Alice Davidson-Richards
Alice Natica Davidson-Richards (born 29 May 1994) is an English cricketer who plays for Kent, South East Stars and Northern Superchargers. A right-handed batter and right-arm pace bowler, she made her county debut for Kent in 2010. She has played 1 ODI and 5 T20Is for England, making her debut in 2018. Early life. Davidson-Richards was born on 29 May 1994 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She attended the University of Leeds, and has worked as a personal trainer. Domestic career. Davidson-Richards made her Kent debut in 2010, in a match against Surrey  in the 2010 Women's Twenty20 Cup. She scored 29 opening the batting alongside Charlotte Edwards, and then took four wickets as Kent completed an 80-run victory. Davidson-Richards went on to take 10 wickets in the tournament, ending it as the second-highest wicket-taker. She went on to become a regular for Kent in both formats, and was part of Kent's title-winning campaigns in the Women's County Championship in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2019, and in the Women's Twenty20 Cup in 2011, 2013 and 2016. In the Women's Cricket Super League , Davidson-Richards played in all four seasons for the Yorkshire Diamonds. She was more successful with the ball throughout the competition, and was her team's second highest wicket-taker in 2017 and 2018, and their joint highest in 2019. In 2020, Davidson-Richards played three matches for the South East Stars in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, and scored 61 in a match against Sunrisers. She made her List A high score playing for the side in 2021, scoring 92 against Western Storm. She also played six matches in the side's victorious Charlotte Edwards Cup campaign. She played  for Northern Superchargers in 2021 season of The Hundred, taking seven wickets and scoring 110 runs in seven matches. Davidson-Richards played for Otago in the 2018/19 season. She scored two half-centuries in both the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield and the Super Smash, as well as taking 8 wickets in the Shield. In April 2022, she was bought by the Northern Superchargers for the 2022 season of The Hundred. International career. In March 2018, Davidson-Richards was named in the England squad for their tri-series against India and Australia. She played all five matches in the tournament, scoring 28  runs in three innings and bowling four overs for no wicket. In the following ODI series against India, Davidson-Richards played one match, scoring 9 runs as England lost by 1 wicket. In February 2019, Davidson-Richards was awarded a rookie contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for 2019 and in 2020 she was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training following the COVID-19 pandemic, but she has not yet played another game for England. In December 2021, Davidson-Richards was named in England's A squad for their tour to Australia, with the  matches being played alongside the Women's Ashes.