Caroline de Fouw

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Caroline de Fouw
Personal information
Full name
Margaretha Everdine Caroline de Fouw
Born (1966-05-12) 12 May 1966 (age 57)
The Hague, Netherlands
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off spin
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Only Test(cap  2)28 July 2007 v  South Africa
ODI debut(cap  27)16 July 1991 v  Denmark
Last ODI9 July 2008 v  West Indies
T20I debut(cap  2)1 July 2008 v  West Indies
Last T20I12 July 2018 v  Uganda
Career statistics
Competition WTest WODI WT20I WLA
Matches135642
Runs scored216314196
Batting average 1.006.794.667.53
100s/50s0/00/00/00/0
Top score223823
Balls bowled1201,0991061,471
Wickets 326640
Bowling average 17.0025.3019.6619.77
5 wickets in innings 0000
10 wickets in match0000
Best bowling3/273/233/314/14
Catches/stumpings 1/–9/00/–9/–
Source: CricketArchive, 3 December 2021

Margaretha Everdine Caroline de Fouw (born 12 May 1966) is a Dutch former cricketer who played as a right-arm off break bowler. She appeared in one Test match, 35 One Day Internationals and 6 Twenty20 Internationals for the Netherlands between 1991 and 2018. [1] [2] Her tally of 26 ODI wickets has only been surpassed by Carolien Salomons and Sandra Kottman for the Netherlands. [3]

Born in The Hague, de Fouw played club cricket for KZKC (Klein Zwitserland de Krekels Combinatie). [4] Her Dutch national team debut came in the 1986 Women's Quadrangular Tournament in Ireland, where she played against Ireland and Denmark. [5] De Fouw made her ODI debut aged 25, at the 1991 European Championship, which was being held in the Netherlands for the first time. [6]

Aged 42 at the time of her last ODI, de Fouw is the oldest woman to appear in an ODI for the Netherlands, [7] and her ODI career span of almost 17 years has only been surpassed by fourteen women worldwide. [8]

In April 2008, de Fouw served as a coach for the ICC European Women's Academy in La Manga Club, Spain. [9] She later gained a Level-3 coaching diploma from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), [10] and has worked in various development roles with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB), the governing body for Dutch cricket. [11]

In June 2018, she returned to international cricket for the first time since 2008, playing for the Netherlands at the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament. [12] She was at the time the oldest woman from any country to appear in a Twenty20 International. [13]

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References

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