Grace Margaret Harris (born 18 September 1993) is an Australian

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er who made her international debut for the

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in August 2015. An

all-rounder An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are consi ...

, she is a right-handed

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and right-arm

off break Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner. Off spinners are right-handed spin bowlers who use their fingers to spin the ball. Their normal delivery is an off break, which spi ...

bowler. She plays for

Queensland Fire The Queensland Women cricket team, also known as the Konica Minolta Queensland Fire, is the women's representative cricket team for the Australian State of Queensland. They play most of their home games at Allan Border Field, Brisbane and they ...

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) and

Brisbane Heat The Brisbane Heat are an Australian men's professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team that competes in the Big Bash League. The Heat wears a teal uniform and are based in Brisbane in the Australian state Queensland. Their home ground is the Br ...

in the

Women's Big Bash League The Women's Big Bash League (known as the WBBL and, for sponsorship reasons, the Weber WBBL) is the Australian women's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition. The WBBL replaced the Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup, which ran from the 2007–08 ...

(WBBL). Harris's older sister is fellow Brisbane Heat cricketer

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Career

In June 2015, she was named as replacement for

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in the T20I squad who was unable to recover from a lower back issue and made her T20I debut against the Ireland Women as the part of

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. In December 2015, she made 103 runs from 55 balls, and also took four wickets, for

against

Sydney Sixers The Sydney Sixers are an Australian professional franchise men's cricket team, competing in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League (BBL). Along with the Sydney Thunder, the Sixers are the successors of the New ...

, thus drawing much early attention to

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of the WBBL. In January 2016, she was named in national squad for WODI and T20I against India Women. Later this month she made her WODI debut against the India Women as the part of Indian women's cricket team in Australia in 2015–16. In November 2018, she was named in

's squad for the

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. On 19 December 2018, she scored the fastest innings of 100 runs in the WBBL, off 42 balls. In December 2020, Harris scored two centuries in two days for Western Suburbs in the

Queensland Premier Cricket Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queensland, Australia. The competition was founded under the name Brisbane Electoral Cricket in 1897 and eventually came to be known as Brisbane Grade Cricket, but has since expa ...

league. In January 2022, Harris was named in Australia's A squad for their series against England A, with the matches being played alongside the

Women's Ashes The Women's Ashes is the perpetual trophy in women's international cricket series between England and Australia. The name derives from the historic precedent of the Ashes in male cricket and, until 2013, was similarly decided exclusively on the ...

. Later the same month, she was named in Australia's team for the

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in New Zealand. In May 2022, Harris was named in Australia's team for the cricket tournament at the

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, England. In the inaugural season of the Indian Women's Premier League in 2023, Grace Harris was bought by

UP Warriorz The UP Warriorz are an Indian women's cricket team that compete in the Women's Premier League (WPL), based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The team is owned by Capri Global. The team is coached by Jon Lewis and captained by Alyssa Healy. The side re ...

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