Teague Wyllie (born 24 April 2004) is an Australian

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er who plays for

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and has also played for the

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. In early December 2021, Wyllie was named in Australia's training squad of 37 players for the

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. Later the same month, Wyllie was selected in Australia's final squad of fifteen players for the U19 Cricket World Cup. Wyllie played in all six of Australia's matches, finishing the tournament as the team's leading run-scorer, with 278 runs. In Australia's first group match, against the

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, Wyllie top-scored in the match with an unbeaten 86 runs. In Australia's third match, against

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, Wyllie was again the top-scorer in the match, scoring 101

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. Following the conclusion of the tournament, the

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(ICC) named Wyllie in their most valuable team of the tournament, the only Australian in the squad. Wyllie made his first-class debut on 23 March 2022, for

in the penultimate match of the

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, where he scored 42 runs in the first innings. He became the youngest cricketer to make his first-class debut for Western Australia since

Cameron Green Cameron Donald Green (born 3 June 1999) is an Australian cricketer who plays for Western Australia and Perth Scorchers as an all-rounder. He made his international debut for the Australia national cricket team in December 2020. Career Green g ...

made his debut in February 2017. Western Australia made the final of the Sheffield Shield, with Wyllie playing in the match, with Western Australia winning the tournament.

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