Career
A left-handed batsman and occasional left-arm medium-paced bowler, she has scored the most runs for Australia in women"s Test cricket. Rolton plays domestic cricket for South Australian Scorpions. She made her international debut for Australia in 1995.
She has played in 14 Test matches, scoring 1,002 runs at a batting average of 55.66, including two centuries and five half-centuries.
She made her top score of 209 not out against England at Headingley in 2001, setting a world record. With the ball, she has taken 14 Test wickets with a bowling average of 23.35.
She has also played in two international Twenty20 matches. She was vice-captain of the Australian team from 1997, and took over from Belinda Clark as captain in February 2006.
New Zealand coach Steve Jenkin once joked that the best tactic against Rolton was to avoid dismissing the Australia"s women team"s openers so she could not battalion
She scored 107 in the final of the Women"s Cricket World Cup in 2005, and was named as "man of the match". She was the International Cricket Council"s inaugural Female Player of the Year in 2006. She also holds the highest score in Women"s Twenty20 cricket with an unbeaten 96.
During the winter, Rolton plays hockey.
Rolton announced her retirement from international cricket in January 2010, after a 14 year career.