Australian Women's Cricket Team In England In 2005
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Australian Women's Cricket Team In England In 2005
The Australian women's cricket team toured English women's cricket team, England in August and September 2005. They played five Women's One-day International, One-day Internationals (ODIs), two Women's Test cricket, Test matches and one Twenty20 International. They also played one One Day International against Irish women's cricket team, Ireland, which they won easily. They won two of the three ODIs, and were also looking to win the third, but a good last over from Katherine Brunt, yielding only four runs, gave England victory. Brunt was also the heroine of the second Test, where she took nine wickets in the match and made 52 in England's first Test win over the Australians since December 1984. It also gave England their first win in the Women's Ashes since 1963. England also won their next ODI thanks to a century from Claire Taylor, but Australia took the series 3–2 after winning the last ODI by just four runs. The last match of the series was a Twenty20 International, whi ...
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Clare Connor
Clare Joanne Connor (born 1 September 1976) is an English former cricketer who batted right-handed and bowled Left-arm orthodox spin, slow left arm spin. She held the presidency of Marylebone Cricket Club from 2021 until 2022. She made her English women's cricket team, England One Day International debut in 1995 and played her first Test cricket, Test match that winter. She achieved a Hat-trick (cricket), hat-trick against Indian women's cricket team, India in 1999 and captained England from 2000 until her retirement from international cricket in 2006. She is currently managing director of Women's Cricket for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). Early life and career Connor was born on 1 September 1976 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She was a pupil at Brighton College. She studied English at the University of Manchester, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1998. During her time at Manchester, Clare was a resident at Hulme Hall, Manchester, Hulme Hall. ...
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Women's Ashes
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Rosalie Birch
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Jenny Gunn
Jennifer Louise Gunn (born 9 May 1986) is an English former cricketer who plays as a right-arm medium bowler and right-handed batter. She appeared in 11 Test matches, 144 One Day Internationals and 104 Twenty20 Internationals for England between 2004 and her international retirement in October 2019. She played domestic cricket for Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire Diamonds, Loughborough Lightning, Northern Diamonds, Northern Superchargers, South Australia and Western Australia. Early career A seam bowler and lower-middle-order batsman, she is the daughter of former Nottingham Forest player Bryn Gunn. She played for Nottinghamshire and Western Australia and made her Test debut at 17 against New Zealand at Scarborough in 2004. She also played for Ransome & Marles CC, Newark, Nottinghamshire. A late injury forced her out of the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup final in Sydney but she was at the crease when England defeated New Zealand in that year's Worl ...
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Peter Willey
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Lorraine Elgar
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YMCA Cricket Club is a cricket club in Dublin, Ireland, playing in Division 1 of the Leinster Senior League (cricket), Leinster Senior League. The club was established in 1890 and acquired its current grounds at Claremont Road Cricket Ground, Claremont Road in 1911. Senior status was achieved in 1934 and the club won the Leinster Senior League for the first time in 1955. In 2024, the club withdrew from competitive cricket as a result of the ending of its lease of its grounds at Claremont Road Cricket Ground, Claremont Road. Former Ireland national cricket team, Irish internationals include Alan Lewis (rugby union and cricket), Alan Lewis, Angus Dunlop, Jonathan Garth (cricketer, born 1965), Jonathan Garth, Mark Nulty, Stewart M. Taylor, Keith Bailey (cricketer), Keith Bailey, Ian Lewis (cricketer), Ian Lewis, Roderick Gill, Reginald Lyons, Reinhardt Strydom, Albert van der Merwe and Trent Johnston. Honours *Leinster Senior League (cricket), Leinster Senior League: 7 **1955, 19 ...
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