- Caoimhe Bray made historical past on Sunday within the WBBL
- She scored the successful runs within the Sixers win vs the Renegades
- Bray additionally performs in objective for the Junior Matildas
Fifteen-year-old cricketing sensation Caoimhe Bray made a historic Girls’s Massive Bash League debut for the Sydney Sixers on Sunday, as she grew to become the youngest participant to ever function within the event.
Born in September 2009, Bray had solely celebrated her fifteenth birthday final month however is making waves as one in every of Australia’s most promising younger sporting stars, with the teenage prodigy additionally enjoying as a goalkeeper for the Junior Matildas.
The all-rounder lately signed a three-year cope with the Sixers and would come into the motion early on, after she bowled out Deandra Dottin after bowling only one over.
She would later come again to seal the win for the Sixers in a sensational efficiency hanging 12 runs off simply 5 deliveries to assist Sydney win by three wickets.
‘I have never seen a 15-year-old hit a 4 over cowl like that to win a recreation earlier than, in order that’s a primary,’ Sixers captain Ellyse Perry, one other star to characterize Australia throughout two sporting codes, mentioned.
‘She’s very particular, a legend, and we’re very fortunate to have her on our workforce.’
{The teenager} described Perry as her idol earlier than including that it was a ‘dream come true to play alongside her’.
‘In case you ask all my major faculty buddies, each faculty undertaking was about her,’ Bray mentioned.
‘She gave me the cap earlier than the sport and I used to be crying a bit bit. It was actually thrilling – a reminiscence I will not overlook.’
Perry went on to strike a sensational 81 runs of 38 deliveries and took two wickets from 4 overs. Georgia Wareham was Sydney’s second finest scorer, hitting 61 runs off 31 balls.
Bray has made 18 appearances for Australia’s junior ladies’s soccer workforce.
Caoimhe Bray, 15, starred taking a wicket and scoring the successful runs for the Sydney Sixers
Bray made her WBBL debut final night time within the Sydney Sixers’ win in opposition to the Melbourne Renegades
The Sixers star (centre) additionally performs in objective for the Junior Matildas and mentioned she is but todecide which sport she prefers
She had made her debut for the Sixers earlier this October enjoying within the Girls’s T20 Spring Problem in opposition to the ACT Meteors.
She additionally made her worldwide footballing debut on the AFC Underneath 17 Girls’s Asia Cup in Indonesia.
‘I’m nonetheless enjoying soccer. I wish to preserve doing them each for so long as I can and this WBBL contract isn’t going to cease me from enjoying soccer,’ she advised Fox Sports activities in a latest interview.
Requested if she prefers both sport, she mentioned: ‘I don’t know, I significantly don’t know.
‘I’ve introduced the soccer ball down (to Sydney) so I would go right down to the park and kick a ball round. However proper now I can’t do a lot coaching as a result of my workforce’s up in Newcastle and I’m staying down in Sydney for these few months.’
