Megan Louise Schutt (born 15 January 1993) is an Australian cricketer who has played for the national team as a fast-medium bowler since 2012.
[3] Schutt was born in Adelaide,[1] into what she has praised as a "loving family", headed by her parents Brian and Sue.
[4] Together with her older sister Natalie, with whom she shared a bedroom, and her younger brother Warren, Schutt was raised in a modest home in Hackham West, an outer southern suburb of Adelaide.
"A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Schutt made her international debut against New Zealand,[1] a match in which she bowled expensively, conceding 33 runs from five overs.
[7] She collected two wickets in her next match, against the same opposition,[8] and was rated by ESPNcricinfo's review of women's cricket in 2012 as a player to watch in the following year.
[12] The Daily Telegraph described her rapid rise from playing club cricket to being the leading bowler in the World Cup as "meteoric", but Schutt explained that the humidity in India favoured her swing bowling.
[14] Her best bowling performance for Australia was the three wickets for 40 runs she claimed in the World Cup group match against New Zealand.
[22] In November 2018, she was named in the Adelaide Strikers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.
[36] The following month, Schutt was named in Australia's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
An early supporter of same-sex marriage in Australia, Schutt stated that "saying partner is nice but when having to explain that it's a woman a lot of the time I think that often gets a reaction which isn't quite comfortable...now we're able to [just] say wife, flat out, and people know that's the deal.