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Australian cricketer
Cathryn Fitzpatrick
Full name Cathryn Lorraine Fitzpatrick
Born (1968-03-04 ) 4 March 1968 (age 56)
Melbourne , Australia Batting Right-handed Bowling Right-arm
fast National side Test debut (cap
121 ) 2 February 1991 v
India Last Test 18 February 2006 v
India ODI debut (cap
71 ) 24 July 1993 v
West Indies Last ODI 4 February 2006 v
New Zealand T20I debut (cap
5 ) 2 September 2005 v
England Last T20I 18 October 2006 v
New Zealand
Years Team 1989/90–2006/07
Victoria
Cathryn Lorraine Fitzpatrick (born 4 March 1968) is an Australian former
cricketer . She was recognised as the world's
fastest female
bowler throughout her career and became the first woman to take 100
One Day International wickets.
[1] She appeared in 13
Test matches , 109
One Day Internationals and two
Twenty20 Internationals for
Australia between 1991 and 2007. She played domestic cricket for
Victoria .
[2]
[3] In 2019, Fitzpatrick was inducted into both the
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame and the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame .
[4]
[5]
Career summary
While juggling her full-time job as a
waste collector and later a
postwoman , Fitzpatrick represented
Australia in cricket on 124 occasions.
[6] She made her international debut in 1991 and went on to play 13
Test matches , taking 60 wickets (the second-most by an Australian woman, only behind
Betty Wilson ) at an
average of 19.11.
[7]
Fitzpatrick also played 109
One Day Internationals , taking 180 wickets (the most by any woman until surpassed by
Jhulan Goswami in May 2017) at an average of 16.79.
[8]
[9] She was a member of the Australian team that won the
Women's Cricket World Cup in
1997 and
2005 .
[10]
[11]
On 25 February 2006, Fitzpatrick became the oldest woman to take a
five-wicket haul in ODI history, at the age of 37 years and 358 days.
[12] In March 2007, she announced her retirement from international cricket and also brought her domestic career with
Victoria to an end after taking 148 wickets in 103
WNCL matches.
[13]
From May 2012 to March 2015, Fitzpatrick served as head coach of the Australian women's team, overseeing three successful world championship campaigns.
[14]
In 2019, Fitzpatrick was inducted into the
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame .
[15] Later that year, she was inducted into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame .
[16]
Bowling speed
Due to limitations of technological resources in her playing tenure, Fitzpatrick's top and average speeds are estimates rather than precise figures. Thorough eye-witness testimony agrees she was the world's fastest female bowler during her prime years,
[17]
[18]
[19] while sporadic measurements indicated her quickest delivery was at least 125 km/h.
[20]
[21]
[22] This evaluation holds up both impressively and credibly compared with modern women's cricket, which is characterised by increased professional standards - as of 2019, the fastest current bowlers were
South Africa 's
Shabnim Ismail and
New Zealand 's
Lea Tahuhu , who were officially recorded at speeds of 128 km/h and 126 km/h respectively.
[23]
Honours
Team
Individual
References
Notes
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"Leading Ladies: First to 100 ODI wickets from each team" . Women's CricZone . Retrieved 6 June 2020 .
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"Player Profile: Cathryn Fitzpatrick" . ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 25 November 2022 .
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"Player Profile: Cathryn Fitzpatrick" . CricketArchive . Retrieved 25 November 2022 .
^ Pierik, Jon (11 February 2019).
"Jones, Fitzpatrick and Murdoch inducted into cricket's Hall of Fame" . The Age . Retrieved 11 February 2019 .
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"ICC Hall of Fame: Cathryn Fitzpatrick" .
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"Elite now, elite then: Before the golden age of women's cricket" . cricket.com.au . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Records | Women's Test matches | Bowling records | Most wickets in career" . Cricinfo . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Cathryn Fitzpatrick" . Cricinfo . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Jhulan Goswami: Goswami breaks record as Indian women beat SA women by 7 wkts | Cricket News - Times of India" . The Times of India . 9 May 207. Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Full Scorecard of New Zealand Women vs Australia Women Final 1997 - Score Report" . www.espncricinfo.com . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Sublime Rolton guides Australia to fifth World Cup" . www.espncricinfo.com . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | Bowling records | Oldest player to take five-wickets-in-an-innings" . Cricinfo . Retrieved 3 May 2017 .
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"Fitzpatrick retires after 16-year career" . www.espncricinfo.com . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Fitzpatrick steps down from Southern Stars" . cricket.com.au . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Australian Cricket Awards | Cricket Australia" . Archived from
the original on 19 April 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2019 .
^ Cricinfo (19 July 2019).
"Sachin Tendulkar, Allan Donald, Cathryn Fitzpatrick inducted in ICC Hall of Fame" . ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 July 2019 .
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"ICC Hall of Fame: Cathryn Fitzpatrick" . www.icc-cricket.com . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
^ Vaidya, Jaideep (4 March 2013).
"Cathryn Fitzpatrick: The ultimate benchmark for fast bowlers in women's cricket" . Cricket Country . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Wisden's Five Greats of the Women's Game – Cathryn Fitzpatrick" . Wisden: The blog . 24 August 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Fitzpatrick calls it a day, still at top of her game" . The Age . 28 March 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
^ Gary Cox (18 October 2018).
Cricket Ball . Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 203–.
ISBN
978-1-350-01457-2 .
^ Lawrence Booth (9 April 2020).
The Shorter Wisden 2020: The Best Writing from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2020 . Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 84–.
ISBN
978-1-4729-7638-3 .
^ Cherny, Daniel (21 February 2020).
"Women's T20 World Cup: The female pace race - who will be the fastest of them all? Shabnim Ismail, Lea Tahuhu, Ellyse Perry jostle, Tayla Vlaeminck is the future" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 28 May 2020 .
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"Full Scorecard of Victoria Women vs New South Wales Women 2nd Final 2003 - Score Report" . www.espncricinfo.com . Retrieved 17 July 2020 .
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"Full Scorecard of Victoria Women vs New South Wales Women 3rd Final 2005 - Score Report" . www.espncricinfo.com . Retrieved 17 July 2020 .
Further reading
External links
Links to Cathryn Fitzpatrick-related articles
Sarah Coyte was included in the original squad but withdrew due to illness; she was replaced by Nicola Carey.
Jess Jonassen was included in the original squad but withdrew due to injury; she was replaced by Renee Chappell.