Jane Joseph is a former

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er who represented the

Trinidad and Tobago women's national cricket team The Trinidad and Tobago women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago. They compete in the Women's Super50 Cup and the Twenty20 Blaze. In 1973, they competed in the first World Cup, finish ...

. An

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, Joseph played in all six

women's One Day Internationals Women's One Day International (WODI) is the limited overs form of women's cricket. Matches are scheduled for 50 overs, equivalent to the men's game. The first women's ODIs were played in 1973, as part of the first Women's World Cup which was ...

at the inaugural Women's Cricket World Cup in 1973 in England. Playing in matches against

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, the International XI and

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, she finished the tournament with a

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of 12.16 runs per

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, the ninth best overall. Her best performance came in the match against Young England, where she took 3 wickets for 7 runs from 10 overs and made 23

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with the bat. Prior to the World Cup in February 1971, Joseph played in both Hayward Shield matches for Trinidad – a tri-series against England and Jamaica with Trinidad winning both the two-day games and the tournament. She also played in a 1-day single innings match for South Trinidad against the same touring English women side where she took 2/61 from 9 overs.

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