hayley matthews Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
hayley matthews is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Hayley Kristen Matthews
Born
March 19, 1998
Age
25 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Teams he has played for:
- Barbados Royals Women
- Barbados Women
- Melbourne Renegades Women
- Mumbai Indians Women
- Trailblazers
- Velocity
- Warriors Women
- Welsh Fire (Women)
- West Indies Women
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Her extraordinary rise continued when she captained the boys Under-13 team - the first female to do so. Her international debut came at the age of 16 in a T20I game against New Zealand in 2014 and soon later that year, she made her ODI debut too.
Matthews was a key member of the 2016 World Twenty20 which West Indies won and shone in the final making a 45-ball 66. In the 2015-16 season Matthews played domestic cricket in Australia and also featured in the inaugural season of the Women's Big Bash League for Hobart Hurricanes.
In 2018, Matthews was named as the vice-captain of West Indies ahead of the World Twenty20.
Controversy though followed when Matthews was handed an eight-match ban in September 2019 prior to the Australia series by a six-member CWI Disciplinary Tribunal for breaching Cricket West Indies' Code of Conduct for an alleged incident post a training session. But she soon made her comeback once the ban ended.
Matthews opens for West Indies and bowls offbreaks making her an integral part of the current team. She wants more women cricketers to play alongside males in junior-level cricket as it helps them gain more exposure to high-level cricket at a young age. She has the distinction of batting alongside Shai Hope and has used Carlos Brathwaite's brand of cricket equipment. Matthews still keeps in touch with most of the male players she captained at Under-13 level.
Interesting facts about Matthews:
Matthews started off as an athlete and competed in the javelin throw for Barbados. In the 2015 CARIFTA Games she won her first gold medal, again competing in the under-18 category.
Even though she dabbled in both track and field and cricket, she eventually chose the latter.
At the age of 18, Matthews had already played in the Men's First Division, alongside Shai Hope.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
By the time she was 11, Hayley Matthews was captaining her boys school team; by the time she was 12, she had made her debut for the Barbados senior women's team. Faced with a choice between track and field and cricket - she won a gold medal for javelin at the 2015 CARIFTA Games - Matthews, fortunately for West Indies, chose cricket, and subsequently made her international debut in September 2014 in a Twenty20 against New Zealand.
Her ODI debut, against Australia, swiftly followed, and Matthews impressed right from the outset, making 55 in the first game and a total of 241 runs - the highest for West Indies - in the four-match series. Her offbreaks also proved effective: her first international wicket, in the first T20I of the tour of Australia, was Meg Lanning, and she went on to take 3 for 26 in that game. Matthews was the highest wicket-taker from either side in both the ODIs and T20Is during West Indies' 2015 tour of Sri Lanka.
She was a surprise selection in the inaugural Women's Big Bash League, sought after by Hobart Hurricanes as one of their overseas players; her standout performance in the competition was a 51-ball 77 against Melbourne Stars, but more importantly, she worked with coach Julia Price and gained invaluable experience against international opponents.
It was an undertaking that was to serve her well in the 2016 Women's World T20, where she would make her name. Matthews made her most telling performance in the final, where West Indies were up against three-time champions Australia. Having had her 18th birthday in the middle of the tournament, Matthews took on the Australian bowlers with the audacity of youth, hitting 66 off 45 balls to help her team chase down 149 and win their first world title.
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