Bridget Emma Patterson (born 12 April 1994) is an Australian

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er who plays as a right-handed

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for the South Australian Scorpions in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Adelaide Strikers in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). A daughter of lavender farmers at

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on Kangaroo Island, Patterson played childhood cricket against boys, and credits that experience for her rise in women's cricket. In the final of the 2015–16 WNCL, Patterson scored 76 to anchor the Scorpions' innings of 7 for 264 against the

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. The Scorpions won the match by 54 runs, thus ending New South Wales' 10-year grip on the WNCL trophy. Patterson has been a member of the Adelaide Strikers squad since the inaugural WBBL season. Her run out of Molly Strano of the Melbourne Renegades during the Strikers' opening match of its WBBL02 campaign has been described as one of the highlights of that tournament. In September 2018, Patterson achieved her maiden century for South Australia, scoring a player-of-the-match-winning 109 off 131 balls in the Scorpions' opening round 2018–19 WNCL victory over Western Australia.

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