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The Hobart Hurricanes are pleased to announce the signing of 19-year-old young gun Julia Cavanough and 25-year-old Tabatha Saville as Rachel Trenaman’s injury replacement to their Weber WBBL|09 squad for the upcoming 23-24 season.
Cavanough has been part of the Tasmanian Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) and WBBL squads since the 2022-23 season.
She featured in ten WNCL games for the Tasmanian team last season, taking six wickets with her left-arm swing bowling wreaked havoc for opposing top orders this year.
Playing against the Queensland Fire last year, Cavanough opened the bowling for Tasmania with a devastating first over with a triple-wicket maiden.
General Manager of High-Performance, Salliann Beams is excited to see what this season has in store for Cavanough.
“Julia (Cavanough) will be looking to impress throughout this season, and her left-arm bowling will bolster our bowling line-up in the 2023-24 WBBL season.”
Tabatha Saville rounds out the WBBL squad of 15 for the 2023-24 season as an injury replacement for Rachel Trenaman.
Saville who was born in Fiji and grew up in Alice Springs, has played 29 matches in the WBBL since her debut for the Adelaide Strikers in 2017.
The former Lauren Ebsary Award winner and Karen Rolton Medallist returned to cricket this year after an extended break, featured in the first Tasmanian WNCL game of the season where she took three catches.
Saville is an explosive right-handed middle-order batsman whose game is very well suited to the T20 game.
She will look to build on a strong pre-season with the Tasmanian squad and will want to establish herself in the Hurricanes line-up for the first game in Launceston on Friday.
Salliann Beans discussed the depth Saville will provide the Hurricanes WBBL squad this season.
“Saville’s batting will provide our squad with another option in the middle to lower order of the team. Her power will add an element to the strong squad we have in place.”
Cavanough and Saville join Nicola Carey, Maisy Gibson, Heather Graham, Shabnim Ismail (o/s), Ruth Johnston, Lizelle Lee (o/s), Emma Manix-Geeves, Hayley Silver-Holmes, Amy Smith, Bryony Smith (o/s), Naomi Stalenberg, Molly Strano, and Elyse Villani as players currently announced as contracted to the Hurricanes for WBBL|09.
The Hurricanes will get their WBBL|09 season underway on Friday 20 October, when they take on the Perth Scorchers at Launceston’s University of Tasmania Stadium.
