Katherine Helen Brunt (born 2 July 1985) is an English

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er who currently plays for

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, Northern Diamonds, Trent Rockets and

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. She plays as a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed lower-order batter. She has won two

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and one

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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

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. She played in 14 Test matches for England from 2004 to 2022.

Career

2015–16 WBBL PS v ST 15-12-28 Brunt (02)

2016–17 WBBL ST v PS 17-01-21 Brunt (02)

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

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, Barnsley,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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. In June 2021, Brunt was named as in England's

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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

. In February 2022, she was named in England's team for the

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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

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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

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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

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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

. 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) �
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