Anne Bierwisch was born on 26 December 1987 and is a German toxicologist and cricketer who plays for the national cricket team as a batter.
11 Facts About Anne Bierwisch
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Anne Bierwisch was the first player, male or female, to take a hat-trick for Germany in a Twenty20 International.
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In 2016, Anne Bierwisch started playing cricket, after the then Germany women's captain, Stephanie Frohnmayer, asked her to join her cricket club in Bavaria.
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At the time, Anne Bierwisch was a scholar at a research institute in Munich.
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Since 2019, Anne Bierwisch has been playing her domestic level cricket for the Frankfurt Cricket Club.
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Frankfurt later won the match by 194 runs, with Anne Bierwisch being awarded Player of the Match, and, later still, Player of the Season.
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On 26 June 2019, Anne Bierwisch made her WT20I debut for Germany against Scotland at the La Manga Club Ground, Murcia, Spain, in the first match of the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Europe, which was Germany's first ever WT20I.
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On 13 August 2020, in the third match of another bilateral series, between Germany and Austria at the Seebarn Cricket Ground in Austria, Anne Bierwisch became the first player, male or female, to take a hat-trick for Germany in a T20I.
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Two days later, in the fifth and final match of the bilateral series, Anne Bierwisch was again Germany's most successful bowler.
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Anne Bierwisch took four wickets for seven runs from four overs, including two maidens, and was again named player of the match.
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In Germany's next bilateral series, against France at the Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld, in July 2021, Anne Bierwisch played in four of the matches, but did not bat, and bowled only 3.2 overs.