Katherine Helen Brunt (born 2 July 1985) is an English
cricket
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er who currently plays for
Yorkshire
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,
Northern Diamonds,
Trent Rockets and
England
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. She plays as a right-arm
fast bowler and right-handed lower-order
batter. She has won two
World Cups
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and one
T20 World Cup
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with England, and has been named England women's Cricketer of the Year four times. In June 2022, Brunt announced her retirement from playing
Test cricket
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. She played in 14 Test matches for England from 2004 to 2022.
Career
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An aggressive right arm fast bowler with a classical action, she played for Yorkshire age group sides before taking a break from cricket at the age of 17 due to fitness concerns. She went to
Penistone Grammar School
Penistone Grammar School (PGS) is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England.
Founded in 1392, it is the 45th oldest extant school in England with its most notable alumnus being Nicholas ...
, Barnsley,
South Yorkshire
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. She returned for the Test against New Zealand in 2004 and was a member of the 2005 England World Cup side in South Africa. She took 14 wickets and scored her maiden half century as England won the Ashes in 2005 and opened the bowling in England's successful 2009 World Cup Campaign.
She was Player of the Match in the 2009 Twenty20 World championship final at Lords, taking 3 wickets for 6 runs in her 4 over opening spell and took a career best 6 for 69 in the one off Ashes Test which followed. Her best figures in one day internationals came in the final of the
2011 NatWest Women's Quadrangular Series where her 5 for 18 bowled England to victory over Australia.
She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014.
Brunt was a member of the winning women's team at the
2017 Women's Cricket World Cup
The 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup was an international women's cricket tournament that took place in England from 24 June to 23 July 2017. It was the eleventh edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup, and the third to be held in England (after ...
held in England.
[England v India: Women's World Cup final – live!]
, ''The Guardian'', 23 July 2017.
In October 2018, she was named in England's squad for the
2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20
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tournament in the West Indies. However, she was ruled out of the tournament due to a back injury and was replaced by
Fran Wilson.
In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the
England and Wales Cricket Board
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(ECB) for 2019. In June 2019, the ECB named her in England's squad for their opening match
against Australia to contest the
Women's Ashes
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.
In December 2019, in the opening match of England's series
against Pakistan in Malaysia, Brunt took her 150th wicket in WODI matches. In January 2020, she was named in England's squad for the
2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
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in Australia.
On 18 June 2020, Brunt was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training ahead of international women's fixtures starting in England following the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. In June 2021, Brunt was named as in England's
Test
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squad for their one-off match
against India. In December 2021, Brunt was named in England's squad for their
tour to Australia to contest the
Women's Ashes
The Women's Ashes is the perpetual trophy in women's international cricket series between England and Australia. The name derives from the historic precedent of the Ashes in male cricket and, until 2013, was similarly decided exclusively on the ...
. In February 2022, she was named in England's team for the
2022 Women's Cricket World Cup
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in New Zealand.
In April 2022, she was bought by the
Trent Rockets for the
2022 season of
The Hundred. In July 2022, she was named in England's team for the
cricket tournament at the
2022 Commonwealth Games
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in
Birmingham
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, England. Later the same month, during England's home series
against South Africa, Brunt took her 100th wicket in WT20I cricket. On 30 July 2022, in England's first fixture of the Commonwealth Games, against
Sri Lanka, Brunt played in her 100th WT20I match.
Personal life
Brunt's
nickname
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s are "Brunty" and "Nunny". In 2015, she explained to sports journalist
Clare Balding that she is known as Nunny because she had set off a fire alarm during a residential cricket course at the Benedictine-run
Ampleforth College
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.
In October 2019, Brunt announced her engagement to fellow England cricketer
Nat Sciver
Natalie Ruth Sciver-Brunt (; ; born 20 August 1992) is an English cricketer. She was the first cricketer for England to take a hat-trick in a Women's Twenty20 International match. The " Natmeg" shot is named after Sciver, from when she has hit ...
. They were scheduled to get married in September 2020, but their wedding was postponed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. The couple eventually married in May 2022.
Awards
* ECB Cricketer of the Year – 2006, 2010, 2012–13
References
External links
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The Final Word Podcast Interview of Katherine Brunt (published 3 August 2022) â€
on Apple Podcastson Google Podcastson Spotifyan
on YouTube
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1985 births
Living people
England women One Day International cricketers
England women Test cricketers
England women Twenty20 International cricketers
People educated at Penistone Grammar School
Cricketers from Barnsley
Yorkshire women cricketers
Yorkshire Diamonds cricketers
Northern Diamonds cricketers
Perth Scorchers (WBBL) cricketers
Melbourne Stars (WBBL) cricketers
LGBT sportspeople from England
LGBT cricketers
Lesbian sportswomen
Trent Rockets cricketers
Cricketers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for England