Clare Taylor reaches century of wickets as England beat India
Clare Taylor MBE, England women's most experienced bowler and World Cup winner, has today become the first English woman to take 100 wickets in her test and one-day international career
Andrea Wiggins
10-Jul-2002
Clare Taylor MBE, England women's most experienced bowler and World Cup
winner, has today become the first English woman to take 100 wickets in her
test and one-day international career.
She joins only one other female cricketers to achieve the feat, the
Australian pace bowler Cathryn Fitzpatrick.
Clare dismissed the India captain Anjum Chopra for just six runs as England
beat India by six wickets at the Grainville Ground, Jersey, having
restricted India to just 59 runs, their lowest total against England.
Clare, who was awarded the MBE in 2000 for her services to women's sport,
made her England debut in 1988 and was a member of the World Cup winning
England team in 1993. She was made a Sport England Ambassador in 1999 and
promotes sport and a healthy lifestyle to young people in Yorkshire.
Clare is a double England international, playing for England in the 1995
Women's Football World Cup, and at domestic level for Liverpool F.C. and has
helped her county Yorkshire win the Frizzell County Championship ten times
in the past eleven years.
Speaking from Jersey, where England are currently playing the first leg of
the Women's One-Day international series against New Zealand and India,
Clare said "I've had a fantastic career with England over the past ten
years, and I'm looking forward to taking more wickets this summer".
Debutant Isa Guha took two wickets opening the bowling for England on her
debut, and fellow teenager Laura Harper was Player of the Match taking 4-11.
India face World Champions New Zealand in tomorrow's match, with England
playing New Zealand on Friday to complete the first leg of the one-day
international series in Jersey. The teams then move on to Durham for the
final three games and the final on Saturday 20th July at Chester-le-Street.