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| Full name | Kristen Maree Beams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1984-11-06)6 November 1984 (age 40) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Legbreak, googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 168) | 11 August 2015 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 128) | 26 August 2014 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 26 October 2017 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 39) | 3 September 2014 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 22 February 2017 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007/08–2019/20 | Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015/16–2019/20 | Melbourne Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Loughborough Lightning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kristen Maree Beams (born 6 November 1984) is an Australian formercricket player.[1] Beams played oneTest, thirtyOne Day Internationals and eighteenTwenty20 Internationals for theAustralia national women's cricket team between 2014 and 2017.[2]
Beams began her domestic cricket career playing forVictoria in theWomen's National Cricket League (WNCL). In the2013–14 WNCL season, she took 14 wickets at an average of 13.21 to lead the wicket-takers for the competition. During the season she also played tour matches against the visitingEnglish team.[3] In July 2014, she was added into theAustralian national team's squad for the first time, ahead ofa series against Pakistan.[3] During the series, she made both herOne Day International (ODI) andTwenty20 International (T20I) debuts, on 26 August and 3 September respectively.[4][5] She starred in the followingseries against the West Indies when, in just her third T20I, she took three wickets and had the best bowling figures for the Australian team.[6]
In June 2015, she was named as one of Australia's touring party for the2015 Women's Ashes in England, putting her in line for aTest cricket debut.[7][8] She played her first and only Test match against England atSt Lawrence Ground, starting on 11 August 2015. She scored 26 runs without being dismissed in her sole batting innings, but only bowled 11 overs for the match and did not take any wickets.[9]
Beams had a strong year in 2016, and was Australia's leading wicket-taker in ODIs for the year up to November 2016. InAustralia's tour of Sri Lanka, she took 13 wickets at a "stunning" average of 5.92, and took her career best figures in both ODIs (4/15) and T20Is (3/11).[10] In an ODI againstSouth Africa in November 2016, Beams bowled four overs before breaking her finger. She left the field for medical treatment, but with her finger still broken she returned to the field and bowled two more overs, taking the wicket ofLizelle Lee. After the match she was ruled out of the rest of the series due to the injury.[10]
Beams continued to play for Australia through 2017. She was Australia's leading wicket taker in the2017 Women's Cricket World Cup in England, but in the Australian summer she only played one match in the ODI portion of the2017–18 Ashes series. She was dropped from the team altogether for the sole Test match of the series when Australia opted to go with only one spin bowler (Amanda-Jade Wellington).[11]
In March 2018, following the conclusion of the2017–18 Women's National Cricket League season,Cricket Victoria named her the player of the season, awarding her the Sharon Tredrea Award,[12] but in April 2018 the national team chose not to renew her contract,[13] and she never returned to the national team.[14] On 1 December 2019, she announced her retirement from cricket.[14][15]
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