Sophie Devine

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Sophie Devine
Sophie Devine after the Sydney Thunder vs Adelaide Strikers WBBL game at Robertson Oval.jpg
Devine playing for Adelaide Strikers, 2018
Personal information
Full name
Sophie Frances Monique Devine
Born (1989-09-01) 1 September 1989 (age 35)
Porirua, New Zealand
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
ODI debut(cap  102)22 October 2006 v  Australia
Last ODI29 October 2024 v  India
ODI shirt no.77
T20I debut(cap  12)18 October 2006 v  Australia
Last T20I20 October 2024 v  South Africa
T20I shirt no.77
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
Representing Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Women's Cricket
T20 World Cup
Winner 2024 UAE
Runner-up 2009 England
Runner-up 2010 West Indies
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Team

Sophie Frances Monique Devine (born 1 September 1989) is a New Zealand sportswoman, who has represented New Zealand in both cricket for the New Zealand national women's cricket team (White Ferns), and in field hockey as a member of the New Zealand women's national field hockey team (Black Sticks Women). [1] She has since focused on cricket. [2] She is known for not wearing a helmet when batting, a rarity in 21st century cricket. In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year. [3]

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In August 2018, she was awarded a central contract by New Zealand Cricket, following the tours of Ireland and England in the previous months. [4] [5] In October 2018, she was named in New Zealand's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. [6] [7] Ahead of the tournament, she was named as the star of the team. [8]

In July 2020, Devine was appointed as the captain of the New Zealand women's cricket team on a full-time basis, [9] taking over from Amy Satterthwaite. [10] In September 2021, in the second match against England, Devine played in her 100th WT20I. [11]

Early life

Devine was born in Kenepuru hospital, Porirua, New Zealand, and grew up in Tawa, a northern suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, where she attended Greenacres School and Tawa College. She began to play cricket and hockey at the age of four and wanted to become an All Black. At Tawa College, she played cricket mainly in the boys' teams including representative Wellington age group teams and the Tawa College boys first 11 and she played in the boys premier hockey team for the Tawa club. In her last year at Tawa College, she was awarded the bowling 'wicket' for the most wickets in the season. A previous winner was Black Caps Mark Gillespie. She started playing senior women's hockey at age 14 and made her first-class cricket debut as a 14-year-old. At the end of 2006, Devine shifted to Christchurch with her family when her father was relocated with his work. After attending Rangi Ruru Girls' School for her final high school year, she attended the University of Canterbury completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in sociology. [12]

Career

Devine batting for New Zealand during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020 ICC W T20 WC NZ v SL 02-22 Devine (01).jpg
Devine batting for New Zealand during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup

Devine was selected for the New Zealand women's national cricket team, the White Ferns, at age 17 and became one of the youngest-ever members of the team. She was in a home economics class at Tawa College when the White Ferns coach, Steve Jenkin, gave her the news. [13]

In November 2018, she was named in the Adelaide Strikers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. [14] [15] In March 2019, she was named as the ANZ International Women's T20 Player of the Year at the annual New Zealand Cricket awards. [16] She also took over when captain Amy Satterthwaite went on maternity leave. [17]

In January 2020, she was named as the captain of New Zealand's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. [18] On 10 February 2020, in the fourth WT20I match against South Africa, Devine scored her first century in a WT20I match. [19] In the same match, she became the first cricketer (male or female) to make five consecutive scores of fifty or more in T20Is. [20] In New Zealand's first match of the Women's T20 World Cup, against Sri Lanka, Devine became the first cricketer, male or female, to make six consecutive scores of fifty or more in T20I cricket. [21] She was the leading run-scorer for New Zealand in the tournament, with 132 runs in four matches. [22]

In November 2020, Devine was nominated for the ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Decade award. [23] [24] In February 2022, she was named as the captain of New Zealand's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. [25]

In April 2022, she was picked by the Birmingham Phoenix for the 2022 season of The Hundred in England. [26] In June 2022, Devine was named as the captain of New Zealand's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. [27]

In the inaugural season of the Women's Premier League in 2023, Devine was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the price of 50 Lakhs. [28]

In September 2024 she was named as captain of the New Zealand squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup [29] where they won the tournament. [30] [31] Devine's individual highlight at the event was scoring 57 not out in the group stage win over India. [32] [33]

Devine was named as captain of the New Zealand squad for their ODI tour to India in October 2024. [34]

Records

On 11 July 2015, Devine broke the international record (women) for the fastest Twenty20 half century (from 18 balls), and fastest 70 runs (from 22 balls), and included scoring 32 off one over in the first match against India. [35] She holds the record for scoring the fastest ever fifty in Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) history (from 18 balls). [36] [37] During a match against Pakistan at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, Devine became the first woman to hit nine sixes in Women's One-day International cricket. [38] [39] In 2020, she became the first player (male or female) to score fifties in 6 consecutive T20Is. [40] In January 2021, she broke the women's T20 record for the fastest century, scoring 100 in 36 balls for Wellington Blaze against Otago Sparks in the 2020–21 Super Smash. [41]

International centuries

In February 2013, in a return to international cricket after an absence of two-and-a-half years, Devine scored her maiden international century, 145 runs from 131 balls, in New Zealand's opening match of the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup against South Africa. She also combined with Suzie Bates in a 128-run partnership, and followed up with partnerships of 64 with Sara McGlashan and 102 with Nicola Browne. [42] [43] During the innings, Devine hit 13 fours and six sixes, [42] although she later said, "I couldn’t find the middle of the bat. I felt really scratchy, like I was never in really good flow." [43]

Some five years later, in the course of just 10 matches between October 2017 and July 2018, Devine made her next four ODI centuries, against four different opponents, in four different countries. [44] She scored no further international centuries until 2020, when she made her maiden T20I ton, against South Africa at home. [45] On that occasion, she shared in another big partnership – of 142 – with Bates, and in another victory for New Zealand. "I know I was a little bit lucky in that knock,” she said later. "I think I got dropped a couple of times, but you sort of ride that." [43]

In March 2022, she made a further WODI century, against the West Indies during the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup, also in New Zealand. [44]

On 30 June 2023, she combined with Amelia Kerr in a 229-run partnership to lead New Zealand to a 116-run victory in the second of a three-ODI bilateral series against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. It was the third-highest partnership by New Zealand's women for any wicket in ODIs. Each player scored a century; Devine finished with 137 runs, including 17 fours and two sixes, from just 121 balls. [46] [47]

One Day International centuries [44]
No.RunsOpponentsCity/CountryVenueYear
1145Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa Cuttack, India DRIEMS Ground 2013 [48]
2103Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Sharjah Cricket Stadium 2017 [49]
3108WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies Lincoln, New Zealand Bert Sutcliffe Oval 2018 [50]
4108Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Dublin, Ireland The Vineyard 2018 [51]
5117 * Flag of England.svg  England Leicester, England Grace Road 2018 [52]
6108WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies Mount Maunganui, New Zealand Bay Oval 2022 [53]
7137Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka Galle, Sri Lanka Galle International Stadium 2023 [54]
T20 International centuries [45]
No.RunsOpponentsCity/CountryVenueYear
1105Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa Wellington, New Zealand Basin Reserve 2020 [55]

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