Career
She was named England women"s Cricketer of the Year in 2006 and again in 2010. An aggressive right arm fast bowler with a classical action, she played for Yorkshire age group sides before taking a break from cricket at the age of 17 due to fitness concerns. She went to Penistone Grammar School, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
She was Woman of the Match in the 2009 Twenty/20 World championship final at Lords, taking 3 wickets for 6 runs in her 4 over opening spell and took a career best 6 for 69 in the one off Ashes Test which followed.
Her best figures in one day internationals came in the final of the National Westminster Quadrangular Series of 2011 where her 5 for 18 bowled England to victory over Australia. She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014.