Nadine Andrea Julietta George MBE was born on 15 October 1968 and is a Jamaican former cricketer who played as a left-handed batter and wicket-keeper.
13 Facts About Nadine George
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Nadine George appeared in 1 Test match, 41 One Day Internationals and 3 Twenty20 Internationals for the West Indies between 2003 and 2008.
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Nadine George was the first West Indian woman cricketer to score a hundred in a Test match, scoring 118 on Test debut against Pakistan in Karachi in the third innings of the only Test on the tour.
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Nadine George played domestic cricket for Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Nadine George kept wicket in her one Test match, where Pakistan notched up a 247-run first-innings lead and asked the West Indies to follow on.
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Nadine George's 118 helped her team to a second-innings total of 440 and Pakistan chose not to attempt the chase of 162 in 23 overs as the match was drawn.
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Nadine George made her ODI debut aged 34 against Sri Lanka, opening the batting and making 16 in a 27-run loss.
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Nadine George was retained for the 2003 IWCC Trophy, played in the Netherlands in July 2003, and made 114 runs at a batting average of 38 as the West Indies won four of five matches and qualified for the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup.
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Nadine George made a new career highest score of 40 in the group match against Netherlands, in which the West Indians got what the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described as a "surprise victory".
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Nadine George made a combined total of 10 runs in the two wins, but was the only one to make it into double figures in the third ODI.
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Nadine George is the oldest captain to play in WT20I history.
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Nadine George is the oldest captain to make captaincy debut in Women's T20I history.
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Nadine George was the first woman cricketer to keep wicket and to open the batting as captain in Women's Twenty20 International history.