Henry James Hunt (born 7 January 1997) is an Australian

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er, currently playing for

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as an opening batsman.

Early life and career

Hunt grew up living on a farm near a small town between Grenfell and

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. His father, James Hunt, had played for the

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, a

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team, and built a cricket net in the backyard of their family home. He originally played grade cricket for Queanbeyan District and was first selected to play for the ACT/NSW Country Comets in the 2014–15 season of the

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. Hunt played for Australia under-19s in 2015–16, and he was named in Australia's squad that was scheduled to play in the

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, but withdrew from the tournament due to security concerns. In the 2018–19 season Hunt scored 208 in a Futures League match against Queensland Under-23s, followed by another four half-centuries during the season. He was the tournament's leading run-scorer with 737 runs at an

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of 46.06. During the 2018–19 season, Hunt also played for

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, and he equalled Johan Botha's record for the fastest Twenty20

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in the competition, scoring 104 runs off of 45 deliveries against

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. He made his

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debut on 2 January 2022, for the

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in the

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South Australia

On the back of his performances in the 2018–19 season, Hunt earned a rookie contract with

for the 2019–20 season. He made his first-class debut on 10 October 2019, against

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in the

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. In his first innings he scored his maiden half-century, finishing with a total of 75 runs. On 11 November 2019, in a Sheffield Shield match against

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, Hunt scored his maiden century in first-class cricket in just his fourth first-class match. He scored 132 and had a 293-run partnership with

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, breaking a 52-year-old record for the highest opening partnership for South Australia in first-class cricket. In Hunt's innings he hit 17 boundaries, including a six. Hunt followed up his century with another half-century in the second innings. He made his

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debut on 28 November 2021, for South Australia in the

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. On 25 February 2022, Hunt was named as captain of South Australia for the remainder of the

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in the absence of

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and Alex Carey.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Henry 1997 births Living people Australian cricketers South Australia cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) Adelaide Strikers cricketers People from the Central West (New South Wales) Cricketers from New South Wales