Carole Ann Hodges (

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Carole Cornthwaite; born 1 September 1959) is an English former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm

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bowler. She appeared in 18

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and 47

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for

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between 1982 and 1993. She was part of the England team that won the 1993 World Cup, and took the first ever WODI hattrick in England's first game of the tournament, against

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. Her final WODI appearance was in the

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of the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup. She played domestic cricket for Lancashire and Cheshire.

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* 1959 births Living people Sportspeople from Blackpool English women cricketers England women One Day International cricketers England women Test cricketers Lancashire and Cheshire women cricketers Women's One Day International cricket hat-trick takers Cricketers from Lancashire {{England-cricket-bio-1950s-stub