Rebecca Layla Blake was born on 13 November 1998 and is a Romanian cricketer and sport scientist who plays for the Romanian women's national cricket team as a right handed batter and offbreak bowler.
13 Facts About Rebecca Blake
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Rebecca Blake is presently the captain of the Romanian team, and has captained the French national team.
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Rebecca Blake was raised in Romania, where she lived until she was nine years old, and in France.
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Rebecca Blake has an England and Wales Cricket Board Level 2 cricket coaching qualification and is qualified as a gym instructor.
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Rebecca Blake soon became the youngest and only girl player, and a regular, in the club's only team, which was otherwise a men's team.
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At the tournament, contested between seven teams, Rebecca Blake opened her account with 30* in France's defeat by host team Germany.
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Along the way, Rebecca Blake made 94 runs and took six wickets in six matches; she was named as the tournament's leading Emerging Player, and was ranked sixth Most Valuable Player from more than 90 participants.
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In 2016, Rebecca Blake was appointed captain of the French team, replacing Sharon Whiting, who had retired.
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When Rebecca Blake moved to England in 2017, she ceased to be eligible for selection in the French team.
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Rebecca Blake was always eligible to play cricket for Romania, but for a long time that country had no women's team.
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On 9 September 2022, Rebecca Blake made her Twenty20 International debut, as captain of the Romanian team against Greece, in the first match of the three team Women's Balkan Cup 2022 tournament at the Moara Vlasiei Cricket Ground, Ilfov County, Romania.
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Rebecca Blake is known to her friends and fellow cricketers as "Becky" or "Becks".
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Rebecca Blake has worked as a part-time cricket coach for Game Changers Coaching, a private coaching business, and for Sandroyd School in Wiltshire, England.