Grace Wetherall (born 11 November 2006) is a

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 for the

Jersey women's cricket team The Jersey women's cricket team is the team that represents the Crown dependency of Jersey in international women's cricket matches. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2005, and an associate member ...

. She is the first player to score a

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half-century batting at number eight. As of July 2024 she remains the only person to achieve this feat.

Cricket career

Aged 12, Wetherall played in Jersey's first officially recognised

against neighbours

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for the

2019 T20 Inter-Insular Cup Guernsey cricket team hosted Jersey cricket team from 31 May to 1 June 2019 to contest the 2019 T20 Inter-Insular Cup, consisted of three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The series took place at two grounds in Guernsey: College Field in ...

on 31 May 2019, although she neither batted nor bowled in the match at College Field, Saint Peter Port. Later that year she was in the Jersey team that finished second at the France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series. Wetherall was among the Jersey contingent which went one better and lifted the trophy at the

2022 France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series The 2022 France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series was a women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament that was held in Dreux, France, from 5 to 8 May 2022. The participants were the women's national sides of France women's national cr ...

. She was part of the squad which represented the island in the

2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier The 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier was a cricket tournament that formed part of the qualification process for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. In an expanded qualification pathway for women's cricket in Europe, this was the fir ...

. During the tournament Wetherall made her first WT20I half-century, scoring 57 not out against

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in an unbroken partnership of 101 with Analise Merritt, which was a new world record for a seventh wicket stand in the format. Wetherall's innings came off 40 balls and featured nine 4s and a 6 and made her the first player batting at number eight to score a WT20I 50. She also took WT20I career-best bowling figures of 3/15 against

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as Jersey finished third in the six-team event, narrowly missing out on progressing to the next stage of qualification. At the three-match 2023 WT20I Inter-Insular Cup with Guernsey, Wetherall played a key role as Jersey swept to a 3–0 victory. She made 21 in first game, took 2/8 from three overs in the second and then blasted 48 off just 30 balls in third contest. During Jersey's tour of Northern Ireland in June 2024, Wetherall registered bowling figures of 6/18 in the second of two T20 matches against Ireland Women’s U19 Academy.

Hockey

Away from the cricket field, Wetherall has also represented Jersey in hockey including playing in the islanders' win over Guernsey in the 2024 inter-insular women's Big Stick match.

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