Anya Shrubsole
Anya Shrubsole MBE (born 7 December 1991) is an English international cricketer and world cup winner. She has been a member of the England women's cricket team since 2008. A right-arm medium pace bowler and lower-order right-handed batsman, she plays her domestic cricket for Berkshire Women and for Western Storm in the Women's Cricket Super League.[1] In 2018, she became the first woman to appear on the cover of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[2]
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Born | Bath, Somerset, England | 7 December 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Hoof | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | L Shrubsole (sister) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 151) | 11 October 2013 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 18 July 2019 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 112) | 14 August 2008 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 14 December 2019 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 22) | 23 August 2008 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 1 March 2020 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004–2018 | Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016– | Western Storm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016– | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019– | Berkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 1 March 2020 |
Early life
Anya is the daughter of Ian Shrubsole, who made two Minor Counties appearances for Wiltshire in the early 1990s,[3] Anya Shrubsole was born in Bath, Somerset,[4] and attended Hayesfield Girls' School.[5]
County career
Although she played youth cricket for Somerset Women, appearing in both the Under-15 and Under-17 Women's County Championships, Shrubsole made her first-team début for the county at the age of 12.[6] Facing Berkshire in the Women's County Championship, Shrubsole claimed two wickets in her six overs after opening the bowling alongside Steph Davies, helping Somerset to a four-wicket victory.[7] She scored her first runs in women's List A cricket in the following match, remaining ten not out against Staffordshire.[8] Though she only played three of Somerset's five fixtures in the 2004 competition, Shrubsole finished with the county's second-best bowling average, her five wickets in the competition coming at an average of 11.20.[9]
In 2005 Shrubsole made her first appearance in the Super Fours – a competition in which the England selectors place the 48 leading players into four teams – playing one Twenty20 for the Braves. Shrubsole remained 16 not out at the close of the Braves innings, and claimed two wickets in the following innings as the V Team won by four wickets.[10] Her performances in the County Championship brought her fewer wickets than in the previous season, the young bowler claiming two in the competition.[11] In contrast, she improved significantly on her highest batting total, posting a score of 41 not out during a big victory over Surrey in July.[12] The following season saw Shrubsole begin the season playing as a specialist batsman. She did not bowl until her sixth match[note 1] of the season. She continued to bowl infrequently through the season and, despite playing all six County Championship matches for Somerset, only bowled 131 balls, 133 fewer than fellow medium-pace bowler Hannah Lloyd.[13] Her batting during the season saw her finish as Somerset's second-highest run-scorer with 127 runs.[14] Her performances in the Super Fours were less impressive: in three 50-over and two 20-over contests, she scored seven runs and did not claim a wicket.[15][16][17][18] After the close of the English women's domestic season, Shrubsole appeared for the MCC's women's side against the touring Indians in a Twenty20.[19]
International career
Shrubsole's first match of the 2007 season brought her best career bowling return in women's List A cricket. With Somerset defending 206, she opened the bowling for her county, claiming seven wickets – including those of Surrey's top six batsman.[20] After her strong start to the season, Shrubsole only managed one more wicket in the Championship, in Somerset's second match, against Berkshire.[21] Her eight wickets were still enough for her to finish second among Somerset wicket-takers in 2007.[22] The Rubies won all six matches in the Super Fours, during which Shrubsole claimed two wickets, though her bowling was expensive: her economy of 4.21 was the worst on the team.[23] Despite this, Shrubsole opened the bowling for an ECB Women's Invitation XI in a Twenty20 match against England.[24]
Shrubsole played two matches for the England Development Squad against the touring South Africans in early August 2007, claiming a wicket in each match to help the English side win them both.[25][26] She then travelled with the Development Squad to compete in the 2007 Women's European Championship, playing all three of England's matches as they remained undefeated to win the tournament.[6][27]
Shrubsole made her ODI debut against South Africa on 14 August 2008. Opening the bowling, she took the wicket of Marcia Letsoalo as England recorded a comfortable victory.[28] Nine days later, Shrubsole took three wickets on her Twenty20 International debut against South Africa, and was subsequently named woman of the match.[29]
She won the Most Promising Young Women's Cricketer Award at the end of the 2008 season,[30] and was called up to England's squad for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup.[31] She took a career-best 5 for 11 in the first T20 international against New Zealand in February 2012.[32]
She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014.[33]
Shrubsole was a member of the winning women's team at the 2017 World Cup held in England, and was voted player of the game in the final at Lord's with a match-winning 6/46.[34][35][36] These are also the best ever bowling figures by any woman cricketer in a Women's Cricket World Cup final.[37] Her contribution to England's success was recognised by the award of an MBE in the Queen's 2018 New Year Honours list.[38] In April 2018 she was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for her part in the 2017 World Cup victory.[39]
In October 2018, she was named in England's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[40][41] In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for 2019.[42][43] In June 2019, the ECB named her in England's squad for their opening match against Australia to contest the Women's Ashes.[44][45] In January 2020, she was named in England's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[46] In England's match against Pakistan, Shrubsole took her 100th wicket in WT20I cricket.[47]
On 18 June 2020, Shrubsole was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training ahead of international women's fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic.[48][49]
Personal life
Shrubsole's nickname is "Hoof". After England's World Cup semi-final victory against South Africa in 2017, her team mate Jenny Gunn explained to ESPNcricinfo that "We call her 'Hoof' because she sometimes walks like a show pony with her feet ..."[50]
Notes
- Only counting matches in the County Championship and Super Fours, not club matches.
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External links
- Anya Shrubsole at ESPNcricinfo
- Anya Shrubsole at CricketArchive
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