Leah Poulton – Special Guest On The Cricket Library Podcast

Cricket – ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Cup 2009 – Semi Final – England v Australia – The Brit Oval. Leah Poulton, Australia PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo

Leah Poulton represented Australia in 2 Tests, 48 ODIs and 40 T20Is as well playing over 100 games for NSW.

She was a high quality top order batter who had a reputation for scoring runs quickly which was confirmed when she became the first female to score a century in Women’s domestic T20 cricket for NSW.

In her distinguished career, Leah was a part of two successful ICC World T20 Campaigns for Australia top scoring in the 2010 decider. 

Leah is a four time winner of the Belinda Clark medal which is awarded to the premier female cricketer in NSW. 

In this edition of the Cricket Library Podcast, we will hear from Leah about where her love for the game originated, some key influences on her career, some memorable moments, what she is up to now as well as finding out which three people Leah would most like to have a net with.

She also shares with us a very interesting story about how she found out that she had been selected to represent her country for the first time.

We trust you will thoroughly enjoy our chat with Leah Poulton.

Leah Poulton Career Stats

CompetitionWTestWODIWT20IWLA
Matches24840171
Runs scored451,0337844,376
Batting average15.0025.1920.6329.17
100s/50s0/02/40/03/28
Top score23104*61109
Balls bowled2414418660
Wickets03211
Bowling average32.6610.0040.45
5 wickets in innings0000
10 wickets in match0000
Best bowling0/152/92/203/10
Catches/stumpings1/–12/–7/–35/–

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