Lucy Charlotte Pearson (born 19 February 1972) is a teacher and former

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er who played 12

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matches and 62

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s. Pearson also played in the inaugural

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, taking one wicket against

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. A left-arm

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opening bowler, her best performance was against

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, taking 7–51 in the first

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of the second Test in 2003, winning the Player of the Match award for match figures of 58–21–107–11, becoming only the second English woman to take 11

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s against Australia in over 70 years.Lucy Pearson retires from all cricket
2005-04-20, ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2023. As a result, Pearson was named (2003) Women's Player of the Year for the second time, having taken the inaugural award in 2000.Shenstonian: Valetes
, September 2006,

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. Retrieved 30 August 2008. She was also nominated 2005. After guiding England to the semi-finals of the

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in South Africa, Pearson was forced to retire with a recurrence of the

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to her ankle that forced her to miss most of the 2002 season. Pearson read English at

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,Wellington College Teaching Staff
,

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. Retrieved 30 August 2008. where she also played

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. She spent three and a half years as Head of Sixth Form at

, where she sang in the school

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and coached the cricket and hockey XIs. In 2006, she took up a post as Deputy Head of

, also teaching English and she is a member of the cricket coaching team. She was the Head of Cheadle Hulme School, which she joined in September 2010. In September 2017, Pearson announced that she would step down from this role at the end of August 2018, joining

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as Director of Education. In 2016 Pearson was appointed to the Board of the ECB as the Director responsible for women's cricket. She left the Board in May 2023.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pearson, Lucy 1972 births Living people English women cricketers Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Cricketers from King's Lynn East Anglia women cricketers England women One Day International cricketers England women Test cricketers England women Twenty20 International cricketers People educated at Oakham School Staffordshire women cricketers Thames Valley women cricketers