sophie devine Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
sophie devine is a cricketer(sportsman) from New Zealand. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Sophie Frances Monique Devine
Born
September 01, 1989, Wellington
Age
34 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Batting Allrounder
Teams he has played for:
- Adelaide Strikers Women
- Birmingham Phoenix (Women)
- Guyana Amazon Warriors Women
- New Zealand Women
- Perth Scorchers Women
- Royal Challengers Bangalore Women
- Supernovas
- Tornadoes Women
- Wellington Women
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Devine was born in Porirua, New Zealand and grew up in Wellington before he father was transferred on work to Christchurch. However, she turns up domestically for Wellington. During her final year in college, Devine was awarded a 'wicket' for scalping the most number of wickets in the season - an award that had been won by New Zealand fast bowler Mark Gillespie the previous year.
Starting as a seam bowler, Devine like many of her peers shifted her focus towards batting. Picked as a 17-year-old for the White Ferns side in 2006, Devine needed almost four years to cement a place in the national side. A couple fifties in 2010 had been recorded, but nothing substantial.
The breakout season came in 2015 when she scored a magnificent 145 against South Africa in the Women's World Cup opener in India. That set her on the path to greatness. Devine has been consistent since then and a key member of the White Ferns side along with Suzie Bates and Amy Satterthwaite.
Devine also holds the dubious record of scoring the fastest fifty in Women's Twenty20 International (WT20Is). The blistering knock came off 18 balls against India at the batting paradise in Bengaluru. She went on and finished with a 70 off 22 balls.
The right-hander medium pacer in her never really gave up on bowling. She continues to play a vital role and gives her side an extra dimension with the ball. The three allrounders Bates, Devine and Satterthwaite have formed the core of the New Zealand Women's side.
Women's Big Bash team - Adelaide Strikers.
By Akshay Maanay
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
From a bowler who sometimes batted at No. 11, Sophie Devine developed into one of the leading allrounders and most destructive batters in the game. In early 2020 she became the first player, male or female, to score five consecutive T20I fifty-plus scores - a run she extended to six in a row at the beginning of the 2020 T20 World Cup in which she also captained New Zealand.
There were glimpses of what she was capable of with the bat during the first phase of her international career, particularly in T20Is, and she came within a shot of securing a Super Over in the 2010 T20 World Cup final when a fierce straight drive slammed into Ellyse Perry's foot to give Australia the title.
Devine did not play an ODI between July 2010 and February 2013 but it was on her return in the World Cup that things started to take off when she struck an imperious 145 against South Africa in New Zealand's opening match. It would be four years until her next ODI hundred, against Pakistan in 2017, and she went on to make four in 10 innings.
In T20Is it was a promotion to open the batting in 2017 that saw her game go to another level and brought the world-record run of scores that included a maiden century against South Africa. In mid-2020 she was named New Zealand captain on a permanent basis having stepped in when Amy Satterthwaite took leave to have her first child.
On the domestic scene she was a prolific all-rounder performer for the Adelaide Strikers in the WBBL before switching to the Perth Scorchers.
Earlier in her career, Devine also represented New Zealand at hockey.