Freya Sargent


Freya Alexandra Sargent is an Irish cricketer who plays for the Ireland [women's cricket team] and Typhoons.
She is an off-spinner and right-handed batter who primarily plays as a bowler for the national team.
In 2023 she was part of the Ireland women's [under-19 cricket team|Ireland U-19 Women's] side that took part in the T20 World Cup">Twenty20">T20 World Cup where she picked up 4 wickets.
Sargent plays her club cricket for Clontarf.

Biography

Sargent received her first senior call up when she was named in the Typhoons squad for the 2020 season. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Irish women's domestic Super Series was limited to eight List A games only, with no T20 fixtures taking place.
She made her List A debut on 3 August 2020 for Typhoons against Scorchers at Oak Hill [Cricket Club Ground|Oak Hill] aged just 14.
Sargent would make her T20 debut at the same ground just over a year later on 8 August 2021, again against Scorchers.
She would appear sporadically for Typhoons in 2022 before receiving a call-up for the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup late that year. In Ireland's opening game of the tournament against the West Indies women's under-19 [cricket team|West Indies] she would return figures of 2/9 and hit 15* before Ireland lost the match by seven runs.
After beating Indonesia, Ireland would qualify for the Super Sixes stage but not win any further games in the competition.
2023 would prove to be a breakthrough year for Sargent. In March she was announced as a recipient of a casual contract from Cricket Ireland and two months later she won Player of the Match for her 4/15 in a victory against Scorchers in a Super 20 Trophy match at Anglesea Road.
A first call up to the Ireland senior team would come in August for a three-match T20I series against the Netherlands. Head Coach Ed Joyce noted that "Freya Sargent has impressed at youth international and Super Series level and has earned a call-up...she also performed well at the Under-19s World Cup at the start of the year, so I have no doubt she'll be well positioned for a step up in standard.”
She made her WT20I debut in the first match of the series on 14 August, going wicketless from her four overs. A maiden international wicket would come two days later in the second game as she bowled Babette de Leede.
Sargent's WODI debut came against Scotland in October at Desert Springs in Spain. She picked up two wickets, followed by another two scalps in the second match. However injury would force her to sit out the third ODI and the subsequent T20I series.
Her return came during Zimbabwe in 2023–24|Ireland's tour of Zimbabwe] in January 2024 where she took her best ODI figures of 3/29 in a 10-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the first ODI.
Sargent was named in the Ireland squad for their T20I and ODI tour to Bangladesh in November 2024.
She was among the four player shortlist for the ICC Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2024.