Emma Liddell
Australian cricketer
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Emma Liddell (born 30 March 1980) is an Australian former cricketer.[1]
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| Born | 30 March 1980 Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 141) | 15 February 2003 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 August 2005 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 95) | 20 February 2002 v New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 30 August 2005 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998/99–2005/06 | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 7 August 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liddell played 80 Women's National Cricket League matches for the New South Wales Breakers.[2] She also played three Tests and 33 One Day Internationals for the Australia national women's cricket team.[1] She was the 141st woman to play Test cricket for Australia,[3] and the 95th woman to play One Day International cricket for Australia.[4]
Liddell attended Grantham High School, in Sydney's western suburbs. She took up playing cricket at the age of 14, following her brother into the sport.[5] In February 1996, aged 15, she turned out for a representative Metropolitan West side at the annual New South Wales Combined High Schools Cricket Championships, held in Penrith. On the first day of the tournament, in a match against Metropolitan East, she dismissed the entire opposing side without conceding a run, finishing with figures of 10/0 from 7.4 overs.[6][7] All her victims were clean-bowled,[8] with the team as a whole scoring only seven runs.[5] The feat is one of the rarest in cricket – only 24 instances have been recorded across all levels of the game, with Liddell the only woman known to have completed it.[9]