Lea Tahuhu

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Lea Tahuhu
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Tahuhu bowling for New Zealand during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Personal information
Full name
Lea-Marie Maureen Tahuhu
Born (1990-09-23) 23 September 1990 (age 33)
Christchurch, New Zealand
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium fast
Role Bowler
Relations Amy Satterthwaite (wife)
International information
National side
ODI debut(cap  122)14 June 2011 v  Australia
Last ODI12 December 2023 v  Pakistan
ODI shirt no.6
T20I debut(cap  34)25 June 2011 v  India
Last T20I5 December 2023 v  Pakistan
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
Representing Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Women's Cricket
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Team

Lea-Marie Maureen Tahuhu (born 23 September 1990) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays as a right-arm fast bowler. She made her international debut for the New Zealand women's cricket team in June 2011. [1]

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Career

In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year. [2]

In August 2018, she was awarded a central contract by New Zealand Cricket, following the tours of Ireland and England in the previous months. [3] [4] In October 2018, she was named in New Zealand's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. [5] [6] Ahead of the tournament, she was named as one of the players to watch. [7]

In November 2018, she was named in the Melbourne Renegades' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. [8] [9] In January 2020, she was named in New Zealand's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. [10] In August 2021, she was named in New Zealand's squad for the limited overs series against England which also marked her comeback return to the national side after 18 months since being diagnosed with a mole on her left foot. [11] [12] On 21 September 2021, in the third match against England, Tahuhu took her first five-wicket haul in WODI cricket. [13]

In February 2022, she was named in New Zealand's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. [14] In July 2022, Tahuhu was added to New Zealand's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. [15]

Personal life

Tahuhu attended Aranui High School, [16] and won the Peter Hooton Memorial Scholarship in 2008. [17] She is married to fellow international cricketer Amy Satterthwaite. [18] On 13 January 2020, Satterthwaite gave birth to a child and took an extended paid maternity leave. [19]

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