Georgia Ellen Plimmer (born 8 February 2004) is a New Zealand

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 currently plays for

Wellington Blaze The Wellington Blaze is the women's representative cricket team for the New Zealand city of Wellington. They play their home games at Basin Reserve. They compete in the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield one-day competition and the Women's Super Smash ...

as a right-handed

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. In February 2022, she was named in

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

's squad for

2022 Women's Cricket World Cup The 2022 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup was the twelfth edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup, which was held in New Zealand in March and April 2022. It was originally scheduled for 6 February to 7 March 2021 but was postponed by one year due ...

as a replacement for injured

Lauren Down Lauren Renee Down (born 7 May 1995) is a New Zealand cricketer who has played for Auckland and New Zealand. She made her Women's One Day International cricket (WODI) debut for New Zealand Women against the West Indies Women on 4 March 2018. In ...

. In May 2022, she was named in New Zealand Women's central contract list for the 2022–23 season. Plimmer made her List A debut for Wellington in the 2019–20 Hallyburton Johnstone Shield. She made her T20 debut for Wellington in the

2020–21 Super Smash The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

. In June 2022, Plimmer was named in New Zealand's team for the cricket tournament at the

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, England. Plimmer made her

Women's Twenty20 International Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) is the shortest form of women's international cricket. A women's Twenty20 International is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between two of the International Cricket Council (ICC) members. The first Twent ...

(WT20I) debut for New Zealand against

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on 6 August 2022 at the

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. She made 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 ...

debut against the West Indies on 25 September 2022. In December 2022, Plimmer was selected in the New Zealand Under-19 squad for the

2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup The 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup was the first edition of the ICC Women's Under-19 Cricket World Cup, hosted by South Africa in 2023. The tournament was moved from its original slot at the end of 2021 to January 2023 because of the COV ...

. She was New Zealand's leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 155 runs at an average of 51.66. In January 2023, Plimmer was selected in New Zealand's squad for the

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, in which she made three appearances.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Plimmer, Georgia 2004 births Living people New Zealand women cricketers New Zealand women One Day International cricketers New Zealand women Twenty20 International cricketers Wellington Blaze cricketers Cricketers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games medallists in cricket Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games