Megan Schutt

Megan Louise Schutt (born 15 January 1993) is an Australian cricketer who has played for the national team as a fast-medium bowler since 2012. Domestically, she plays for the South Australian Scorpions, and, since 2015, the Adelaide Strikers. She was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick for Australia in a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match.

Early life and education Schutt was born in Adelaide,

Together with her older sister and her younger brother Warren, Schutt was raised in a modest home in an outer southern suburb of Adelaide. She attended Wirreanda Secondary School, and although she loved school and achieved good grades, she also "wagged a bit".

Schutt proceeded along the South Australian state pathway through the under-15, under-17 and under-19 teams.

Career A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Schutt made her international debut against New Zealand, a match in which she bowled expensively, conceding 33 runs from five overs. She collected two wickets in her next match, against the same opposition, and was rated by ESPNcricinfo's review of women's cricket in 2012 as a player to watch in the following year. She was selected as part of Australia's squad for the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup, something that ESPNcricinfo's Jenny Roesler suggested was due to Australia's lack of bowlers. She took at least one wicket in each of the matches, The Daily Telegraph described her rapid rise from playing club cricket to being the leading bowler in the World Cup as "meteoric", but Schutt explained that the humidity in India favoured her swing bowling. Schutt opened the bowling for Australia in the World Cup final against the West Indies, which her team won by 114 runs; she claimed two wickets for the concession of 38 runs in the match. Her best bowling performance for Australia was the three wickets for 40 runs she claimed in the World Cup group match against New Zealand.

In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.

In March 2018, during the 2017–18 India women's Tri-Nation Series, Schutt became the first bowler for Australia Women to take a hat-trick in WT20Is. The following month, she was one of the fourteen players to be awarded a national contract for the 2018–19 season by Cricket Australia. In June 2018, Schutt was named as the new captain of the South Australian Scorpions after the previous captain, Tegan McPharlin, chose to step down.

In October 2018, she was named in Australia's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. Ahead of the tournament, she was named as one of the players to watch.

In November 2018, she was named in the Adelaide Strikers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. In April 2019, Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract ahead of the 2019–20 season. In June 2019, Cricket Australia named her in Australia's team for their tour to England to contest the Women's Ashes. In September 2019, in the third match against the West Indies, Schutt became the first Australian bowler to take a hat-trick in WODIs, and the first female bowler to take two hat-tricks in international cricket. In January 2020, she was named in Australia's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. She finished as the leading wicket taker with 13 wickets in the tournament which also included taking 4/18 in the final.

In January 2022, Schutt was named in Australia's squad for their series against England to contest the Women's Ashes. Later the same month, she was named in Australia's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. On 3 February 2022, in the first WODI match of the Women's Ashes, Schutt took her 100th wicket in WODI cricket.

In April 2022, she was bought by the London Spirit for the 2022 season of The Hundred. The following month, Schutt was named in Australia's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. In July 2022, in the 2022 Ireland women's Tri-Nation Series, Schutt took her 100th wicket in WT20I cricket.

She was named in the Australia squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup and the 2025 Women's Ashes series.

Personal life Schutt's nickname is "Shooter". She came out as lesbian, and married her long-term partner Jess Holyoake in 2019. An early supporter of same-sex marriage in Australia, Schutt stated that "saying partner is nice but when having to explain that it's a woman a lot of the time I think that often gets a reaction which isn't quite comfortable...now we're able to [just] say wife, flat out, and people know that's the deal." In May 2021, Schutt announced that Holyoake was expecting their first child.

In July 2025, Schutt announced on an Instagram post that she and Holyoake were ending their relationship after ten years.