Suzannah Wilson Bates was born on 16 September 1987 and is a New Zealand cricketer and former captain of national women cricket team.
13 Facts About Suzie Bates
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Suzie Bates currently holds the highest score and highest batting average in the New Zealand Women's Twenty20 cricket team.
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Suzie Bates won the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year 2013.
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Suzie Bates again won ICC Women's ODI and T20I Cricketer of the Year 2016.
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Suzie Bates represented New Zealand in Women's basketball during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Suzie Bates joined the Otago Nuggets as an assistant coach for the 2021 New Zealand NBL season.
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On 20 June 2018, during the match against South Africa Women in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series, Suzie Bates scored her first century in WT20I cricket.
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Suzie Bates was the leading run-scorer for New Zealand in the tournament, with 161 runs in four matches.
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In September 2020, in the first match against Australia, Suzie Bates took her 50th wicket in WT20I cricket.
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In November 2020, Suzie Bates was nominated for the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade, and the award for women's ODI cricketer of the decade.
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In June 2022, Suzie Bates was named in New Zealand's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
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Suzie Bates had scored a single Women's Twenty20 International century.
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Suzie Bates became the sole holder of the record for the most Women's ODI centuries by a New Zealander, which she had previously shared with Debbie Hockley, in October 2013, when she recorded her fifth century, a score of 110 against the West Indies at Sabina Park, Jamaica.