Caitriona Mary Beggs (born 15 July 1977) is an Irish 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 a right-handed
batter and occasional
wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises. ...
. She appeared in one
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and 61
One Day Internationals
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(ODIs) for
Ireland
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between 1995 and 2008.
She also played two matches for
Northern Districts
The Northern Districts men's cricket team are one of six New Zealand first-class cricket teams that make up New Zealand Cricket.
They are based in the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand (excluding Auckland). They compete in the ...
in 2008.
With 1,217 runs, she is Ireland's third-highest run-scorer in ODIs. In Ireland's only Test match, Beggs top-scored in her side's only innings with 68
* as Ireland won by an innings and 54 runs.
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1977 births
Living people
Cricketers from Dublin (city)
Ireland women One Day International cricketers
Ireland women Test cricketers
Northern Districts women cricketers
Wicket-keepers
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