Belinda Jane Clark is an Australian former cricketer and sports administrator. A right-handed batter,she served as the captain of the national women's team for eleven years and was a member of triumphant World Cup campaigns in 1997 and 2005. The first player to record a double century in the One Day International (ODI) format of the game,Clark has scored the most runs and captained the most matches of any Australian woman in ODIs. She has also achieved emphatic success domestically,winning five championships with New South Wales and two with Victoria while playing in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL).
The Australian women's national cricket team represent Australia in international women's cricket. Currently captained by Meg Lanning and coached by Shelley Nitschke,they are the top team in all world rankings assigned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the women's game.
Charlotte Marie Edwards is an English former cricketer and current cricket coach and commentator. She played primarily as a right-handed batter. She appeared in 23 Test matches,191 One Day Internationals and 95 Twenty20 Internationals for England between 1996 and 2016. She played domestic cricket in England for East Anglia,Kent,Hampshire and Southern Vipers,as well as overseas for Northern Districts,Western Australia,Perth Scorchers,South Australia and Adelaide Strikers.
Amy Ella Satterthwaite is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as an all-rounder,batting left-handed and bowling either right-arm medium or off break. She appeared in 145 One Day Internationals and 111 Twenty20 Internationals for New Zealand between 2007 and 2022. She played domestic cricket for Canterbury,Tasmania,Hobart Hurricanes,Melbourne Renegades,Lancashire Thunder,Lancashire and Manchester Originals.
Margaret Jean Jennings is an Australian former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and wicket-keeper. She appeared in eight Test matches and 12 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1972 and 1978,and captained Australia in one Test match and three One Day Internationals. She played domestic cricket for Victoria.
Ellyse Alexandra Perry is an Australian sportswoman who has represented her country in cricket and soccer. Having debuted for both the national cricket team and the national soccer team at the age of 16,she is the youngest Australian to play international cricket and the first to have appeared in both ICC and FIFA World Cups. Gradually becoming a single-sport professional athlete from 2014 onward,Perry's acclaimed cricket career has continued to flourish and she is now widely considered to be one of the greatest female players ever.
Alyssa Jean Healy is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Australian women's national team and New South Wales in domestic cricket,as well as the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL. She made her international debut in February 2010.
Anya Shrubsole is an English former cricketer who played as a right-arm medium pace bowler and right-handed lower-order batter. She played for England between 2008 and 2022,and played domestic cricket for Somerset,Berkshire,Western Storm,Southern Vipers,Southern Brave and Perth Scorchers. She made her England debut in 2008,and was Player of the Match in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Final. In 2018,she became the first woman to appear on the cover of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. In April 2022,Shrubsole announced her retirement from international cricket. In June 2023,she announced her intention to retire from all forms of cricket after the 2023 season of The Hundred.
Rachael Louise Haynes is an Australian former international cricketer who has won six world championships as a member of the national women's team. A left-handed batter,Haynes was vice-captain of Australia from 2017 to 2022. Domestically,she achieved prolonged success in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL),winning seven titles with New South Wales and two with the Sydney Thunder.
Tamsin Tilley Beaumont is an English cricketer who currently plays for Kent,The Blaze,Welsh Fire,Melbourne Renegades and England. She plays primarily as an opening batter and occasional wicket-keeper. She has previously played for Surrey Stars,Adelaide Strikers,Southern Vipers,Sydney Thunder and London Spirit.
Danielle Nicole Wyatt is an English cricketer who plays for Sussex,Southern Vipers,Southern Brave and England. She plays as an all-rounder,batting right-handed and bowling right-arm off break. She made her England debut against India in Mumbai on 1 March 2010.
Meghann Moira Lanning is an Australian cricketer who formerly captained the national women's team. Lanning has been a member of seven successful world championship campaigns,winning two Women's Cricket World Cup and five ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles. She holds the record for the most Women's One Day International centuries and is the first Australian to score 2,000 Twenty20 International runs.
Nicole Elizabeth Bolton is an Australian former cricketer who played as a left-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler for Australia and a number of domestic teams in Australia,New Zealand and England.
Bethany Louise Mooney is an Australian professional cricketer who plays for the national cricket team as a batter in all three formats of the game. At the domestic level,she plays as a wicket-keeper-batter for Western Australia and Perth Scorchers. In March 2020,at the conclusion of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020,she became the world's number one batter in Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket.
Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani is a Sri Lankan cricketer and the current captain of the women's Twenty20 International team of Sri Lanka. She is the captain of the Sri Lanka women's team. Chamari was the tenth captain for Sri Lanka women's national cricket team. In November 2017,she was named the Women's Cricketer of the Year for the 2016–17 season at Sri Lanka Cricket's annual awards. She is the first Sri Lankan woman to play in franchise cricket.
Deepti Bhagwan Sharma is an Indian cricketer who plays for Bengal,Birmingham Phoenix and India. She is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm off break and is currently ranked 3rd in the top all-rounders in the ICC Cricket Rankings. She is also the current third highest individual scorer by a woman cricketer in ODIs.
Kimberley Jennifer Garth is an Irish-Australian cricketer who currently plays for Victoria,Melbourne Stars and Australia. An all-rounder,she plays as a right-arm medium bowler and right-handed batter. Between 2010 and 2019,she played international cricket for Ireland,the country of her birth,playing more than 100 matches for the side,before deciding to move to Australia. She made her international debut for Australia in December 2022.
Kirstie Louise Gordon is a Scottish cricketer who currently plays for Kent,The Blaze and Trent Rockets as a slow-left arm orthodox bowler. She played for Scotland from 2012 to 2017,before switching nationality to England for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament. She has previously played for Nottinghamshire,Loughborough Lightning,Birmingham Phoenix and Otago.
Alana Maria King is an Australian international cricketer. She also plays domestic cricket for Western Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Perth Scorchers in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). An all-rounder,she bowls right-arm leg spin and bats right-handed. She previously played for Victoria and Melbourne Stars.
Charlotte Ellen Dean is an English cricketer who currently plays for Hampshire,Southern Vipers and London Spirit. An all-rounder,she is a right-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler. She made her international debut for the England women's cricket team in September 2021.
