Erin Burns

Some Lesser Known Facts About Erin Burns

• Erin Burns is an Australian cricketer and a registered exercise physiologist under Exercise Sports Science Australia (ESSA). She is an all-rounder and played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League.

• In 2002, she participated in her first country cricket championship with the New South Wales Under-17 Women’s team.

• In 2005, when Erin was 16 years old, her father died after battling cancer.

• In 2009, she made her debut for the Tasmania state team (Tasmanian Roar) in the first official edition of the Australian Women’s Twenty20 Cup.

  

• On 16 October 2010, she made her Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) debut with the Tasmanian Roar. The New South Wales Women were their opponents and she scored 51 runs from 43 balls.

• In 2010, she won the Tasmania State Player of the Year Award.

• In 2011, she received the Elite Athlete Program (EAP) scholarship provided by the Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness (SUSF).

• In April 2013, Erin started working as a physiotherapist at the Physiotherapy and Sports Injury Clinic in North Sydney, NSW and also at the Military Road Physiotherapy in Neutral Bay, NSW.

• In late 2013, she suffered a cartilage tear on her knee and was sidelined for the rest of the season.

• In 2015, she completed a 1000 km bike ride from Wollongong, Central Sydney to Melbourne, Victoria as a tribute to her father who passed away in 2005. She raised funds for a charity organization to promote awareness about cancer.

• She was part of the Wellington Blaze team that clinched the 2014-2015 New Zealand Women’s Twenty20 Cup.

• Erin won the 2014-2015 Sydney Women’s First Grade competition with the Bankstown Sports Women’s Cricket Club.

• She was part of the Hobart Hurricanes team in the inaugural season (2015-2016) of the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL).

• After spending two seasons at Hobart Hurricanes, Erin was signed by the Sydney Sixers at the beginning of the 2017-2018 season of the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) and she won her first WBBL title in the same season.

  

• In 2017, it was announced that she was playing for the Australian Capital Territory Women (Intravision ACT Meteors) in the Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL).

• In February 2019, she was named to the Governor-General XI Women’s squad for the New Zealand Women’s tour of Australia; she scored 28 runs from 32 balls.

• Ellyse Perry presented Erin with her first ODI cap. On 8 September 2019, she made her ODI debut against the West Indies Women’s team at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound.

• On 14 September 2019, she made her international T20 debut against the West Indies Women at Bridgetown, Barbados.

• On 14 December 2019, she scored 107 runs from 59 balls for the Australia A Women’s team and was named Player of the Match against the India A Women’s team during their tour of Australia.

• The Women’s Big Bash League match on 4 November 2020, between the Brisbane Heat Women and Sydney Sixers Women at the Blacktown Olympic Park Oval in Sydney, marked Erin’s 50th appearance for the Sydney Sixers.

• On 18 November 2020, she took three wickets and caught four catches against Sydney Thunder in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL); Erin won the Player of the Match award.

• In January 2020, she underwent arthroscopic surgery on her knee. She was named to the Australian women’s team for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup; she was expected to be fit for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. However, some complications in the surgery affected the recovery plan and she missed the Australia women’s Tri-Nation Series before the World Cup; it was the final warm-up match before the ICC T20 World Cup. Erin lacked match fitness and was forced to watch her team play in the World Cup from the sidelines; she did not feature in any of the World Cup matches and the Australian women’s team went on to win the World Cup.

  

• She was named to the Australia Women’s squad for the Rose Bowl series against the New Zealand Women’s team; however, she did not feature in any of the matches.

  

• In 2021, she became part of the WNCL-side New South Wales Women’s team. On 10 February 2021, she made her debut for New South Wales Women against Victoria Women. She scored 80 runs (not out) from 48 balls and took one wicket from eight overs at an economy of 5.12 against Victoria Women on 17 December 2021.

• Erin Burns was named the 2021 Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) Player of the Tournament.

• She was part of the Birmingham Phoenix Women’s team for the inaugural season (2021-2022) of The Hundred; she scored 156 runs from nine matches and her highest score in the tournament was 45 runs from 28 balls against the Oval Invincibles Women she scored on 4 August 2021.

• Erin was supposed to join the Sydney Sixers team for the 7th edition (2021-2022) of the Women’s Big Bash League after her return from The Hundred. Later it was announced that she took an extended break and would miss the start of the tournament to be with her pregnant wife; she was supposed to join the team for the rest of the season, however, she missed the entire WBBL07 season due to Australia’s state border restrictions. On 20 January 2022, her son, Jack Mitchell Murphy Burns, was born.

• In August 2022, Manchester Originals replaced Deandra Dottin with Erin Burns for the 2022-2023 season of The Hundred.

• Before the start of the 2022-2023 season of the WBBL, she announced that she signed a two-year contract extension with the Sydney Sixers; she enjoyed a stellar season and was named to the Team of the Tournament.

• On 13 January 2023, she scored 74 runs from 92 balls for the Governor-General XI Women and was named the player of the match against the Pakistan Women. Her fourth wicket partnership with Charli Knott was instrumental in their 53 runs victory.

• She was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore for her base price of Rs. 30 Lakhs for the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League. On 10 March 2023, she made her debut for Royal Challengers Bangalore against the UP Warriorz Women and scored 12 runs from nine balls before Deepti Sharma took her wicket; this was her only appearance for the team in the 2022-2023 season of the Women’s Premier League.

• In an interview, she pointed out that she preferred playing in the T20 format over the ODI or Test cricket formats.