Career
A right-handed batsman, Buckstein played one Test and 16 ODIs, also scoring an ODI century. Buckstein played softball for the Victorian state team before her first club cricket match appearance in 1973. At the time, Buckstein was an undergraduate student at Monash University.
Buckstein played as an opener.
As of 2014 Buckstein and Julien Wiener are the only Jewish Australians to have represented Australia in Test cricket.