Annie-Rose Maloney (born 4 March 1989) is an Australian

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er. A right-arm

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bowler and occasional right-handed batter, she played a single

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(ODI) for the Australia women's national team against

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in July 2011.

Cricket career

Maloney played club cricket for Essendon-Maribyrnong, and in November 2007 she was selected to play for Victoria's state team for the first time in a

Women's National Cricket League The Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) is the national domestic 50-over competition for women's cricket in Australia. Featuring seven teams—one from every state, plus the Australian Capital Territory—each season's winner is awarded the ...

match. Representing Victoria between 2007/08 and 2011/12, Maloney played 15

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matches in the

(WNCL) and 19 T20 matches in the

Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup The Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup (WT20) was the premier domestic women's Twenty20, Twenty20 cricket competition in Australia. Beginning in 2007 as a series of exhibition matches, the first official tournament took place during the summer of 2 ...

(WT20). In February 2011, Maloney was included in Australia's squad for the final three matches of the 2010–11 Rose Bowl series. These matches were scheduled to be played that February, but due to the

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the matches were cancelled. The matches were rescheduled to June 2011, but the first match was abandoned without a ball bowled and Maloney did not play in either the second or third match. Maloney ultimately played her first and only

for Australia against

on 2 July 2011. She bowled six overs without taking a wicket and did not bat.

References

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Annie Maloney
at Cricket Australia {{DEFAULTSORT:Maloney, Annie 1989 births Living people Australian cricketers Australian women cricketers Australia women One Day International cricketers Cricketers from Victoria (state) Sportswomen from Victoria (state) Victoria women cricketers