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Full name | Alexandra Clare Griffiths | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Swansea, Wales | 12 June 2002|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016–present | Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019–present | Western Storm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021–present | Welsh Fire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CricketArchive, 21 October 2023 |
Alexandra Clare Griffiths (born 12 June 2002) is a Welsh cricketer who currently plays for Wales, Western Storm and Welsh Fire. An all-rounder, she is a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. [1] [2]
Griffiths was born on 12 June 2002 in Swansea. [2]
Griffiths made her county debut in 2016, for Wales against Essex. She scored 4 runs and did not bowl. [3] She began playing regularly from 2017, and hit 42 in a Championship match that season against Hampshire. [4] Griffiths' stand-out season to date was in 2019, when she scored 168 runs in the County Championship, including hitting her maiden county half-century, 69 against Berkshire. [5] She also began to bowl more regularly, and was Wales' leading wicket-taker in the Twenty20 Cup, taking 9 wickets at an average of 8.11. [6] She also achieved her best Twenty20 bowling, taking 3/12 against Hampshire. [7] She scored her maiden Twenty20 half-century in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, against Gloucestershire. [8]
Griffiths also played for Western Storm in their title-winning Women's Cricket Super League season in 2019. She played five matches and took one wicket. [9]
In 2020, Griffiths remained in the Western Storm squad for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She appeared in all six matches, scoring 141 runs at an average of 35.25 and taking 3 wickets. [10] [11] She also achieved her List A high score, hitting 80 off 68 balls in a victory over Sunrisers and was voted Supporters' Player of the Year at the end of the season. [12] [13] In December 2020, it was announced that Griffiths was one of the 41 female cricketers that had signed a full-time domestic contract. [14]
In 2021, Griffiths played three matches in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for Western Storm, and hit 55 off 60 balls in the final match against Sunrisers. [15] [16] She also took 3 wickets at an average of 17.33 in the Charlotte Edwards Cup. [17] Griffiths also played 7 matches for Welsh Fire in The Hundred, the only female Welsh player in the squad. [18] [19] She was ever-present for Western Storm in 2022, across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, scoring 166 runs with a top score of 48 and taking three wickets. [20] [21] She was also again in the Welsh Fire squad in The Hundred, but did not play a match. [22]
In 2023, she played 19 matches for Western Storm, across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup, scoring one half-century and taking 11 wickets at an average of 31.45 in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. [23] [24] She also played eight matches for Welsh Fire in The Hundred, taking five wickets. [25]