Amy Beach Yates (born 30 September 1998) is an Australian

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

er who plays as a right-arm

medium pace Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling. Practitioners of pace bowling are usually known as ''fast'' bowlers, ''quicks'', or ''pacemen''. T ...

bowler and right-handed batter. She last played for the ACT Meteors in the

Women's National Cricket League The Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) is the national domestic 50-over competition for women's cricket in Australia. Featuring seven teams—one from every state, plus the Australian Capital Territory—each season's winner is awarded the ...

(WNCL). Yates originally signed for

Melbourne Renegades The Melbourne Renegades are an Australian professional men's Twenty20 franchise cricket club based in Melbourne, the capital city of the Australian state of Victoria. They compete in the Australian Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash ...

ahead of the 2016–17 WBBL season, but she played just one match and was not retained. She returned to the Renegades for the 2020–21 WBBL season. Yates joined the ACT Meteors in 2019. In just her second WNCL game she took six wickets for 33 runs against the South Australian Scorpions, which were the best bowling figures in Meteors history.

References

External links

* *
Amy Yates
at

Cricket Australia Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the 'Australian Board of Control for International Crick ...

1998 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Australian women cricketers ACT Meteors cricketers Melbourne Renegades (WBBL) cricketers {{Australia-cricket-bio-1990s-stub