Jonathan Hill (born 11 December 1990) is a Filipino-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 striki ...

er who is the current captain of the Philippines cricket team. Hill was born in

Goulburn, New South Wales Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters patent ...

, Australia, and gained a

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in 2012, qualifying through his mother, who comes from

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. He has played for the Philippines cricket team since 2017, and also works as a school teacher in Australia. In December 2018, Hill lead the Philippines team, as they won Group B of the

2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Qualifier The 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Qualifier was the tournament played in Fiji and Philippines as part of qualification process for the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup. Twelve regional qualifiers were held by the International Cricket Counc ...

tournament, with Hill saying "there is something special about this side". Therefore, after winning the qualifier, the Philippines progressed to the Regional Finals, with Hill again named captain of the side for the tournament. In March 2019, he was named in the Philippines squad for the Regional Finals of the

tournament. He made his

Twenty20 International A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...

(T20I) debut for the Philippines against

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on 22 March 2019. He was part of the Philippines' team for the

2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Global Qualifier A The 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Global Qualifier A was a cricket tournament that took place in February 2022 in Oman, as one of two global tournaments that together form the final stage of the qualification process for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 Wor ...

tournament in Oman.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Jonathan 1990 births Living people Australian people of Filipino descent Sportspeople of Filipino descent Australian cricketers Filipino cricketers Philippines Twenty20 International cricketers Sportspeople from Goulburn Cricketers from New South Wales