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Full name | Louise Catherine Broadfoot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm Leg-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut(cap 137) | 24 June 2001 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 6 July 2001 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut(cap 92) | 3 December 2000 v Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 1 April 2005 v Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1996/97 –2004/05 | Victorian Spirit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005/06 –2009/10 | Queensland Fire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricInfo,21 June 2014 |
Louise Broadfoot (born 26 February 1978 in Melbourne) is an Australian former cricket player. [1]
Broadfoot played domestic cricket for the Victorian Spirit between 1996 and 2004 and the Queensland Fire between 2005 and 2010. [2] She played 113 Women's National Cricket League matches and five Women's Twenty20 matches. [3]
Broadfoot played two Tests and ten One Day Internationals for the Australia national women's cricket team. [1] Broadfoot was the 137th woman to play Test Cricket for Australia, [4] and the 92nd woman to play One Day International Cricket for Australia. [1] Broadfoot also served in the Australian Army in Afghanistan.
Originally from Melbourne,her sister is Marianne Edwards (nee Broadfoot),associate principal second violin in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra [5] and her brother is barrister Andrew Broadfoot KC, [6] former Australian rowing representative [7] and part owner of 2015 Melbourne Cup winner Prince of Penzance. [8] [9]
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