Karen Louise Rolton is an Australian former cricketer and captain of the national women's team. A left-handed batter,she has scored the most runs for her country in women's Test cricket.
Belinda Jane Clark is an Australian former international 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.
Sandhya Agarwal is a former captain of the Indian women's cricket team. She hails from Indore.
Enid Bakewell played for the English women's cricket team in 12 Tests between 1968 and 1979,and in 23 one-day international matches. A right-handed batter and slow left-arm orthodox bowler,on her figures she has a strong claim to be regarded as the best all-rounder that the English women's game has produced. In Tests she scored 1,078 runs at an average of 59.88,with 4 centuries,as well as taking 50 wickets at an average of 16.62. In what proved to be her final Test,she scored 68 and 112* and took 10 for 75 against West Indies at Edgbaston in 1979. Her final WODI appearance was in the final of the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup.
Sophie Frances Monique Devine is a New Zealand sportswoman,who has represented New Zealand in both cricket for the New Zealand national women's cricket team,and in field hockey as a member of the New Zealand women's national field hockey team. She has since focused on cricket. She is known for not wearing a helmet when batting,a rarity in 21st century cricket. In December 2017,she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.
Aimee Louise Watkins is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as an all-rounder.
Suzannah Wilson Bates is a New Zealand cricketer and former captain of national women cricket team. Born at Dunedin,she plays domestic cricket for the Otago Sparks,as well as playing for the White Ferns. She currently holds the highest score and highest batting average in the New Zealand Women's Twenty20 cricket team. She won the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year 2013. Bates again won ICC Women's ODI and T20I Cricketer of the Year 2015.
Murugesan Dickeshwashankar Thirush Kamini is an Indian cricketer who has played 39 women's one-day internationals for the Indian women's cricket team.
Rachel Holly Priest is a New Zealand cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batter. She played for New Zealand between 2007 and 2020.
Amy Ella Satterthwaite is a New Zealand cricketer and a former vice-captain of New Zealand's women team. Satterthwaite plays for the Canterbury Magicians in New Zealand domestic cricket and the Melbourne Renegades in the Australian Women's Big Bash League. She also played internationally for New Zealand in women's One Day Internationals (ODI) and women's Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) from 2007 to 2022,appearing at the Women's Cricket World Cup in 2009 and 2013. On 26 February 2017 against Australia she became the first player in WODI and second overall after Kumar Sangakkara in ODI to score four consecutive hundreds. In December 2017,she won the inaugural ICC Women's ODI Player of the Year award. In September 2018,Suzie Bates stepped down as captain of New Zealand and was replaced by Satterthwaite.
Jill Kennare captained the Australia national women's cricket team on four occasions. A right-handed batswoman,she made her debut against New Zealand in 1979 and played 12 Test matches up to her last,against England in 1985.
Punam Ganesh Raut,sometimes spelt Poonam Raut,is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's national team.
Denise Audrey Annetts is a former women's cricketer for New South Wales Breakers and Australia whose international playing career ran from 1985 until 1993. A right-handed batsman,Annetts scored centuries in both Tests and One Day Internationals.
Heather Clare Knight is an English cricketer who is captain of the England women's cricket team. She is a right-handed batter and right arm off spin bowler. Knight played in her 100th Women's One Day International match for England in December 2019.
Meghann Moira Lanning is an Australian cricketer who currently captains the national women's team. She has been a member of six successful world championship campaigns,winning two Women's Cricket World Cup and four ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles. Lanning holds the record for the most Women's One Day International centuries and is the first Australian to score 2,000 Twenty20 International runs. Domestically,she is the captain of Victoria in the Women's National Cricket League and the Melbourne Stars in the Women's Big Bash League.
Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani is a Sri Lankan cricketer and the current captain of the women's Twenty20 International team of Sri Lanka. She had a short stint as the captain of the Sri Lanka women's team,and was succeeded by the previous captain Shashikala Siriwardene. Chamari was the tenth captain for Sri Lanka women's national cricket team,winning only one ODI,with 13 losses. 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.
