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Full name | Elspeth Marinha Compton Fowler | ||||||||||||||
Born | Northampton, England | 14 August 1992||||||||||||||
Nickname | Hermione Granger | ||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||
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T20I debut(cap 3) | 5 May 2022 v Austria | ||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 27 October 2024 v Croatia | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
2010 | Buckinghamshire | ||||||||||||||
2016 | Cambridgeshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNCricinfo,30 October 2024 |
Elspeth Marinha Compton Fowler (born 14 August 1992) is an English-born cricketer resident in Spain,who plays for the Spanish women's national cricket team as a right-handed batter. In May 2022,she captained Spain in its debut Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) against Austria.
Born at Northampton,England, [1] she was raised at Chesham,Buckinghamshire. [2] At the age of 8,she first attended Sunday morning sessions at her local cricket club,where she was enthused by the coaches. [3]
From 2003 until 2010,Fowler attended Chesham High School (now Chesham Grammar School). [4] In 2005,she played for Buckinghamshire Girls Under-13 team,and then from 2006 through 2008 she progressed through the County Girls Under-17 and Under-19 teams. [5]
In 2010,Fowler went up to Pembroke College,Cambridge,where she read Modern and Medieval Languages, [4] graduating in 2014 as BA (proceeding MA). [4]
Fowler played for the Cambridge University Cricket Club,being awarded Cambridge half blues in 2011,2012 and 2014; [2] [4] she also represented her college at basketball and played in the Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia. [4]
In 2010,Fowler was selected to play for Buckinghamshire CCC 1st XI. [5] In 2016,she played two Women's Twenty20 Cup matches for Cambridgeshire CCC. [1]
Since 2019,she has played for the La Manga Torrevieja Cricket Club,in the region of Murcia,southeastern Spain. [3] [6] In November 2019,while touring with the LMTCC men's team in Cártama,she helped bowl the team to victory in a weekend tournament. [3]
In 2020,Fowler was appointed Director of Women's Cricket for Cricket Spain,in which capacity she is involved in training women cricketers. [7] In July 2021,she made her captaincy debut,at the helm of LMTCC's Development XI,in a 40-over match against Torre-Pacheco CC at the La Manga Club Ground. [8]
Also in 2021,she played for Team White in Cricket Catalonia's Women's T10 tournament. [9]
On 5 May 2022,Fowler made her WT20I debut for,and also captained,Spain against Austria in the first match of the 2022 France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series,held at Dreux Sport Cricket Club,Dreux,France. [6] [10] The match was also Spain's first ever WT20I, [1] [10] [11] and Fowler top-scored hitting 26 runs off 36 balls. [12]
The following day,6 May 2022,against Jersey,Fowler scored 29 runs off 46 balls. [13] [14] She did even better in a second match against Austria on 7 May 2022,with 44 in 50 balls, [15] [16] and in Spain's final match of the tournament,against France on 8 May 2022,with 42* in 58 balls. [17] [18] She finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer,with 141 runs,and with a WT20I batting average of 47.00. [19] [20] The Spanish team did not win any matches but,according to Cricket Spain's website,"... took positives from all the four games they played in." [21]
Since 2016,Fowler works in Murcia as an account manager for G's Group, [22] a fresh produce business headquartered in East Anglia,England. [4] [23] [24]
Fowler's cricketing nickname,Hermione Granger,came courtesy of her then-new teammates at La Manga Torrevieja in 2019. [3] While on cricket tours,she is accompanied by her mascot,a stuffed toy monkey named Crookshanks. [3]
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