Ariette "Jet" van Noortwijk (born 11 May 1968) is a Dutch former
cricket
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er whose international career for the Dutch national side spanned from 1989 to 1997. She finished her career with 27
One Day International
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(ODI) matches, including games at both the
1993
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and 1997 World Cups.
Van Noortwijk made her ODI debut at the 1989 European Championship, aged 18.Women's ODI matches played by Jet van Noortwijk – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 June 2015. A right-handed
all-rounder
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, on debut against
England
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she scored 46
not out
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in her team's innings of 91/7 from 55 overs, the only Dutch batsman to pass double figures. She also took 2/28 with her medium-pace bowling in the same match, which was followed by 3/21 in the next game against
Ireland
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. Van Noortwijk also featured in the 1990 and 1991 editions of the tournament, with a notable performance being 3/13 against
Denmark
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in the opening game of the 1991 tournament, helping her side to a narrow four-run victory.
At the 1993 World Cup in England, the next major tournament for the Dutch team, van Noortwijk played in all seven matches. There, she recorded what were to be career-best figures for both batting and bowling – 52 against Ireland and 4/21 against Denmark, at the time the fourth-best ODI figures by a Dutchwoman. Van Noortwijk finished her ODI career after the 1997 World Cup in India, despite being only 27. Against
India
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in that tournament, she was named player of match after finishing with 4/25 from her eight overs, although that was not enough to prevent the Netherlands losing by 93 runs.
Outside of her international career, Van Noortwijk began playing for
Yorkshire
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, an English domestic team, in 1993, and continued until 1999, in what is now the
Women's County Championship
The Women's County Championship, known since 2014 as the Royal London Women’s One-Day Cup,Ingrid Dulfer-Keijzer's record for the most wickets taken for the Netherlands, which has since been beaten by
Carolien Salomons
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,
Sandra Kottman
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,
Caroline de Fouw
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, and
Cheraldine Oudolf
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