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 striki ...

er who played as an all-rounder. She was a right-handed

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and right-arm fast-medium bowler. She appeared in three One Day Internationals for England in August 2001, making her debut against Scotland. In total she took one wicket and scored 14 runs. She played domestic cricket for

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

from 1998 to 2015. In June 2009 Walker was appointed as the cricket director at Brighton College, a co-educational private school in

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. She is the first woman cricket director at an English private school. Previously she was cricket performance manager at

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

. 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