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| Full name | Alice Natica Davidson-Richards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 May 1994 Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test(cap 164) | 27 June 2022 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut(cap 130) | 6 April 2018 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 14 September 2023 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut(cap 42) | 23 March 2018 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 22 December 2022 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2024 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2019 | Yorkshire Diamonds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018/19 | Otago Sparks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2024 | South East Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Northern Superchargers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025–present | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alice Natica Davidson-Richards (born 29 May 1994) is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey and Northern Superchargers. [1] A right-handed batter and right-arm pace bowler,she made her county debut for Kent in 2010. [2] She made her debut for England in March 2018. [3]
Davidson-Richards was born on 29 May 1994 in Royal Tunbridge Wells,Kent. [1] She attended Epsom College,Surrey,England,where,between 2007 and 2011,she played cricket alongside her future England teammate and fellow Test centurion Nat Sciver-Brunt. [4] She later studied at the University of Leeds,and has worked as a personal trainer. [5]
Davidson-Richards made her Kent debut in 2010,in a match against Surrey in the 2010 Women's Twenty20 Cup. [2] She scored 29 opening the batting alongside Charlotte Edwards,and then took four wickets as Kent completed an 80-run victory. [6] Davidson-Richards went on to take 10 wickets in the tournament,ending it as the second-highest wicket-taker. [7] She went on to become a regular for Kent in both formats,and was part of Kent's title-winning campaigns in the Women's County Championship in 2011,2012,2014,2016 and 2019,and in the Women's Twenty20 Cup in 2011,2013 and 2016. [8] [2]
In the Women's Cricket Super League,Davidson-Richards played in all four seasons for the Yorkshire Diamonds. She was more successful with the ball throughout the competition,and was her team's second highest wicket-taker in 2017 and 2018,and their joint highest in 2019. [9] [10] [11] In 2020,Davidson-Richards played three matches for the South East Stars in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,and scored 61 in a match against Sunrisers. [8] [12] She made her List A high score playing for the side in 2021,scoring 92 against Western Storm. [13] [14] She also played six matches in the side's victorious Charlotte Edwards Cup campaign. [15] She played for Northern Superchargers in 2021 season of The Hundred,taking seven wickets and scoring 110 runs in seven matches. [16] She was South East Stars' joint-leading wicket-taker in the 2022 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,as well as scoring two half-centuries. [17] She was also Northern Superchargers' leading wicket-taker in The Hundred,with 7 wickets. [18] She was South East Stars' second-highest run-scorer and joint-second leading wicket-taker in the 2023 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,and Northern Superchargers' joint-second leading wicket-taker in the 2023 season of The Hundred. [19] [20]
Davidson-Richards played for Otago in the 2018/19 season. She scored two half-centuries in both the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield and the Super Smash,as well as taking 8 wickets in the Shield. [21] [22] [23]
In March 2018,Davidson-Richards was named in the England squad for their tri-series against India and Australia. [24] She played all five matches in the tournament,scoring 28 runs in three innings and bowling four overs for no wicket. [25] [26] In the following ODI series against India,Davidson-Richards played one match,scoring 9 runs as England lost by 1 wicket. [27]
In February 2019,Davidson-Richards was awarded a rookie contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for 2019 and in 2020 she was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training following the COVID-19 pandemic. [28] [29]
In December 2021,Davidson-Richards was named in England's A squad for their tour to Australia,with the matches being played alongside the Women's Ashes. [30]
In June 2022,Davidson-Richards was named in England's Women's Test squad for their one-off match against South Africa. [31] She made her Test debut on 27 June 2022,for England against South Africa, [32] scoring a century in England's first innings. [33]