Naomi Elizabeth Stalenberg (born 18 April 1994) is an Australian

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er who plays as a right-handed

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and right-arm

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bowler. She represented

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in domestic cricket beginning in 2013, and in 2016 she played a

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(T20I) for the

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. In 2020 she was cut from New South Wales' squad and began playing for

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. She has also played in the

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(WBBL) for the

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and the

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Early life

Stalenberg was born in

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on 18 April 1994. Her grandparents had immigrated to Australia from the

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. Stalenberg began playing sport at an early stage of her life. She started playing

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at six years old and cricket at eight years old. She initially focused more on football and participated in the New South Wales state All Schools Championship. After high school, Stalenberg took a gap year and stayed in

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in the Netherlands. Despite not speaking Dutch, she played for a local cricket team in the city and decided to pursue a career in cricket.

Cricket career

In the 2013/14 season, Stalenberg began playing domestic cricket in Australia, playing for

in the

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(WNCL). She also joined the

for the inaugural season of the

(WBBL) in 2015. Because of the low pay in women's cricket early in her career, Stalenberg split her time between studying at university, working at a hotel, training at nights and playing cricket on weekends. Stalenberg had a strong year in the 2015–16 WBBL season. She was one of the competition's fastest-scoring batters, scoring 160 runs at a

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of 150.94 runs per 100 balls. As a result, she was selected as part of the Australian national cricket team's 15-player squad for a

(T20I) series against India in January 2016. Stalenberg appeared in one T20I against India on 26 January 2016, but Australia finished their run chase before she had a chance to bat, so she neither batted nor bowled in the match. In the 2016/17 season, Stalenberg was able to become a full-time cricketer as New South Wales began paying all of their players a full time wage. She had another strong year in 2017/18, but she was overlooked by the national team and instead played warm-up matches against the touring English team for a Cricket Australia XI. Playing for New South Wales, she won the Women's National Cricket League final for the fourth time, and at the end of the season she was called up again to the national team for the

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, but she did not play a match during the tournament. Stalenberg had her career-best season in the WNCL in 2019/20, scoring 255 runs in nine games for New South Wales, but at the end of the season she was cut from the team. During the 2020 winter she switched state teams and signed with

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. She began playing for Tasmania in the WNCL and the

in the WBBL in the 2020/21 season.

References

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