Jacqueline Margaret "Jackie" Court (born 22 January 1950) 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 str ...

er who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm leg break bowler. She appeared in 17 Test matches and 23

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for

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between 1976 and 1987. She also played 4 matches for

Young England {{about, the Conservative political group, imaginary military society, Edward Oxford Young England was a Victorian era political group with a political message based on an idealised feudalism: an absolute monarch and a strong Established Church, ...

at the 1973 World Cup. She played domestic cricket for

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbour ...

. Born in

Willesden Willesden () is an area of northwest London, situated 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It is historically a parish in the county of Middlesex that was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Willesden in 1933, and has forme ...

, she made her One Day International debut in the inaugural Women's World Cup in 1973 for Young England against Australia. She made her

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debut against the same opposition at the Oval in 1976 and played her last test, again against Australia, at

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in 1987. She scored 577 runs in total, with a highest score of 90 at an average of 20.60. She also took 8 test wickets. She played 27

, scoring 397 runs at 23.35 with a top score of 67 and taking 16 wickets at 22.37.

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* 1950 births English women cricketers England women Test cricketers Living people Middlesex women cricketers People from Willesden Sportspeople from the London Borough of Brent Young England women cricketers England women One Day International cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1950s-stub