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Full name | Alexia Laurette Walker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England | 26 November 1982||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut(cap 97) | 10 August 2001 v Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 12 August 2001 v Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1998–2015 | Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023–present | Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,6 March 2021 |
Alexia Laurette Walker (born 26 November 1982) is an English cricketer who plays as an all-rounder. She is a right-handed batter and right-arm fast-medium bowler. She appeared in three One Day Internationals for England in August 2001,making her debut against Scotland. In total she took one wicket and scored 14 runs. [1] She played domestic cricket for Sussex from 1998 to 2015,before returning to play for them in 2023. [2] [3]
In June 2009 Walker was appointed as the cricket director at Brighton College,a co-educational private school in Brighton. She is the first woman cricket director at an English private school. Previously she was cricket performance manager at Loughborough University. [4]
In January 2010 Walker became one of only three women to pass the ECB Level 4 Coaching Certificate and was believed to be the youngest candidate of either sex to gain the award. [5]
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