Cherry-Ann Singh (born 13 February 1961) is a Trinidadian 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 a
slow left-arm orthodox bowler. She appeared in seven
One Day Internationals for the
West Indies, all at the
1993 World Cup. She played domestic cricket for
Trinidad and Tobago.
Singh played in all seven of the West Indies' matches at the World Cup, one of only four members of her team to do so. Against
India in the first match of the tournament, which was her
One Day International
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 C ...
(ODI) debut, she took 1/14 from five overs, and also scored 17 runs coming in seventh in the batting order. Singh finished the tournament with 13 wickets, by far the most for her team –
Carol-Ann James was the next-best, with eight wickets. In her final four matches, she took 2/11 against
Denmark, 2/20 against
New Zealand, 2/20 against
England, and 5/36 against
Ireland. Her performance against Ireland was the first ODI five-wicket haul by a West Indian woman, and stood as a team record until August 2011, when it was broken by
Anisa Mohammed
Anisa Mohammed (born 7 September 1988) is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for Trinidad and Tobago women's national cricket team, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinbago Knight Riders (WCPL), Trinbago Knight Riders and the West Indies women's cricket tea ...
.
West Indies Women / Records / Women's One-Day Internationals / Best bowling figures in an innings
– ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
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1961 births
Living people
West Indian women cricketers
West Indies women One Day International cricketers
Trinidad and Tobago women cricketers
Trinidad and Tobago people of Indian descent
Sportspeople of Indian descent