Sterre Laurien Kalis (born 30 August 1999) is a Dutch

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er who plays for the national cricket team as a right-handed batter. At domestic level, she plays for the English teams

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and North East Warriors, and has previously played for

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and

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. She has also taken the field for other domestic teams in the Netherlands and Australia.

Career

Kalis played for the Netherlands in the

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in November 2015. In June 2018, Kalis was named in the Netherlands squad for the

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tournament. She made her

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(WT20I) against

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in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018. She was the leading run-scorer for the tournament, with 231 runs in five matches. Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named as the rising star of the Netherlands' squad by the

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(ICC). In July 2018, she was named in the ICC Women's Global Development Squad. In November 2018, she was again named in the Women's Global Development Squad, to play fixtures against

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(WBBL) clubs. In May 2019, she was named in Netherlands' squad for the

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tournament in Spain. On 27 June 2019, in the match against

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, Kalis scored her first century in WT20Is, and equalled the record for the highest score in a WT20I, with 126

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. She was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 158 runs in four matches. In August 2019, she was named in the Dutch squad for the

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tournament in Scotland. She was the leading run-scorer for the Netherlands in the tournament, with 117 runs in five matches. In November 2020, Kalis was nominated for the ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award. In October 2021, she was named in the Dutch team for the

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tournament in Zimbabwe. In April 2022, she was bought by the

for the 2022 season of The Hundred in England. Later that month, she was announced in the North East Warriors squad for the

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. In May 2022, Kalis played seven matches for the tournament-winning Tornadoes team at the

2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 The 2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 was a women's Twenty20 cricket competition which took place from 4 to 15 May 2022 in Dubai. The tournament, sanctioned by the ICC, was privately-run by FairBreak Global, a company that aims to promote gender ...

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, United Arab Emirates. During the Invitational, she scored a total of 225 runs, the fifth-highest of any player, including two fifties, and two other scores in excess of 40. She was also awarded

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for top scoring with 32 in her team's first match, against the Sapphires team.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalis, Sterre 1999 births Living people Dutch women cricketers Netherlands women Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers from The Hague Essex women cricketers Northern Diamonds cricketers Northern Superchargers cricketers Expatriate cricketers in England North East Warriors cricketers Birmingham Phoenix cricketers