Isobel Mary Helen Cecilia Joyce (born 25 July 1983) is an Irish former

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er. She played as a right-handed

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and left-arm

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bowler. She appeared in one

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, 79

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and 55

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for

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between 1999 and 2018. She played in her final match for Ireland in November 2018, during the

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tournament. She played domestic cricket for Scorchers,

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and

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Playing career

Joyce made her debut for Ireland in a One-Day International (ODI) against

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in June 1999. She then played in the Women's European Championship the following month. In 2000, she played four ODIs against

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Women's ODIs played by Isobel Joyce
at CricketArchive and played her only Test match, also against Pakistan. This is Ireland's only Test match to date. She played in the Women's World Cup in New Zealand towards the end of the year. Since the 2000 World Cup, she has played ODIs against

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, the

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and

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, also playing in the European Championship in 2001 and 2005, and in the IWCC Trophy in the

in 2003. In April 2016, she stepped down as captain of the

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following their exit at the group stages of the

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. She captained Ireland in 62 matches across all formats of the games including two

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tournaments. In June 2018, she was named in Ireland's squad for the

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tournament. In October 2018, she was named in Ireland's squad for the

tournament in the West Indies. The following month, she was named the Female Club Player of the Year at the annual Cricket Ireland Awards.

Family

Joyce is one of nine children of James "Jimmy" and Maureen Joyce. Joyce comes from a cricketing family. Her twin sister

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has also played for the Irish women's team, whilst three of her brothers, Dominick, Ed and

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have all played for the Ireland men's team. Ed has also played

for

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. Her mother Maureen was a cricket scorer. She was also scorer in two WODIs in 2002 when New Zealand women toured to Netherlands and Ireland. Isobel married former Irish cricketer

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. Thus they became one of the very few cricketing couples to play international cricket.

Field hockey

In 2009–10, together with her sister

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and

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, Joyce was a member of the

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team that won the

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title.

References

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