Selina Solman (born 8 February 1994) is a Vanuatuan
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er and the current captain of the
Vanuatu women's cricket team.
She was the first female cricketer from Vanuatu to play
grade cricket in Australia. She also played for the East Asia-Pacific team in the Australian Country Cricket Championships, with the
International Cricket Council (ICC) saying she was a "crucial player for the team".
In April 2019, she was named as the captain of Vanuatu's squad for the
2019 ICC Women's Qualifier EAP
The 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier EAP was a cricket tournament that was held in Vanuatu in May 2019. The matches in the tournament were played as Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is), with the top team progressing to both the 2019 ICC Women's W ...
tournament, also held in Vanuatu. She made her
Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Vanuatu against
Papua New Guinea in the Women's Qualifier EAP tournament on 6 May 2019.
As well as cricket, Solman has also represented Vanuatu in
netball at the
2017 Pacific Mini Games
The 2017 Pacific Mini Games were held in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in December 2017. It was the tenth edition of the Pacific Mini Games, and the second to be hosted in Vanuatu (after the 1993 games).
Host selection
Vanuatu was awarded the right to h ...
. She is one of the few individuals to become a dual national sport representative for the nation.
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1994 births
Living people
Vanuatuan women cricketers
Vanuatu women Twenty20 International cricketers
Netball players
Place of birth missing (living people)