Shawn Hicks (born 10 July 1995) is a South African-born former

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er who played in New Zealand for

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and

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between the 2015–16 and 2018–19 seasons. After being forced to retire from the professional game at the age of 23 he has worked as a cricket coach and administrator. Hicks was born at

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in 1995 and played under-13 cricket for Northerns in South Africa before moving to New Zealand with his family, attending

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.Shawn Hicks
CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2023. An all-round sportsman at school, he was a "very promising"

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player and was selected for a national training squad.Seconi A (2022
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'', 28 October 2022. Retrieved 29 February 2024. He played age-group cricket for Auckland and represented the

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before making his first-class debut on 17 December 2015 in the 2015–16 Plunket Shield. He made his

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debut on 27 December 2015 in the

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. In June 2018, he was awarded a contract with

for the 2018–19 season, his last in senior cricket, and, aged 23, was forced to retire from the game at the end of the season as a result of a series of concussions, following on from similar injuries he received whilst playing rugby. In 17 first-class matches Hicks scored 651 runs and took seven wickets. He also played in 26 List A and 16 Twenty20 matches in his senior career. Following his retirement from cricket he completed a degree in accounting, worked in administration for a year and has since moved to work for Sport Otago. He has coached the Otago under-17 side, the

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team, and in 2022–23 coached University-Grange Cricket Club, a leading

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club side, as well as assisting with the coaching of the

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, the province's top-level women's side.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hicks, Shawn 1995 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Auckland cricketers Otago cricketers People from Centurion, Gauteng South African emigrants to New Zealand Naturalised citizens of New Zealand Cricketers from Gauteng People educated at Auckland Grammar School