Charlotte Marie Edwards was born on 17 December 1979 and is an English former cricketer and current cricket coach and commentator.
89 Facts About Charlotte Edwards
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Charlotte Edwards appeared in 23 Test matches, 191 One Day Internationals and 95 Twenty20 Internationals for England between 1996 and 2016.
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Charlotte Edwards played domestic cricket in England for East Anglia, Kent, Hampshire and Southern Vipers, as well as overseas for Northern Districts, Western Australia, Perth Scorchers, South Australia and Adelaide Strikers.
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Charlotte Edwards has the second most appearances in Women's Test matches, and the most appearances for England in WODIs.
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Charlotte Edwards is England's second-leading run-scorer in Women's Test matches, and all-time leading run-scorer in both WODIs and Women's Twenty20 Internationals.
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Charlotte Edwards was named ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year in 2008, and PCA Women's Player of the Year and a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2014.
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Charlotte Edwards was awarded an MBE in 2009 and a CBE in 2014.
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Charlotte Edwards first captained England in 2005, and was appointed as captain of the national side permanently in 2006, following the retirement of Clare Connor.
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Charlotte Edwards remained captain of the side until the side's exit from the 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20, after which she was told she was not part of the side's future plans: she subsequently retired from international cricket.
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Charlotte Edwards continued playing domestic cricket for Hampshire and Southern Vipers before announcing her retirement from all cricket in September 2017, playing her final match in June 2018 for Hampshire.
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Charlotte Edwards became Head Coach of her former team Southern Vipers in 2020, and led them to the first two Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy titles.
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In 2021, the new English domestic women's Twenty20 competition, the Charlotte Edwards Cup, was named after her in recognition of her contribution to English cricket, with Southern Vipers first winning the trophy named after their coach in 2022.
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Charlotte Edwards regularly appears as a commentator on cricket for Sky Sports, and was appointed president of the Professional Cricketers' Association in 2021.
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Charlotte Edwards was born on 17 December 1979 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and grew up on a farm near Pidley.
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Charlotte Edwards played her first club cricket at Ramsey Cricket Club in Huntingdonshire, and later captained one of the youth sides.
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Charlotte Edwards was the side's leading run-scorer that season, with 186 runs including 77* made against Surrey Second XI.
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Charlotte Edwards played for East Anglia until the end of the 1999 season, including in the first three seasons of the Women's County Championship, which was instituted in 1997.
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Charlotte Edwards made her maiden List A century in 1996, scoring 113 against East Midlands.
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Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer in the 1998 Women's County Championship, with 394 runs including three centuries.
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Charlotte Edwards captained the side once in her first season, before becoming the regular captain of the side in 2002 until she departed the club at the end of the 2016 season.
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Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer in the Women's County Championship in 2000,2002,2004,2011 and 2014.
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Charlotte Edwards was the leading wicket-taker in the Women's County Championship in 2006, and the leading run-scorer in the Women's Twenty20 Cup in 2010.
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Charlotte Edwards played her final county cricket match, and final match in all cricket, on 17 June 2018 against Somerset in the Twenty20 Cup, where she did not bat or bowl.
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In 2016, Charlotte Edwards was named as captain of Southern Vipers in the inaugural Women's Cricket Super League.
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Charlotte Edwards captained the side again in 2017, her final season playing in the competition, with the Vipers reaching the final but this time losing to Western Storm.
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Charlotte Edwards was the side's leading run-scorer in both seasons she played, as well as scoring a century in both seasons.
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Charlotte Edwards was the side's leading run-scorer in both competitions.
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Charlotte Edwards captained the side, and at the end of the season was named the side's player of the year in both competitions, and awarded the Zoe Goss Medal, for being the outstanding female cricketer in Western Australia.
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Charlotte Edwards was her side's leading run-scorer, and the second-highest across the whole competition, with 462 runs including four half-centuries.
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Charlotte Edwards was South Australia's leading run-scorer in the Women's National Cricket League, with 312 runs including two centuries.
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Charlotte Edwards scored 141 runs at an average of 20.14 in eight matches in the Women's Big Bash League.
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Charlotte Edwards played in the Super Fours, for Diamonds between 2002 and 2012 and for Sapphires in 2013.
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Charlotte Edwards began playing for junior England sides in 1992, and played for the side at Under-20, Under-21 and Under-23 level.
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Charlotte Edwards made her international debut on 12 July 1996, for England against New Zealand in a Test match at Guildford.
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Charlotte Edwards scored 34 in the first innings and 31 in the second innings, opening the batting both times.
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Charlotte Edwards next played for England against South Africa in 1997, making her Women's One Day International debut in the first match of the series on 15 August.
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Charlotte Edwards next played in the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup in India and, in England's third match of the tournament and a day short of her 18th birthday, scored a then-record WODI score of 173* against Ireland.
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In 1998, Charlotte Edwards played against Australia, and scored three half-centuries in the three Test series, with a high score of 87.
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Charlotte Edwards next played against India in 1999, and scored her maiden Test century in the only Test match, with 108 from 249 deliveries.
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Charlotte Edwards was, and remains, the second youngest player to hit a Women's Test match century, at 19 years and 210 days.
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Charlotte Edwards toured Australia and New Zealand with England in early 2000, scoring two half-centuries in the WODI series against Australia.
