Una Grace Budd (born 28 October 1975) is an Irish 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-handed batter. She appeared in three

One Day Internationals A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World Cu ...

for

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

between 2003 and 2005. Budd was born in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

. Her younger sister,

Aoife Budd Aoife Maud Budd (born 10 May 1980) is an Irish former cricketer who represented the Irish national team between 2000 and 2001. Her sister Una also represented Ireland between 1998 and 2005. Budd made her Women's One Day International debut in ...

, also played international cricket for Ireland. Budd made her debut for Ireland in 1998, on a tour of England. However, her international debut came over five years later, when she played an ODI match against

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at the

2003 IWCC Trophy The 2003 IWCC Trophy was an international women's cricket tournament held in the Netherlands between 21 and 26 July 2003. Organised by the International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC), it was the inaugural edition of what is now the World Cup Qual ...

in the Netherlands. She scored 33 * on debut, which was to be the highest score of her ODI career. Budd made her final appearances for Ireland at the 2005 World Cup in South Africa. She played in all six of her team's matches, making 43 runs from five innings.Women's World Cup, 2004/05 - Ireland Women / Records / Batting and bowling averages
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