Rosalie Anne Birch (born 6 December 1983) is an English former

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played as a right-arm off break bowler and right-handed lower middle order

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. She appeared in 7

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, 37 One Day Internationals and 4 Twenty20 Internationals for England between 2003 and 2008. She was part of the England team that won the Ashes in 2005 and retained them in 2008. Domestically, Birch played for

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and later for Devon. She was also named in Western Storm's squad for the inaugural Women's Cricket Super League in 2016 but did not make an appearance. From 2003, Birch combined her cricketing career with full-time study at the University of Sussex. She graduated with a BA in linguistics in 2006.

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* 1983 births Living people English women cricketers Cricketers from St Albans Alumni of the University of Sussex England women Test cricketers England women One Day International cricketers England women Twenty20 International cricketers Sussex women cricketers Devon women cricketers Western Storm cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1980s-stub