Alexia Laurette Walker (born 26 November 1982) is an English former

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

er who played as an

all-rounder An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are consi ...

. She was a right-handed batter and right-arm

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bowler. She appeared in three

One Day Internationals A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World Cup ...

for

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in August 2001, making her debut against

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. In total she took one wicket and scored 14 runs. She played domestic cricket for Sussex from 1998 to 2015. In June 2009 Walker was appointed as the cricket director at

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, a co-educational private school in Brighton. She is the first woman cricket director at an English private school. Previously she was cricket performance manager at Loughborough University. In January 2010 Walker became one of only three women to pass the ECB Level 4 Coaching Certificate and was believed to be the youngest candidate of either sex to gain the award.

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* * 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from East Sussex England women One Day International cricketers Sussex women cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1980s-stub