Julie Lauren Hunter (born 15 March 1984) is a female cricketer who played for Victorian Spirit, Tasmanian Tigers and Australia.

[1][2] After playing for the Australian Under-19 team in 2002–03, Hunter made her senior debut for Victoria in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) the following season.

She was not trusted with much responsibility in her first season, and bowled less than 60% of the maximum possible quota of overs, and was dropped mid-way through the finals series against New South Wales, which was lost.

After being attacked in the first final against New South Wales, she was dropped, but returned for the third match and scored 15 and took 2/13 to help seal the WNCL title.

Starting in 2005–06 Hunter struggled for four seasons, taking 8, 7, 6 and 8 wickets respectively, with her annual average and economy rate rising from 31.00 and 3.70 to 39.75 and 4.33 respectively.

Hunter was selected for the Victoria Blue team to compete in the Under-17 interstate competition in March 2000 at the age of 15.

She took 1/32 from 9.1 overs in her first match, against Western Australia, and had the winning runs hit from her bowling as Victoria lost by two wickets.

However, New South Wales hit back the next day, and won by five wickets, taking 10 runs from Hunter's two overs.

[3] Hunter was hit for more than five runs per over in two wicketless displays in the last two matches of the season against Queensland, both of which were lost.

In the second match of the season, she took 2/14 from four overs as Victoria defeated reigning champions New South Wales by six wickets.

[3] In the deciding match, Hunter conceded 13 runs from only two overs as New South Wales reached their target of 206 with three wickets in hand to seal a three-wicket win and the WNCL.

She struggled against New South Wales taking 0/27 from five overs in a nine-wicket defeat, and took 1/37 in a three-wicket loss the next day.

The following week, she took 0/15 from eight overs as New South Wales reached their target of 120 with six wickets in hand to win the title.

She took 3/45 from 9.5 overs in a one-wicket win the Australian Capital Territory, before conceding 46 runs from 36 wicketless balls against the same team the following day.

Victoria went on to meet New South Wales in the final, where Hunter took 1/44 from her ten overs, dismissing Lisa Sthalekar and taking two catches in the defending champions' 9/206.

Hunter started successfully with 3/5 from 15 balls against Western Australia, and then 3/13 from 3.3 overs against Queensland, setting up strong Victorian wins by 74 and 92 runs.

This included the fixture against South Australia in which she made 22 in a tail-wagging performance to push the total to 9/120 before taking 1/9 from three overs to help secure an 18-run win.

[3][7] She then played in all three ODIs in New Zealand as fellow right-arm fast bowler Rene Farrell was left out.

In the run-chase she made six not out at the death as Australia reached the target with two wickets in hand from the last ball of the match.

[3] Hunter was selected for the 2010 World Twenty20 in the West Indies but spent almost the entire tournament watching from the sidelines, playing in only the two warm-up matches.

[3] Hunter was not used in the tournament itself, after succumbing to a shoulder injury, and the three pace bowlers used were Clea Smith, Ellyse Perry and Rene Farrell.

[10][11][12][13][14] She holds the record for taking the most number of wickets in WT20I in a single calendar year(24)[15] In January 2017, Hunter announcement her retirement from cricket.

[17][18] She has said that the former is due to her "... striking resemblance to Randall Boggs, the lizard thing from Monsters, Inc.," and that the latter alludes to her surname.