Cordelia Lauren Griffith (born 19 September 1995) is an English

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er who currently plays for

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and

London Spirit London Spirit are a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in North London. The team represents the historic counties of Middlesex, Essex and Northamptonshire in The Hundred, which took place for the first time during the 2021 English and Welsh ...

. She plays as a right-handed

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. She has previously played for

Essex Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...

and Sunrisers, as well as

Surrey Stars The Surrey Stars were an English women's Twenty20 cricket team based in South London that competed in the English women's Twenty20 competition, the Women's Cricket Super League. The Stars played their home matches at The Oval and Woodbridge Road ...

and

Yorkshire Diamonds Yorkshire Diamonds were an English women's Twenty20 cricket team based in Leeds, Yorkshire. They were formed in 2016 to compete in the inaugural season of the Women's Cricket Super League. They played their home matches at grounds across Yorkshir ...

in the

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, and

Manchester Originals Manchester Originals are a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in the city of Manchester. The team represents the historic county of Lancashire in the newly founded The Hundred competition, beginning in the 2021 season, and playing at Old ...

and

Oval Invincibles Oval Invincibles is a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in South London. The team represents the Historic counties of England, historic counties of Surrey and Kent in the newly founded The Hundred (cricket), The Hundred competition, which t ...

in The Hundred.

Early life

Griffith was born on 19 September 1995 in

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. Her father, Frank, played county cricket for

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. In 2018, Griffith completed a

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Domestic career

Griffith made her county debut in 2010, for

in a match against

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. She scored 5 as her team lost by 56 runs. She played two further games that season, but after this did not become a regular in Essex's side until 2013. Her first breakthrough season came in the

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, scoring 177 runs at 35.40, including two half-centuries. She also began captaining Essex in 2016, a post she held until the end of the 2018 season. The following season, despite only playing two

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matches, she scored 182 runs including her maiden county century, 113 * against

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in a play-off to help secure her side's promotion to Division 2. In

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she scored her second

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century, with 155 * against

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. Griffith was loaned to

for the

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, but was injured for the whole tournament and only managed to appear once for her new side, in the London Cup. She signed permanently for Middlesex ahead of the 2019 season and made an instant impression, ending the season as the side's leading run-scorer in the

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and second-highest run-scorer in the

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, as well as hitting her third List A century. She scored 187 runs for the side in the

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, including her

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high score of 73, made against

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. She scored 60 runs in the

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without being dismissed, playing two matches. Griffith also played for

in the

in 2016 and 2017, and for

in 2019. In

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, she played 5 matches and scored 35 runs. She did not play for the side in 2017. In 2019, for the Diamonds, she played three matches and scored 18 runs. In 2020, Griffith played for Sunrisers in the

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. She appeared in 4 matches, scoring 84 runs at an average of 21.00, with a best of 41 against

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. In December 2020, it was announced that Griffith was one of the 41 female cricketers that had signed a full-time domestic contract. In 2021, she was Sunrisers' leading run-scorer in the

, with 273 runs at an average of 39.00. She hit two half-centuries, including 91 made against

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. She was also her side's leading run-scorer in the

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, with 129 runs including one half-century. Griffith also played for

in The Hundred, scoring 20 runs in five innings. In 2022, she played eight matches for Sunrisers, across the

and the

, and was the side's second-highest run-scorer in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, with 178 runs including two half-centuries. She also played four matches for Manchester Originals in The Hundred. In 2023, she played 14 matches for Sunrisers, across the

and the

, and was the side's leading run-scorer in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, with 205 runs including two half-centuries. She also played six matches for

in The Hundred, scoring 64 runs. Griffith top scored for Sunrisers with 57 off 68 balls as they defeated South East Stars to win the

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final on 21 September 2024. Overall in 2024, she played 18 matches for Sunrisers, across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the

, scoring four half-centuries. In October 2024, she signed a professional contract for Essex Women ahead of the 2025 women's domestic cricket restructure. Griffith has also played for various

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age-group and academy sides, as well as appearing in the

2013 Super Fours The 2013 Super Fours was the tenth cricket Super Fours season. It took place in June and saw 4 teams compete in 50 over and Twenty20 matches. The four teams that competed in previous years were condensed into three, and Leicestershire and Rut ...

for Sapphires.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Griffith, Cordelia 1995 births Living people Cricketers from the London Borough of Islington People from Islington (district) Essex women cricketers Middlesex women cricketers Surrey Stars cricketers Yorkshire Diamonds cricketers Sunrisers women's cricketers Manchester Originals cricketers Alumni of Durham University Oval Invincibles cricketers London Spirit cricketers 21st-century English sportswomen