12 Facts About Nicole Bolton

Nicole Elizabeth Bolton is an Australian former cricketer who played as a left-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler for Australia and a number of domestic teams in Australia, New Zealand and England.

Nicole Bolton played at junior level for the Subiaco Marist Cricket Club.

From 2008 to 2011, Nicole Bolton studied for a Bachelor of Event, Sport and Recreation Management at Edith Cowan University.

Nicole Bolton made her international debut on 23 January 2014, when she scored 124 runs off 152 balls.

Nicole Bolton joined Victoria in 2014 but returned to Western Australia in 2015.

Nicole Bolton returned to the Australian squad, after taking a five-month break from the game dealing with a mental health issue.

In October 2021, Nicole Bolton announced her retirement from playing state cricket.

On 23 January 2014, Nicole Bolton scored a century during her international debut, in a Women's Ashes multiple format series One Day International match against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Nicole Bolton was the first Australian woman to score a century on ODI debut, and the first woman of any nationality to score such a century against a team fielded by a Full Member of the International Cricket Council.

Subsequently, Nicole Bolton scored three other ODI centuries, against three other Full Member teams, in three other countries.

At the time of her retirement as a player for Western Australia in 2021, Nicole Bolton made a conscious decision to avoid becoming a cricket coach immediately.

In December 2022, Nicole Bolton was invited by Luke Williams, coach of South Australia and Adelaide Strikers, to become the assistant coach of those teams from June 2023, in place of Jude Coleman, who had been appointed as head coach of Tasmania.