Cameron John Gannon (born 23 January 1989) is an Australian-American

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er. He was a member of the 2011–2012

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squad. Born in Baulkham Hills,

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. Retrieved 2011-11-01. Gannon is one of the

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. He began playing cricket as a junior with Ipswich Brothers and Ipswich Grammar School.Smeaton, P
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, The Queensland Times, 17 October 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-01. Aged 19 he played for a season in

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, England, for the Sonning Club. Gannon made his first-class debut in a

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match against

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in October 2010. Gannon signed with

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in 2012 made his Twenty20 debut in 2012 in the KFC Big Bash League. In August 2019, he was named in the United States' squad for the

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of the

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tournament. He made his

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(T20I) debut for the United States against

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on 18 August 2019. He is qualified through his mother, who is American. In June 2020, Gannon joined Western Australia on a three-year deal. In January 2021,

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named Gannon in a 44-man squad to begin training in Texas ahead of the 2021 Oman Tri-Nation Series.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gannon, Cameron 1989 births Living people American cricketers Australian cricketers Cricketers from Sydney Queensland cricketers Brisbane Heat cricketers Melbourne Renegades cricketers Melbourne Stars cricketers United States Twenty20 International cricketers Western Australia cricketers Australian emigrants to the United States American people of Australian descent People educated at Ipswich Grammar School