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| Full name | Katherine Elizabeth Speed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 October 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–present | Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Huntingdonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2024 | Sunrisers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,19 October 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Katherine Elizabeth Speed (born 5 October 2001) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Essex. An all-rounder,she is a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. [1] [2]
Speed made her county debut in 2016,for Essex against Nottinghamshire,scoring 7*. [3] In 2018,she helped her side to promotion from Division 3C of the Twenty20 Cup. [4] In 2021 she took her maiden county wickets,both against Kent in consecutive games on 9 May. [5]
Speed played for Huntingdonshire in the East of England Championship in 2020 and 2021,including hitting 62 from 53 balls in a match against Hertfordshire in the 2020 tournament. [6] In 2022,she only played for Essex,playing two matches in the Twenty20 Cup,scoring 45 runs. [7] She played four matches for the side in the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup,scoring 47 runs and taking one wicket. [8] [9]
In 2021,Speed was selected in the Sunrisers squad for their upcoming season. [10] She made her debut for the side on 29 May,against South East Stars in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. [11] She was ever-present in Sunrisers' 2021 Charlotte Edwards Cup campaign,scoring 60 runs including her Twenty20 high score of 26*. [12] [13] She played four matches for Sunrisers in 2022,across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. [14] [15] She was again in the Sunrisers squad in 2023 and 2024,but did not play a match in either season. [16]