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| Full name | Sarah Jane Taylor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1989-05-20)20 May 1989 (age 36) Whitechapel, London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper-batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 146) | 8 August 2006 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 18 July 2019 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 102) | 14 August 2006 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 7 July 2019 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 17) | 5 August 2006 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 21 June 2019 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2021 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010/11–2011/12 | Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014/15–2015/16 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015/16 | Adelaide Strikers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Lancashire Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Surrey Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Northern Diamonds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Welsh Fire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sarah Jane Taylor (born 20 May 1989) is an English formercricketer and cricket coach. She appeared in 10Test matches, 126One Day Internationals and 90Twenty20 Internationals forEngland between 2006 and her retirement from international cricket in 2019 due to ananxiety issue.[1] Taylor is the fastest cricketer, male or female, to earn their first cap in all three formats of international cricket, doing so in the space of nine daysagainst India in 2006.[2]
She has played domestic cricket forSussex,Lancashire Thunder,Surrey Stars,Northern Diamonds,Welsh Fire,Wellington,South Australia andAdelaide Strikers. She is a wicket-keeper-batter known for her free-flowing stroke play, opening the batting in limited-overs matches and batting in the middle order in Test cricket.
The inclusion of Taylor and her future England team-mateHolly Colvin in theBrighton College boys' team caused some controversy within theMCC.[3]
On 30 June 2009, she scored 120 at a run-a-ball in the 2nd One Day International at Chelmsford, overtakingEnid Bakewell's 118 in 1973 as the highest individual score against Australia by an Englishwoman. On 8 August 2008, she broke the record for the highest stand in women's One Day International cricket with a first wicket partnership of 268 withCaroline Atkins atLord's forEngland againstSouth Africa. She went on to score 129.[4]
On 1 September 2008 she became the youngest woman cricketer to score 1000 runs in One Day Internationals when she scored 75 not out atTaunton in England's 10 wicket win againstIndia. She reached 1000 runs when she had scored 16.[5]
At the start of the cricket season she was the first woman player ever to play in theDarton first XI. She has also been joined at Darton byKatherine Brunt, England bowler.
Sheopened the batting for England in their victories in the50 over World Cup in Australia and theWorld T20 in 2009. However, she pulled out of the England tours of 2010 and 2011, including the Ashes match in Australia.
She won theICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year award in 2012 and 2013,[6][7] and was the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014.[8]
She was named as theICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year in 2014.[6]
In 2015, she became the first woman to be inducted in the Legends Lane at theCounty Cricket Ground inHove.[9][6]
Also in 2015 she became the first woman to play men'sgrade cricket in Australia, when she appeared as wicketkeeper forNorthern Districts againstPort Adelaide atSalisbury Oval in South Australia's premier men's competition.[10]
In May 2016, Taylor announced she had been suffering from anxiety which she said had been adversely affecting her cricket performance. She announced a break from playing to 'prolong her career'.[11][12] She resumed playing in April 2017 and in June she was selected for the2017 Women's Cricket World Cup.[13] In the tournament, she andTammy Beaumont set the record for the highest 2nd-wicket partnership inWomen's Cricket World Cup history (275) in a 68-run victory over South Africa.[14] Taylor's innings of 147 was her career best in ODIs.[15] Taylor was a member of the winning women's team at the2017 Women's Cricket World Cup held in England.[16][17][18]
In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year.[19] In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by theEngland and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for 2019.[20][21] In June 2019, the ECB named her in England's squad for their opening matchagainst Australia to contest theWomen's Ashes.[22][23]
In July 2019, ahead of theWomen's Twenty20 International matches of theWomen's Ashes, Taylor withdrew herself from England's squad, to take time away from the game, due to mental health issues.[24][25] In September 2019, Taylor retired from international cricket due to her health issues.[26]
In an interview withESPNcricinfo in January 2021, Taylor hinted at the prospect of coming out of retirement.[27] She said that "I've got my cricket bag at school, ready to have a net,"[27] but also "[wasn't] saying yes, [wasn't] saying no."[27]
On 15 March 2021, Taylor made history as the first female specialist coach for a seniorEnglish men's county team after her appointment aswicketkeepingcoach forSussex.[28][29][30][31][32] In April 2021, Taylor's return to playing was announced, as she was signed byWelsh Fire for the2021 season of The Hundred.[33] She also appeared forSussex in the2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup, and played forNorthern Diamonds as an injury replacement player.[34] In October 2021 Taylor was appointed as assistant coach atTeam Abu Dhabi, working withPaul Farbrace andLance Klusener.[35]
In February 2022 it was announced that she had been appointed as assistant coach atManchester Originals for the upcoming season ofThe Hundred, working with both the men's and the women's sides, and had not yet ruled out returning to playing.[35]
Taylor was appointed as theEngland Lions wicket-keeping coach for their tour of South Africa in November 2024.[36]
In November 2020, Taylor was nominated for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade.[37][38]
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