Full name Emma Alice Beamish Role Batsman Batting style Right-handed | Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast National side Ireland (2003–2012) | |
Born 29 November 1982 (age 34) ( 1982-11-29 ) Merrion, Dublin, Ireland ODI debut 25 July 2003 v Netherlands women Last ODI 11 August 2010 v Netherlands women | ||
Emma Alice Beamish (born 29 November 1982) is a former Irish international cricketer who represented the Irish national team between 2003 and 2012.
Beamish was born in Dublin. She made her international debut at the 2003 IWCC Trophy, playing One Day International (ODI) matches against the Netherlands and Scotland. Against Scotland, she scored 40 runs from fifth in the batting order, which was to be the highest score of her career. At the 2005 World Cup in South Africa, Beamish played in five of her team's six matches, but had little success. In her last two matches of the tournament, against Australia and New Zealand, she was used as an opening batsman, partnering with Jillian Smythe. After the World Cup, Beamish made regular appearances in Ireland's line-up for several more seasons, both in ODIs and in Twenty20 Internationals. Her last matches for Ireland came in August 2012, in a European tournament that was part of the qualification process for the 2014 World Twenty20.