Clea Smith

Clea Rosemary Smith (born 6 January 1979) is an Australian former cricket player.[1] She is the 147th woman to play Test cricket for Australia,[2] and the 90th woman to have played One Day International cricket for Australia.[3]

Clea Smith

Personal information
Full name	Clea Rosemary Smith
Born	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm Medium pace
International information
National side	Australia
Only Test (cap 147)	9 August 2005 v England
ODI debut (cap 90)	29 January 2000 v England
Last ODI	7 July 2011 v England
T20I debut (cap 18)	19 July 2007 v New Zealand
Last T20I	27 June 2011 v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1998/99–2011/12	Victorian Spirit
Career statistics
Competition WTest WODI WT20I LA Matches 1 48 13 165 Runs scored 46 85 5 598 Batting average 23.00 14.16 1.25 15.53 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 42 27* 1* 39* Balls bowled 72 2198 300 8,204 Wickets 1 45 14 173 Bowling average 25.00 25.68 22.21 24.39 5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 2 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 1/25 4/32 3/23 5/10 Catches/stumpings 0/- 9/– 1/– 40/–
Source: CricInfo, 18 June 2014

Smith played 165 domestic limited overs matches for the Victorian Spirit including 117 Women's National Cricket League games.[4] She also played 37 Women's Twenty20 cricket matches.[4]

Clea Smith played one test, 48 One Day Internationals and 13 Twenty20 Internationals for the Australia national women's cricket team.[1] She retired in 2012 after a 14-year playing career.[5]

She holds the record for the highest ever test score made by a female cricketer in Women's cricket history batting at number 11 of 42 runs.[6]

References

1. "Australia / Players / Clea Smith". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
2. "Clea Smith (Player #160)". southernstars.org.au. Cricket Australia. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
3. "Women's One-Day Internationals – Australia". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
4. "Clea Smith – CricketArchive". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
5. "Clea Smith retires". Cricket Australia. 16 May 2012. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
6. "Records | Women's Test matches | Batting records | Most runs in an innings (by batting position) | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 May 2017.