Sydney Sixers: Hughes receives Breakers contract

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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.

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Sixers teenager Emma Hughes has received her first NSW Breakers contract.

The 19-year-old pace bowler was one of three new faces in the Breakers 2020/21 squad announced on Thursday including Brisbane Heat pace bowler Sammy-Jo Johnson and batter Anika Learoyd, 18.

Hughes potential was identified last season when signed to her first professional contract by the Sixers.

Super stars Alyssa Healy and Ashleigh Gardner headline eight other Sixers on the Breakers contract list including Erin Burns, Stella Campbell, Lauren Cheatle, Maddy Darke, Hayley Silver-Holmes and Lauren Smith.

NSW Breakers 2020-21 squad

Alyssa Healy ( c )*

Rachael Haynes*

Ashleigh Gardner*

Erin Burns

Stella Campbell

Lauren Cheatle

Maddy Darke

Hannah Darlington

Lisa Griffith

Emma Hughes

Sammy-Jo Johnson

Anika Learoyd

Phoebe Litchfield

Hayley Silver-Holmes

Lauren Smith

Rachel Trenaman

Tahlia Wilson

*Cricket Australia contracted

Name of Author: Sydney Sixers

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