Emily Jane Smith (born 9 January 1995) is an Australian

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 plays as a

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. She has previously taken the field for

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Essex Eagles Essex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Essex. Founded in 1876, the club had minor county status until 1894 when ...

Perth Scorchers The Perth Scorchers is an Australian domestic Twenty20 franchise cricket team representing the Western Australian city of Perth in the Big Bash League (BBL). The Scorchers are the current BBL Champions, having defeated the Sydney Sixers in the ...

Hobart Hurricanes The Hobart Hurricanes are an Australian professional men's T20 franchise cricket team based in Tasmania, Australia. They compete in Australia's domestic T20 cricket competition known as the Big Bash League, which is a league where many in ...

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and

Tasmanian Tigers The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield and the ...

. Smith began her cricketing career in

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, after being introduced to the game by one of her friends. Neither of her parents was a cricket fan. After playing as a junior at Sunshine Cricket Club, she joined Victorian Premier Cricket team Essendon Maribyrnong Park, and during the 2012–13 season she was a member of the

Victorian Spirit The Victoria Women cricket team, previously known as Victorian Spirit, is the women's representative cricket team for the Australian State of Victoria. They play their home games at Junction Oval, St Kilda, Melbourne. They compete in the Wome ...

rookie squad. At the start of the 2013–14 season, Smith was signed by Tasmanian Roar. In 2014–15, she spent the majority of the season travelling south to play for the Roar. In 2015–16, she relocated to Tasmania for the full season, and during the Australian winters of 2015 and 2016, she played for Essex. Smith kept wicket for the Hobart Hurricanes during its inaugural WBBL01 season (2015–16). In October 2016, she was recruited by Westmeadows Cricket Club in Melbourne as its girls' cricket program coach, and joined Western Fury and the Perth Scorchers as a replacement for Jenny Wallace, who had retired. In November 2018, she was named in the

' squad for the

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. Smith moved to the

and

for the 2019 season. On 18 November 2019 she was suspended from playing cricket for twelve months, with nine of those suspended, for breaching

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's anti-corruption policy when she posted an image of her team's batting lineup on

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. Smith's partner is her

teammate

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who moved to Tasmania in 2020 to spend more time with her.

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