the Sixers\u2019 24-run victory over cross-town rivals the Sydney Thunder<\/a> at Drummoyne Oval. <\/p>\nShe finished with career-best figures of 4-15 from four overs, becoming the youngest player to take a four-wicket haul in the WBBL, bettering the previous record set by Australian representative Annabel Sutherland in 2018.<\/p>\n
Bray is currently the WBBL\u2019s second-leading wicket-taker with six scalps at a staggering average of 5.33, having also dismissed England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s cool getting out those big dogs,\u201d Bray laughed after the match.<\/p>\n
Bray, who was born in 2009, narrowly avoided the social media ban that will be introduced next month, when Australians aged under 16 will be prohibited from creating accounts on popular sites such as Facebook and Instagram. The dual athlete was briefly worried she may have to remove or deactivate her Instagram account, emphasising how much younger she is than her Sixers teammates.<\/p>\n
Following her WBBL debut, the Sixers shared a series of photos of a baby-faced Bray posing alongside Australian superstars Alyssa Healy, Ash Gardner and Perry at the 2020 Women\u2019s T20 World Cup. Five years later, those childhood heroes are her teammates.<\/p>\n
Asked if she was still pinching herself at the prospect of playing alongside some of the sport\u2019s modern greats, Bray responded: \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever stop, to be honest. It\u2019s just crazy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you told me three years ago that I\u2019d be playing with Ellyse Perry, it\u2019s just an idea that I never thought of, and being able to do it is such a privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raised in Denham in the Upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Bray and her family relocated to Newcastle in 2023 to help the teenager pursue her twin sporting loves, at one stage sharing their house with a group of university students.<\/p>\n
Bray\u2019s mother Kim, who has given all six of her children Irish names despite there being no Irish heritage in the family, has clocked more than 290,000km in her five-year-old car having taxied Bray between Denham, Newcastle and Sydney for her various sporting commitments.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Year 10 school student Bray represented Australia at the Under-19 Women\u2019s T20 World Cup in Malaysia, where she was comfortably the youngest among her teammates. Yet despite the age difference, she finished the tournament as Australia\u2019s leading run-scorer with 119 runs at 29.75, also contributing seven wickets.<\/p>\n
Bray believes her bowling has come leaps and bounds over the past 12 months \u2014 not only has she added a yard of pace, but she\u2019s developed her outswinger while improving her bouncers and yorkers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to think my cricket has gone to another level over these past 12 months,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been working hard during the pre-season on certain aspects of my game … but I\u2019ve still got plenty of things to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sixers will next face the Melbourne Stars at North Sydney Oval on Thursday with the first ball scheduled for 7.10pm AEDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sixers all-rounder Caoimhe Bray has revealed the advice teammate Ellyse Perry gave her as she navigates the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-293525","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\/293525","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=293525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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