Claire Antonia Polosak (born 7 April 1988) is an Australian cricket umpire. Polosak is a school teacher by profession. In January 2017, she was one of the four female umpires named by the ICC to stand in matches in the

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. On 8 October 2017, she became the first woman to stand as an on-field umpire in a men's domestic fixture in Australia, when she was one of the umpires in the match between New South Wales and Cricket Australia XI in the

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. On 11 January 2018, she became the first woman to umpire a match involving the England men's cricket team, when she stood in a one-day warm up match between England and a Cricket Australia XI. In October 2018, she was named as one of the twelve on-field umpires for the

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. In April 2019, she was named as one of the eight on-field umpires for the

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tournament in Namibia. She was appointed as one of the on-field umpires for the final, becoming the first woman to stand in a men's

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(ODI) match. In May 2019, the International Cricket Council named her as one of the eight women on the ICC Development Panel of Umpires. In August 2019, she was named as one of the umpires to officiate in matches during the

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tournament in Scotland. In February 2020, the ICC named her as one of the umpires to officiate in matches during the

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in Australia. On 28 November 2020, Polosak and

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were the on-field umpires for the final of the

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, the first time two female umpires officiated in a national final. She became the first female to be involved as an umpire in a men’s Test match in January 2021, when she stood as the fourth umpire in the third Test on India's tour to Australia in 2020–21. In February 2022, she was named as one of the on-field umpires for the

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in New Zealand. On 9 September 2022, she stood in her first Twenty20 International (T20I) match on 9 September 2022, between Cook Islands and Samoa.

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