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At the 2000 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand, Charlotte Edwards made her third WODI century, scoring 139* against the Netherlands.
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In 2001, Charlotte Edwards obtained a cruciate ligament injury to her right knee, requiring surgery, which meant that she missed the whole season.
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Charlotte Edwards returned to play for England for the 2002 Women's Tri-Series.
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Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer at the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup, with 280 runs including a high score of 99 against South Africa.
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Charlotte Edwards helped England win the Women's Ashes in 2005, including top-scoring with 69 in the first innings of the first Test match.
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Clare Connor retired from international cricket in March 2006, with Charlotte Edwards named as her permanent replacement.
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Charlotte Edwards scored a century in the second innings of the 2nd Test match, with 105 as her side followed-on.
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In early 2008, Charlotte Edwards led the side in a Women's Ashes series for the first time, on England's tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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The side won the one-off Test match to defend the Ashes, with Charlotte Edwards scoring 94 in the first innings and hitting the winning runs in the second.
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Charlotte Edwards was the side's leading run-scorer in the drawn WODI series.
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Charlotte Edwards played her 100th WODI in the 4th match of the series, in which she hit 70* to help her side to a 7-wicket victory.
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In March 2009, Charlotte Edwards led England at a World Cup for the first time.
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Charlotte Edwards was named as captain of the team of the tournament at the end of the World Cup.
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Charlotte Edwards scored 61* in England's opening match of the tournament, helping her side to a 10-wicket victory over India.
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Two days later, it was announced that Charlotte Edwards had received an MBE for her services to cricket.
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Charlotte Edwards scored just 9 in the final at Lord's, against New Zealand, but England were victorious by 6 wickets with three overs to spare.
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Charlotte Edwards was absent for part of the WODI series, but scored a half-century in the fourth match of the series.
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In 2010, Charlotte Edwards led England in their disappointing 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20 campaign, as they exited in the group stage.
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Charlotte Edwards scored one half-century against the touring New Zealand side later that summer, scoring 70 in England's 1-wicket victory in the first WODI.
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Charlotte Edwards scored 72 in a one-off ODI against Ireland.
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In November 2010, England toured Sri Lanka, and in the 2nd WODI Charlotte Edwards became the most-capped WODI player, with 142 caps, breaking the record of Karen Rolton.
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In England's series against Australia later that winter, Charlotte Edwards made her first Test century in the Ashes, scoring 114*.
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Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer in the WODI series, scoring two half-centuries.
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In May 2012, Charlotte Edwards was appointed to the world cricket committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club, becoming the first woman to be appointed to the body.
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Charlotte Edwards began the playing summer of 2012 by scoring 72* in a one-off WT20I against Ireland.
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Charlotte Edwards top-scored in both the semi-final and final for England, and scoring 50* in England's group stage victory over India.
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Charlotte Edwards ended the tournament as the leading run-scorer across the competition, with 172 runs, and was named Player of the Tournament.
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Charlotte Edwards scored two centuries in the tournament, 109 against India in the Group Stage and 106* in the 3rd Place Play-off against New Zealand.
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Charlotte Edwards ended the tournament as the third-highest run-scorer across the competition, with 292 runs.
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At the start of the 2013 summer, Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer in England's WODI series victory against Pakistan.
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Charlotte Edwards then led England into the 2013 Women's Ashes series against Australia.
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England won the series, which was decided on a points-based system for the first time, with Charlotte Edwards scoring two half-centuries in the WODI series.
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Charlotte Edwards scored a half-century in the only Test match, and made her WT20I career high score in the first WT20I, with 92* in an England 9-wicket victory.
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Charlotte Edwards was the fourth-highest run-scorer across the competition, with a high score of 80 in England's victory over Bangladesh.
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In May 2014, Charlotte Edwards received one of the first 18 ECB central contracts, becoming one of the first English professional woman cricketers.
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Charlotte Edwards scored 108* in the 2nd WODI against India, and half-centuries in two of the WT20Is against South Africa.
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In June 2014, Charlotte Edwards was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for service to cricket.
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Charlotte Edwards passed fifty once in the series, in the second WODI.
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Charlotte Edwards was the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament, with 202 runs including half-centuries against Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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Charlotte Edwards was replaced as England captain by Heather Knight.
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Charlotte Edwards ended her international career with 309 appearances for England across all formats: 23 in Tests, 191 in ODIs and 95 in T20Is.
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Charlotte Edwards was England's second-leading run-scorer in Women's Test matches, and all-time leading run-scorer in both WODIs and WT20Is.
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Charlotte Edwards was the first player to score 2,000 runs in WT20Is.
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In October 2017, it was announced that Charlotte Edwards was returning to her previous playing side Adelaide Strikers in the Women's Big Bash League as an Assistant Coach.
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In July 2020, following reforms to the structure of domestic women's cricket in England, Charlotte Edwards became Head Coach of Southern Vipers.
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Charlotte Edwards led the side to winning the inaugural Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy in her first season with the side, and won the title again in 2021.
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Charlotte Edwards became coach of Southern Brave's women's side ahead of the inaugural season of The Hundred in 2021.
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In February 2023, it was announced that Charlotte Edwards would be the Head Coach of Mumbai Indians in the Women's Premier League.