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Full name | Marie Kelly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Birmingham, England | 9 February 1996|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–present | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017 | Loughborough Lightning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | Southern Vipers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020–2021 | Central Sparks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021 | Birmingham Phoenix | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022–present | The Blaze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022 | Trent Rockets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023–present | Northern Superchargers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023–present | Trinbago Knight Riders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,17 October 2023 |
Marie Kelly (born 9 February 1996) is an English cricketer who is currently the captain of Warwickshire,as well as playing for The Blaze,Northern Superchargers and Trinbago Knight Riders. She plays primarily as a right-handed batter. She led Warwickshire to the 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup title,and was the leading run-scorer in Division 1 that year. She previously played for Southern Vipers,Central Sparks,Birmingham Phoenix and Trent Rockets. [1] [2] [3]
Kelly was born on 9 February 1996 in Birmingham,West Midlands. She has a degree in Sports Science from Loughborough University. Her twin sister,Sian,played for Warwickshire between 2011 and 2017. [2] [4]
Kelly made her county debut in 2011,for Warwickshire against Cheshire. She scored 12 runs and bowled 2 overs for no wicket. [5] In 2012,in two innings over one weekend playing for Warwickshire Under-17s,Kelly scored 201* and 110* and soon after became a regular in Warwickshire's first team. [3] She hit her maiden T20 half-century in 2013,against the Netherlands. [6]
Kelly began captaining Warwickshire in 2015,standing-in for Rebecca Grundy. She became permanent captain of the side in 2016. [7] In 2019,Kelly led her side to victory in the Twenty20 Cup. Warwickshire topped Division 1 by one point after beating runners-up Lancashire in the final match,with Kelly top-scoring with 76. [8] [3] She also ended the season as the leading run-scorer in Division 1. [9] Kelly was Warwickshire's leading run-scorer in the 2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup,with 162 runs at an average of 81.00. [10] She was again Warwickshire's leading run-scorer in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup,with 192 runs at an average of 32.00. [11] She scored two half-centuries on the same day in a double-header against Gloucestershire,99 from 61 deliveries in the first match and 60 from 27 deliveries in the second. [12] [13] In the second match,her half-century came from 15 deliveries,which is the fastest recorded fifty in Women's Twenty20 cricket. [14] She played two matches for Warwickshire in the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup,scoring 75 runs and taking two wickets. [15] [16]
Kelly also played in the Women's Cricket Super League,for Loughborough Lightning in 2017 and Southern Vipers in 2019. [2] She played one match for Loughborough,in which she scored 18 runs against Western Storm. She played five matches for the Vipers,scoring 13 runs at an average of 4.33. [17] [18] In 2020,Kelly was announced as part of the Central Sparks squad for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She was the side's second-highest run-scorer,with 223 runs at an average of 55.75,and scored two half-centuries. [19] In December 2020,it was announced that Kelly was one of the 41 female cricketers that had signed a full-time domestic contract. [20]
In 2021,Kelly scored 182 runs for Central Sparks in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,including two half-centuries. [21] In a Charlotte Edwards Cup match against Southern Vipers,Kelly hit 100* from 53 balls,her Twenty20 high score and first ever century,to help her side to a 6 wicket victory. [22] She also signed to play for Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred,but only made one appearance in the competition. [23] At the end of the season it was announced that Kelly had moved to Lightning,and signed a professional contract with her new side. [24] She played eleven matches for Lightning in 2022,across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,scoring 197 runs and taking six wickets. [25] [26] She also played seven matches for Trent Rockets in The Hundred,scoring 40 runs. [27]
In 2023,she played 20 matches for The Blaze (the new name for Lightning),across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup,scoring one half-century and taking three wickets. [28] [29] She moved to Northern Superchargers for The Hundred,scoring 176 runs including one half-century. [30] She also played for Trinbago Knight Riders in the 2023 Women's Caribbean Premier League,scoring 57 runs and taking six wickets. [31]
Kelly has also been a part of the Emerging Players Programme,the England Women's Academy and played for the England Under-19s. [3]
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