Cameron John Gannon (born 23 January 1989) is an Australian-American

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er. He has played Australian domestic cricket for

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and

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Domestic career

Born in

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. Retrieved 2011-11-01. Gannon is one of the

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Old Boys. He began playing cricket as a junior with Ipswich Brothers and Ipswich Grammar School.Smeaton, P
''Gannon planning to be raging Bull''
, The Queensland Times, 17 October 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-01. Aged 19 he played for a season in

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, England, for the Sonning Club. Gannon made his first-class debut in a

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match against

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in October 2010. Gannon signed with the

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in 2012 and made his Twenty20 debut in the

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. From 2015 to 2017 he had stints with both the

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and the

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. In June 2020, Gannon joined Western Australia on a three-year deal. In 2024 he was one of Western Australia's best players in their

win over Tasmania. Gannon was named as a replacement player for the

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in January 2025. He played the last three games of the

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, including the final.

International career

In August 2019, he was named in the United States' squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament. He made his

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(T20I) debut for the United States against

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on 18 August 2019. He is qualified through his mother, who is American. In January 2021,

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named Gannon in a 44-man squad to begin training in Texas ahead of the 2021 Oman Tri-Nation Series. Gannon was not selected for the United States team for the

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, as he didn't play in their selection tournament. This was due to him playing first class cricket for Western Australia at the time.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gannon, Cameron 1989 births Living people American cricketers Australian cricketers Cricketers from Ipswich, Queensland Queensland cricketers Brisbane Heat cricketers Melbourne Renegades cricketers Melbourne Stars cricketers Hobart Hurricanes cricketers United States Twenty20 International cricketers Western Australia cricketers Australian people of American descent People educated at Ipswich Grammar School 21st-century Australian sportsmen