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| Full name | Yvonne Graves | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 October 1998 Halifax, West Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Teresa Graves (twin sister) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–present | Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Lightning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Northern Diamonds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yvonne Graves (born 10 October 1998) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Nottinghamshire. An all-rounder,she is a right-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler. She previously played for Yorkshire,Lightning and Northern Diamonds. [1] [2]
Graves was born on 10 October 1998 in Halifax,West Yorkshire. Her twin sister,Teresa,also plays for Nottinghamshire. [2]
Graves made her county debut in 2014,for Yorkshire against Surrey. [3] She only played one more county match for Yorkshire,in 2015,again against Surrey. [4]
Ahead of the 2017 season,Graves joined Nottinghamshire. That season,in a match against former side Yorkshire,Graves made 40 before being bowled by her twin sister Teresa. [5] In 2018,she made her maiden List A half-century,scoring 57 against Somerset in a 112 run victory. [6] In 2021,Graves helped her side to winning the East Midlands Group of the Twenty20 Cup,and achieved her T20 high score of 42,in a victory over Derbyshire. On the same day,against the same opposition,she also took her T20 best bowling figures,of 3/11. [7] [8] In the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup,she scored 76 runs and took five wickets in seven matches. [9] [10] She played one match for the side in the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup. [11]
Partway through the 2020 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,Graves was called up to the Lightning squad,but did not play a match that season. [12] The following season she was selected as part of the full squad,and made her debut for the side on 29 May,against Southern Vipers in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. [13] She went on to take six wickets in the tournament,including her List A best bowling figures of 3/43,taken against South East Stars. [14] [15] She also appeared in three matches in the Charlotte Edwards Cup,taking two wickets. [16]
Ahead of the 2022 season,Graves signed for Northern Diamonds. [17] She played three matches for her new side that season,across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. [18] [19] She was included in the Northern Diamonds squad in 2023,but did not play a match. [20] At the end of the season,Graves left the club. [21]