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The Sydney Sixers have taken a positive step to shore up their bowling stocks by signing teenage bowling all-rounder Angelina Genford for Weber WBBL|08.
The 19-year-old made her WBBL debut last season for the Hobart Hurricanes but will return to Sydney, where she has made a name for herself in Premier Cricket and the NSW Pathway system, for this year’s Big Bash.
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Genford also made her debut for the NSW Breakers last summer, playing a solitary match, in which she recorded figures of 0-14 (4 overs) with the ball, before top scoring with 45 not out, batting at number 10.
It was in that batting innings, with wickets tumbling at a rate of knots, that Genford gave the surest indication of her composure and undoubted talent – so much so that she secured her first full-season domestic contract with the ACT Meteors.
Genford was out at dinner in Darwin on a pre-season training camp when she received the call from her manager that Sixers List Manager Lisa Sthalekar was keen on a chat.
“It really came out of the blue,” Genford says of the call.
“I didn’t have a WBBL contract so the call came at a good time.
“I’m pretty excited. The Sixers are such a well-known club with some big names that I am really looking forward to playing with.
“I’ve played plenty of club cricket at Bankstown with Erin Burns and Ash Gardner and I also played most of my pathways cricket with Stella Campbell and Jade Allen so I am looking forward to playing with them again.”
Genford, who is studying to be a Bachelor of Community Services, works with kids with disabilities in Canberra in between study and her training and playing commitments with the Meteors.
Genford’s signature comes a week after Sixers superstar and skipper Ellyse Perry signed on for an eighth season at the club.
Sydney Sixers WBBL Squad
Head Coach: Charlotte Edwards
Contracted Players: Ellyse Perry (C), Jade Allen, Nicole Bolton, Maitlan Brown, Erin Burns, Stella Campbell, Lauren Cheatle, Ash Gardner, Ange Genford, Alyssa Healy
Sydney Sixers WBBL|08 Home Fixtures
Wed 16 Nov | Sydney Sixers v Brisbane Heat | North Sydney Oval | 7:10pm
Fri 18 Nov | Sydney Sixers v Sydney Thunder | North Sydney Oval | 7:05pm
Sun 20 Nov | Sydney Sixers v Hobart Hurricanes | North Sydney Oval | 1:40pm
The Sydney Sixers are an Australian professional Twenty20 cricket team competing in the Big Bash League (BBL). Based at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the Sixers, along with the Sydney Thunder, succeeded the New South Wales Blues from the now-defunct KFC Twenty20 Big Bash.
