Emma Liddell

Emma Liddell
Personal information
Born (1980-03-30) 30 March 1980 (age 44)
Sydney, New South Wales
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLeft-arm medium
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 141)15 February 2003 v England
Last Test24 August 2005 v England
ODI debut (cap 95)20 February 2002 v New Zealand
Last ODI30 August 2005 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1998/99 - 2005/06New South Wales Breakers
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI LA WNCL
Matches 3 33 113 80
Runs scored 24 3 86 83
Batting average 12.00 1.50 7.16 8.30
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 24 2* 35* 35*
Balls bowled 657 1595 5668 4073
Wickets 12 32 132 100
Bowling average 13.00 29.40 23.11 21.10
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 4/57 4/17 4/17 4/33
Catches/stumpings 0/- 1/– 16/– 15/–
Source: CricInfo, 24 June 2014

Emma Liddell (born 30 March 1980) is an Australian former cricketer.[1]

Liddell played 80 Women's National Cricket League matches for the New South Wales Breakers.[2] She also played three Tests and 33 One Day Internationals for the Australia national women's cricket team.[1] She was the 141st woman to play Test cricket for Australia,[3] and the 95th woman to play One Day International cricket for Australia.[4]

Liddell attended Grantham High School, in Sydney's western suburbs. She took up playing cricket at the age of 14, following her brother into the sport.[5] In February 1996, aged 15, she turned out for a representative Metropolitan West side at the annual New South Wales Combined High Schools Cricket Championships, held in Penrith. On the first day of the tournament, in a match against Metropolitan East, she dismissed the entire opposing side without conceding a run, finishing with figures of 10/0 from 7.4 overs.[6][7] All her victims were clean-bowled,[8] with the team as a whole scoring only seven runs.[5] The feat is one of the rarest in cricket – only 24 instances have been recorded across all levels of the game, with Liddell the only woman known to have completed it.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Emma Liddell - Australia". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Emma Liddell - CricketArchive". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Emma Liddell (Player #165)". southernstars.org.au. Cricket Australia. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Women's One-Day Internationals - Australia". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  5. ^ a b Catriona Dixon (13 November 1998). "Bowling prodigy now in the big league" – The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved from Factiva, 4 August 2014.
  6. ^ — (26 February 1996). "Australian Sports News" (excerpted from The Daily Telegraph) – Reuters Limited. Retrieved from Factiva, 4 August 2014.
  7. ^ Tim Prentice (9 October 1996). "Emma aims to bowl fans over" – The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved from Factiva, 4 August 2014.
  8. ^ — (27 February 1996). "Sport Briefing" – The Age. Retrieved from Factiva, 4 August 2014.
  9. ^ Records / All cricket records (including minor cricket) / Bowling records / Best figures in an innings – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 August 2014.