Phoebe Elisabeth Turner (born 8 August 2003) is an English

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er who most recently played for

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and

Northern Diamonds Northern Diamonds were a women's cricket team that represented the traditional areas of the Northumbria (modern), North East and Yorkshire, one of eight regional hubs in English domestic women's cricket. They primarily played their home matches ...

. She plays primarily as a right-handed

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Domestic career

Turner first played for

in 2020, in friendlies arranged when the county season was cancelled due to the

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. She made her full county debut for Yorkshire in the

2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup The 2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2021 Vitality Women's County T20, was the 12th cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament, taking place in April and May, with 36 teams taking part: 34 county teams plus Scotland ...

, against

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. She played 7 matches for the side in the

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, scoring 95 runs with a top score of 26. Turner was named in the

Academy squad for the 2021 season. She was promoted to the first team squad ahead of the 2022 season. She made her debut for the side on 14 May 2022, against

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in the

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. She went on to play eight matches overall for Northern Diamonds in the 2022 season. At the end of the 2022 season, it was announced that Turner had signed her first professional contract with Northern Diamonds. In 2023, she played 11 matches for Northern Diamonds, all in the

Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy The Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy was an English and Welsh women's cricket domestic competition, named after former England captain Rachael Heyhoe Flint, who died in 2017. The Trophy was held from 2020 to 2024, and was the premier women's 50-ov ...

, and took five wickets. In 2024, she was the leading wicket-taker across the entire

, taking 23 wickets.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Phoebe 2003 births Living people Cricketers from Rotherham Yorkshire women cricketers Northern Diamonds cricketers