Frederique CJ Overdijk (born 12 April 2000) is a Dutch
cricket
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er.
She is best known for her right-arm medium bowling.
Career
In August 2019, Overdijk was named in the Dutch
Women's Twenty20 International
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(WT20I) squad for the
2019 Netherlands Women's Quadrangular Series. Overdijk made her WT20I debut for
the Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
, against
Ireland
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, on 8 August 2019. Later the same month, Overdijk was named in the Dutch squad for the
2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier
The 2019 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier was an international women's cricket tournament that was held in August and September 2019 in Scotland. It was the fourth edition of the Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier and was the qualification tour ...
tournament in Scotland.
In August 2021, Overdijk was named in the Dutch squad for the
2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier
The 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier was a cricket tournament that was played in August 2021 in Spain. The matches were played as Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is), with the top team progressing to the 2022 ICC Women's T20 ...
. In the Netherlands' second match of the tournament, against
France
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, Overdijk became the first bowler, male or female, to
take seven wickets in a T20I match, taking seven wickets for three runs in the four overs she bowled. Her record breaking figures were equalled in October 2022, by Alison Stocks for
Argentina
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against
Peru
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.
In October 2021, she was named in the Dutch team for the
2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier
The 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier was an international women's cricket tournament that was held in Zimbabwe in November and December 2021. The tournament was the final part of the qualification process for the 2022 Women's Cricket Worl ...
tournament in Zimbabwe.
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2000 births
Living people
Dutch women cricketers
Netherlands women One Day International cricketers
Netherlands women Twenty20 International cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people)