Leonie Anne Coleman (born 5 February 1979 in Tamworth,

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) is a retired

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er. A

wicket-keeper In cricket, the wicket-keeper is the Cricket player, player on the fielding (cricket), fielding side who stands behind the wicket, ready to stop Delivery (cricket), deliveries that pass the batsman, and take a Caught, catch, Stumped, stump the ...

, Coleman played in one Test match and 24

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for the Australian national women's cricket team. Coleman is the 151st woman to play Test cricket for Australia. After making her international debut against

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in 2004, she suffered an injury which kept her out of the international side for several years. She earned a recall to the national side just before the 2007–08 Ashes series, when first choice wicket-keeper

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(then Jodie Purves) broke her thumb in a club match. However, Coleman retired from international cricket following the

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, after Fields was preferred as wicket-keeper throughout the tournament. Coleman is the 99th woman to play

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cricket for Australia. Coleman played domestic cricket for the

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from 1996 to 2009, then played for the

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from 2009 to 2011.

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