Heather Graham

Some Lesser Known Facts About Heather Graham

• Heather Graham is an Australian cricketer who has represented the Australian national team in many tournaments and played many tournaments for Western Australia and Tasmania. She is regarded as one of the most talented allrounders in Australia.

• She started playing cricket during her childhood and played for Clarence Cricket Club.

• She made her debut for Western Australia in the 2011-12 season at the age of twelve and played for them till the 2019-20 season. From the 2020-21 season, she started playing for Tasmania, and in the first season for them, she scored runs at an average of 40.57 and emerged as the highest wicket-keeper by taking 11 wickets. Her highest score in the season was 116 runs.

• In 2011, she was selected for the Junior Australian team and helped them to clinch the 2011 Indoor Cricket Junior World Series.

• In 2014, she played for the Essex team in county cricket.

• From June 2015 to August 2017, she worked in a construction company named Repave Spray on Paving as a clerk.

• She was selected as a standby player for the Australian team in the 2022 ODI World Cup held in New Zealand.

• In a match against India on 20 December 2022, she took 4 wickets for 8 runs including a hattrick by claiming the wickets of Devika Vaidya, Radha Yadav, and Renuka Singh and the fourth wicket of Deepti Sharma. During this match, she became the second Australian bowler to take a hattrick in a T20I.

• She is one of the most consistent allrounders of the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) and has more than 100 runs and 100 wickets in the league. From the inaugural edition of WBBL in 2015-16 till WBBL-7 in the 2021-22 season, she played for Perth Scorchers and scored 23 runs and took 2 wickets for 30 runs in the final match of WBBL-7 against Adelaide Strikers to help them win the trophy. She signed up with Hobart Hurricanes for the WBBL-8 in the 2022-23 season.

• In 2019, she was awarded Australia’s Domestic Player of the Year for her good performances.

  

• She signed up with Trent Rockets for the 2021 season of the 100-ball tournament The Hundred and signed up with Northern Superchargers for the 2022 season of the league.

  

• In the auction for the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) in 2023, she signed up with Mumbai Indians for the base price of Rs30 lakhs.

• She has a pet dog named Elvis.

  

• She likes to play golf and football in her leisure time.