Megan Banting

{{short description|Australian cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=March 2021}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Megan Banting

| female = true

| image = 2018–19 WF v SAS 18-09-23 Banting (01) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Banting batting for Western Australia, 2018

| country = Australia

| fullname = Megan Peta Banting

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|2|11|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Subiaco, Western Australia

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| batting = Right-handed

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| role = Wicket-keeper

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| club1 = Western Australia

| year1 = {{nowrap|2013/14–2020/21}}

| club2 = Perth Scorchers

| year2 = {{nowrap|2015/16–2018/19}}

| club3 = Perth Scorchers

| year3 = 2020/21

| columns = 2

| hidedeliveries = true

| column1 = WLA

| matches1 = 43

| runs1 = 499

| bat avg1 = 16.09

| 100s/50s1 = 0/2

| top score1 = 57*

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| catches/stumpings1 = 16/8

| column2 = WT20

| matches2 = 34

| runs2 = 130

| bat avg2 = 7.22

| 100s/50s2 = 0/0

| top score2 = 18

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| catches/stumpings2 = 3/1

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1165/1165071/1165071.html CricketArchive

| date = 27 March 2021

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Megan Peta Banting (born 11 February 1996) is an Australian cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batter.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/707069.html |title=Megan Banting |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=27 March 2021}}

Banting was raised in the Perth suburb of Tuart Hill. She made a memorable debut for Western Australia as a 14-year old in the Under 15s, in a match in which the WA team defeated New South Wales. At the 2012 Under 18 national titles, she scored 86 runs for WA, including 26 in the fifth-place final against South Australia.{{cite web|title=Megan Banting|url=http://www.waca.com.au/teams/western-fury/megan-banting|website=WACA website|accessdate=6 August 2017}}

After making her Fury debut in 2014–15, Banting was selected in the Shooting Stars squad to tour to Dubai in March–April 2015.{{cite web|title=Commonwealth Bank Shooting Stars squad for Dubai tour announced|url=http://www.cricketaustralia.com.au/media/media-releases/commonwealth-bank-shooting-stars-squad-for-dubai-tour-announced/2015-03-03|website=Cricket Australia website|accessdate=6 August 2017|date=3 March 2015}} She then became the Fury's number one keeper, ahead of veteran Jenny Wallace, for its 2015–16 WNCL campaign,{{cite web|last1=Raynor|first1=Bonnie|title=Banting & Graham named in Shooting Stars|url=http://www.perthscorchers.com.au/news/graham-banting-named-in-shooting-stars/2016-02-26|website=Perth Scorchers website|accessdate=6 August 2017|date=26 February 2016}}{{cite web|author1=Perth Scorchers Media|title=Banting & Graham named Shooting Stars|url=http://www.perthscorchers.com.au/news/banting-graham-named-shooting-stars/2016-08-11|website=Perth Scorchers website|accessdate=6 August 2017|date=11 August 2016}} and also kept wickets for the Scorchers in four matches during its inaugural WBBL{{!}}01 season (2015–16).

In February 2016, Banting was named in a Shooting Stars 13-player development squad to face Sri Lanka and England in a limited-overs tri-series in Sri Lanka beginning the following month. In August 2016, she was again selected for the Shooting Stars, this time to attend a talent camp at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane. In the first of the matches at the camp, she starred as a batter, with a score of 96 runs.{{cite web|title=Stars legends keep an eye on the future|url=http://www.cricketaustralia.com.au/media/feature-stories/stars-legends-keep-an-eye-on-the-future/2016-09-30|website=Cricket Australia website|accessdate=6 August 2017|date=30 September 2016}}

During the 2016–17 season, Banting was once again the Fury wicketkeeper, and kept wickets for the Scorchers in December 2016. However, she was then replaced in the Scorchers team by Emily Smith,{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/678843.html |title=Emily Smith|accessdate=6 August 2017 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}} who had been the Hobart Hurricanes keeper during the WBBL{{!}}01 season.{{cite web|last1=Jolly|first1=Laura|title=Cricket's biggest stars sign on for WBBL01|url=http://www.cricket.com.au/news/feature/womens-big-bash-league-player-signings-lanning-perry-healy-edwards-taylor-matthews-ferling-knight/2015-11-30|website=Cricket.com.au|accessdate=29 July 2017|date=30 November 2015}}

In November 2018, she was named in the Perth Scorchers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.{{cite web|url=https://www.cricket.com.au/news/wbbl-04-all-you-need-to-know-guide-tv-schedule-squads-when-fantasy-best-players/2018-11-30 |title=WBBL04: All you need to know guide |work=Cricket Australia |accessdate=30 November 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/25412608/the-full-squads-wbbl |title=The full squads for the WBBL |work=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=30 November 2018}}