Batting style Right-hand bat Role Cricket Bowler Name Belinda Clark | National side Australia Bowling style Right-arm offbreak | |
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Born 10 September 1970 (age 53) ( 1970-09-10 ) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Test debut (cap 119) 26 January 1991 v India women Last Test 24 August 2005 v England women ODI debut (cap 66) 17 January 1991 v New Zealand women | ||
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Belinda Jane Clark (born 10 September 1970) is a former female Australian cricketer, who played international cricket from 1991 to 2005. She was the first and only person to score a double century in a women's One Day International. In 1997 against Denmark, she was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
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Clark captained the Australian women's cricket team from 1994 to her retirement in 2005. In 1998 Clark was named Wisden Australia Cricketer of the Year., and has captained the Australian women's Test side since 1994. She was also chief executive of Women's Cricket Australia. Clark played one Women's Twenty20 International and 89 Women's National Cricket League matches.
On 16 September 2005, Clark announced her retirement after playing in 118 one-day internationals and 15 Tests. She holds Australia's record for Test and ODI runs and also for ODI appearances.
After her retirement, Clark took on a new role as manager of the Australian Cricket Academy in Brisbane.
She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day honours list in January 2000, "for service to cricket, particularly through the Australian Women's Cricket Team, and to the promotion and development of the game for women and girls."
Clark was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2011.
Clark became the first female player inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame during the 2014 Allan Border Medal ceremony.
As of 2014 Clark is manager of the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane. There she has overseen not only the development of the Southern Stars but an increasing level of interaction, communication and shared training among male and female cricketers at the top level.