Carole Ann Hodges (
married name
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Carole Cornthwaite; born 1 September 1959) is an English former cricketer who played as a right-handed
batter and right-arm
off break
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bowler. She appeared in 18
Test matches and 47
One Day Internationals
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for
England
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between 1982 and 1993. She was part of the England team that won the
1993 World Cup, and took the first ever WODI hattrick in England's first game of the tournament, against
Denmark
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. Her final WODI appearance was in the
final
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of the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup. She played domestic cricket for
Lancashire and Cheshire.
References
External links
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1959 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Blackpool
England women One Day International cricketers
England women Test cricketers
Lancashire and Cheshire women cricketers
Women's One Day International cricket hat-trick takers
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