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Lisa Sthalekar

Lisa Sthalekar
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Personal information
Full name Lisa Carprini Sthalekar
Born (1979-08-13) 13 August 1979 (age 37)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off break
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 143) 15 February 2003 v England
Last Test 22 January 2011 v England
ODI debut (cap 93) 29 June 2001 v England
Last ODI 17 February 2013 v West Indies
T20I debut (cap 11) 2 September 2005 v England
Last T20I 24 January 2013 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years Team
1997–present New South Wales
Career statistics
Competition WTests WODI WT20I
Matches 8 125 54
Runs scored 416 2728 769
Batting average 32.00 30.65 21.36
100s/50s 1/2 2/16 0/1
Top score 120* 104* 52
Balls bowled 1745 5964 1196
Wickets 23 146 60
Bowling average 20.95 24.97 19.35
5 wickets in innings 1 1 0
10 wickets in match n/a n/a
Best bowling 5/30 5/35 4/18
Catches/stumpings 3/– 49/– 16/–
Source: CricInfo, 12 August 2015

Lisa Carprini Sthalekar (born 13 August 1979) is an Indian-born female former captain of Australia's international women's cricket team. In domestic cricket she represents New South Wales. She is a right-handed all rounder who bowls off spin, and was rated as the leading all rounder in the world when rankings were introduced. She is the first woman to score 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets in ODIs. She announced her retirement from international Cricket a day after Australian team won the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup.

Sthalekar made her debut in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) late in 1997–98 as a specialist bowler, but had little success, totalling 1/120 in her maiden campaign. She improved her performance over the next two seasons, taking 8 and 15 wickets respectively. In three years, she scored only 169 runs with a best score of 33. In 2000–01 Sthalekar took 11 wickets and scored 112 runs in the WNCL and was called into the Australian team for the first time. Playing as a bowler, she made her One Day International (ODI) debut against England and ended the tour of the British Isles with five wickets from as many matches.

In 2001–02, Sthalekar developed into a frontline batsman. She made her first half-century, compiling four in all for the season. She totalled 347 runs, more than her four previous seasons combined, and took 11 wickets as New South Wales won their sixth consecutive WNCL with a clean sweep. Sthalekar struggled with the ball in the next two international seasons, taking only eight wickets in 12 matches, but she did break through with the bat at international level, making three half-centuries in six matches. In early 2003, she made her Test debut against England, and made 120 not out, her maiden century, in her second match, although she took only three wickets in the two Tests.

In 2003–04 and the following season, Sthalekar took 14 wickets apiece and reached 250 runs in each season. In internationals, she returned to form with a ball and averaged more than a wicket per ODI. Sthalekar played in each match of Australia's unbeaten 2005 World Cup triumph in South Africa, taking seven wickets in all, and scoring 55 against India in the final.


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