Alexandra Louise MacDonald (born 3 October 1991) is an English

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er who plays as an

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, batting left-handed and

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right-arm

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. She has played domestic cricket for

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

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, North Representative XI,

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

and

Northern Diamonds Northern Diamonds were a women's cricket team that represented the traditional areas of the Northumbria (modern), North East and Yorkshire, one of eight regional hubs in English domestic women's cricket. They primarily played their home matches ...

Early life

MacDonald was born on 3 October 1991 in

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Domestic career

County cricket

MacDonald made her county debut in 2008, for

against

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

, in which she scored 34 in a 216 run victory. She took her maiden county five-wicket haul a year later, taking 5/12 against Dorset, as well as scoring her first county half-century the same season, with 59 against

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. She played for Gloucestershire until the 2014 season, with her best season coming in 2013, when she hit 468 runs in the

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, the third highest overall, with 1 century and 4 half-centuries. MacDonald played for

in the 2014 Women's Twenty20 Cup, and was their leading run-scorer in the competition, with 193 runs including her

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high score of 71 *. She also played one match for Gloucestershire in the 2014 Women's County Championship, in which she hit her highest

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score, of 117 *. She played one more season for Yorkshire, in 2015, in which she took 4/28 in a match against

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. In 2016, MacDonald played one season for

, in which she was most successful in the 2016 Women's Twenty20 Cup, scoring 99 runs at an average of 24.75. In 2017, she returned to Gloucestershire for one match, in which she hit 81 against

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. After a season's break, MacDonald returned to Yorkshire for the 2019 season, and was most successful with the ball in the

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, taking 8 wickets at an average of 7.62. In 2021, MacDonald was named as part of the Yorkshire contingent of the North Representative XI squad for the

, as well as playing one match for Yorkshire. She hit one half-century for the North Representative XI, scoring 50 to help her side to a 5 wicket victory over North East Warriors. In 2022, she joined

for the

, scoring 56 * in the second of two matches she played for the side that season.

Regional cricket

MacDonald was also in the

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squad for the

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, but did not play a match. In 2020, MacDonald played for

in the

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. She appeared in seven matches as the side reached the final, scoring 122 runs at an average of 20.33 and taking 4 wickets at an average of 20.25. Her high score for the side came in a match against

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, in which she scored 92 to bring the team within one win of the final. In 2021, she played seven matches for the side across the

and the

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, with a high score of 39. She also took 9 wickets in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, including her

best bowling figures of 4/17, taken against

Western Storm Western Storm were a women's cricket team that represented South West England and Wales, one of eight regional hubs in English domestic cricket. They primarily played their home matches at the County Ground, Taunton, the County Ground, Bristol ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:MacDonald, Alex 1991 births Living people Cricketers from the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames People from Kingston upon Thames Gloucestershire women cricketers Yorkshire women cricketers Staffordshire women cricketers North Representative XI cricketers Lincolnshire women cricketers Loughborough Lightning cricketers Northern Diamonds cricketers 21st-century English sportswomen