taking 33 wickets, and was nominated for the ICC Women&#8217;s Emerging Cricketer of the Year award in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After returning from injury earlier this year, Sargent&#8217;s most recent appearance came in Ireland&#8217;s T20 World Cup European qualifier in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Freya has been a valued member of the senior performance squad for the past three years, making a significant contribution both on and off the field. She has been an integral part of the team,&#8221; said Cricket Ireland&#8217;s director of high performance Graeme West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cricket Ireland will continue to support Freya during this time. The team management unit are all agreed this is the best option available to Freya. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Player wellbeing is paramount to us and takes precedence over everything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland spin bowler Freya Sargent has announced she will take an indefinite break from international cricket for personal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-163810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163810","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=163810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}