Hernán Fennell (born 2 February 1988) is an Argentine

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er. He played in the

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tournament and the 2019 South American Cricket Championship, a

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(T20I) tournament at

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near

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, Peru. Fennell was head coach of a Cricket Sin Fronteras (Cricket Without Borders) cricket team from Buenos Aires that went to Rome in 2017 to play against St Peter’s Cricket Club; there they had an audience with

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. The project began in 2009 and offers alternatives to violence and crime for young people in at-risk neighborhoods; almost 800 boys and girls, aged between six and twenty, were learning to play cricket in 2017. In 2019 Fennell continues as head coach and participants exceed 1500. Besides being a Level II Coach certified by the

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Fennell is a physical education teacher, with a

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registration. In September 2019, he was named in Argentina's

(T20I) squad for the men's tournament at the 2019 South American Cricket Championship. He made his T20I debut for Argentina, against

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, on 3 October 2019. In November 2021, he was named as the captain of Argentina's squad for the

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tournament in Antigua. On 10 November 2021, in Argentina's match against

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, Fennell became the first bowler for Argentina to take a hat-trick in T20Is.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fennell, Hernan 1988 births Living people Argentine cricketers Argentina Twenty20 International cricketers Place of birth missing (living people)