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| Full name | Amy Ella Satterthwaite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1986-10-07)7 October 1986 (age 39) Christchurch, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armmedium; right-armoff break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Lea Tahuhu (wife) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 106) | 21 July 2007 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 26 March 2022 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 18) | 19 July 2007 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 9 September 2021 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003/04–2022/23 | Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014/15–2015/16 | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015/16–2016/17 | Hobart Hurricanes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Lancashire Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017/18–2018/19 | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018/19 | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020/21 | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Manchester Originals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amy Ella SatterthwaiteMNZM (born 7 October 1986) is a New Zealand formercricketer who played as anall-rounder,batting left-handed andbowling either right-armmedium oroff break. She appeared in 145One Day Internationals and 111Twenty20 Internationals forNew Zealand between 2007 and 2022. She played domestic cricket forCanterbury,Tasmania,Hobart Hurricanes,Melbourne Renegades,Lancashire Thunder,Lancashire andManchester Originals.[1]
On 26 February 2017,against Australia, she became the first player in WODIs and second overall afterKumar Sangakkara in ODIs to score four consecutive hundreds.[2] In December 2017, she won the inaugural ICC Women's ODI Player of the Year award.[3][4] In September 2018,Suzie Bates stepped down as captain of New Zealand and was replaced by Satterthwaite.[5]
In July 2020, Satterthwaite was appointed as the vice-captain of the New Zealand women's cricket team,[6] withSophie Devine appointed as the team's captain on a full-time basis.[7] In September 2020, in the first match of New Zealand'sseries against Australia, Satterthwaite played in her 100th WT20I.[8] In May 2022, Satterthwaite announced her retirement from international cricket, and from all cricket.[9][10]

Satterthwaite made her debut forCanterbury Magicians at limited overs level in 2003.[11]
In 2007, Satterthwaite becamecaptain of the Magicians, initially on a temporary basis due to regular captainHaidee Tiffen having a virus.[12]
In 2016, Satterthwaite was appointed captain of theLancashire Thunder in theWomen's Cricket Super League. She played in five matches for the Thunder in July and August 2016.[13][14]
During the 2014–15 season, Satterthwaite played nine matches for theTasmanian Roar; four times in theAustralian Women's Twenty20 Cup and five in theWomen's National Cricket League.[14][11]
Satterthwaite signed for theHobart Hurricanes ahead of the2015–16 Women's Big Bash League season. In 2016, she resigned for the Hurricanes for the2016–17 Women's Big Bash League season.[15][16] In November 2018, she was named in theMelbourne Renegades' squad for the2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.[17][18]
In April 2022, she was bought by theManchester Originals for the2022 season ofThe Hundred in England.[19] She announced her retirement from all forms of cricket in February 2023.[10] In her final season with Canterbury, she captained them to victory in the2022–23 Super Smash.[20]
Satterthwaite made her international debut forNew Zealand againstAustralia on 19 July 2007 in aTwenty20 International. She made herOne Day International debut two days later, also against Australia.[21]
In August 2007, she took sixwickets for seventeenruns againstEngland; this remained the onlysix-wicket haul in a women's T20I match until 20 August 2018 whenBotsogo Mpedi ofBotswana took 6/8.[22]
Starting during thePakistan's tour to New Zealand in November 2016, and then into the Australian women's team tour of New Zealand in 2017, Satterthwaite became the first woman to score acentury in four consecutiveinnings in ODIs.[2]
Satterthwaite has captained New Zealand twice in One Day International cricket, the first againstIreland in 2010 and the second againstPakistan in 2016.[23][24][25]
During the2017 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, she equalled the record ofLydia Greenway for taking the most catches in a singleWomen's Cricket World Cup series(8)[26]
In August 2018, she was awarded a central contract byNew Zealand Cricket, following the tours ofIreland andEngland in the previous months.[27][28] In October 2018, she was named as captain of New Zealand's squad for the2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[29][30] In February 2022, she was named as the vice-captain of New Zealand's team for the2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[31]
In the2023 King's Birthday and Coronation Honours, Satterthwaite was appointed aMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cricket.[32]
| Runs | Match | Opponents | City | Venue | Year |
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| 109 | 47 | Sydney, Australia | North Sydney Oval | 2012[33] | |
| 103 | 54 | Mumbai, India | Brabourne Stadium | 2013[34] | |
| 137* | 89 | Lincoln, New Zealand | Bert Sutcliffe Oval | 2016[35] | |
| 115* | 90 | Lincoln, New Zealand | Bert Sutcliffe Oval | 2016[36] | |
| 123 | 92 | Nelson, New Zealand | Saxton Oval | 2016[37] | |
| 102* | 93 | Auckland, New Zealand | Eden Park Outer Oval | 2017[38] | |
| 119* | 125 | Dunedin, New Zealand | University Oval | 2021[39] |
Satterthwaite was born inChristchurch and grew up inCulverden in northCanterbury.[21] Her father, Michael Satterthwaite, represented Canterbury Country in cricket and is a former chairman of Canterbury Cricket.[40][41] She states that she grew up with cricket and "had a love for the game from when [she] could walk!"[40] Satterthwaite was for many years office manager for a veterinary practice,[42] and since 2015 has been employed by Canterbury Cricket.[43]
In March 2017, she married fellow international cricketerLea Tahuhu.[44] In August 2019, Satterthwaite announced that she and Tahuhu were expecting their first child,[45] and was taking a break from cricket.[46] She missed the2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia, but hoped to be in the team's squad for the2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[47]
In 2020 Satterthwaite gave birth to a daughter.[48]In 2024, the couple became parents again, to a baby boy.[49]