Margaretha Everdine Caroline de Fouw (born 12 May 1966) is a Dutch former

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er who played as a right-arm

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bowler. She appeared in one Test match, 35

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and 6

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for

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between 1991 and 2018. Her tally of 26 ODI wickets has only been surpassed by

Carolien Salomons Carolien Aimee Salomons (born 20 July 1974) is a former Dutch international cricketer whose career for the national women's side spanned from 1995 to 2011. She played for the Netherlands at both the 1997 Events January * January 1 – ...

and

Sandra Kottman Sandra Kottman (born 20 May 1967) is a Dutch former cricketer. She played 32 Women's One Day International (WODI) matches for the Netherlands women's national cricket team. She was part of the Netherlands squad for the 1997 and 2000 Women's Cric ...

for the Netherlands. Born in

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, de Fouw played club cricket for KZKC (Klein Zwitserland de Krekels Combinatie). Her Dutch national team debut came in the 1986 Women's Quadrangular Tournament in Ireland, where she played against

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.Women's miscellaneous matches played by Caroline de Fouw
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 June 2015. De Fouw made her ODI debut aged 25, at the 1991

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, which was being held in the Netherlands for the first time. Aged 42 at the time of her last ODI, de Fouw is the oldest woman to appear in an ODI for the Netherlands, and her ODI career span of almost 17 years has only been surpassed by fourteen women worldwide. In April 2008, de Fouw served as a coach for the ICC European Women's Academy in

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. She later gained a Level-3 coaching diploma from the

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(ECB), and has worked in various development roles with the

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(KNCB), the governing body for Dutch cricket. In June 2018, she returned to international cricket for the first time since 2008, playing for the Netherlands at the

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tournament. She was at the time the oldest woman from any country to appear in a Twenty20 International.Records / Women's Twenty20 Internationals / Individual records (captains, players, umpires) / Oldest players
– ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2015.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:de Fouw, Caroline 1966 births Living people de Fouw Dutch women cricketers Netherlands women One Day International cricketers Netherlands women Test cricketers Netherlands women Twenty20 International cricketers Dutch cricket coaches 20th-century Dutch sportswomen