suzie bates Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
suzie bates is a cricketer(sportsman) from New Zealand. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Suzannah Wilson Bates
Born
September 16, 1987, Dunedin, Otago
Age
36 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Allrounder
Teams he has played for:
- Adelaide Strikers Women
- Falcons Women
- Guyana Amazon Warriors Women
- New Zealand Women
- Otago Women
- Oval Invincibles (Women)
- Perth Scorchers Women
- Sydney Sixers Women
- Trailblazers
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
She came into the limelight when she crunched a knock of 183 off 152 for Otago against Auckland in the State League in the 2005-06 season. And that innings propelled her into the national consciousness as she was subsequently picked to play for New Zealand in ODIs against India in 2005-06 and the T20I debut the next year against South Africa.
Bates is a big match player. She ups her game during the mega events, especially in World Cups. During the 2009 World Cup, she smashed 168, the third highest ODI score ever at that time in women's cricket. In the 2013 World Cup, Bates amassed 407 runs and won the player of the tournament award, which also led to her winning the Women's ODI cricketer of the year.
The right-hand batter took over the captaincy reins in 2011 and has since done a successful job of leading the New Zealand Women's side. The role has not harmed her batting, in fact, it has brought the best out of her. Apart from winning the ODI cricketer of the year in 2013, Bates did the double in 2015, claiming the ODI and T20I cricketer of the year.
She is also one of the first women to consider herself as a full-time cricketer, when New Zealand Cricket gave her a central contract in 2013.
Bates is set to play her third World Cup in 2017 and will be leading a strong New Zealand side in the mega-event. During White Ferns' second game against South Africa, Bates will complete 100 ODIs, becoming only the eight cricket in New Zealand to achieve the feat and joins a list of greats - Debbie Hockley, Sara McGlashan, Amy Watkins.
Known for her aggressive nature with the bat, Bates is a certainty in most of the T20 sides. Add her handy medium pace and she becomes the most valuable cricketer and hence roped in by Perth Scorchers for the Women's Big Bash League, where she almost led them to the title in the second season, falling short to Sydney Sixers in the final by seven runs.
Interestingly, she has also represented the New Zealand basketball team during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Bates only gave up basketball when she was offered the role of captain in 2011, till then she was a double international.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Born in 1987 in Dunedin, Suzie Bates learned cricket in the back yard with her two older brothers. Much of her early club cricket days were spent playing alongside boys; however, she was "spotted" playing in a national competition for the Otago Girls' High School. By the time she was 15, she was representing the Otago Sparks in New Zealand's national women's cricket league.
A batting allrounder who plays in the top order, Bates made her international debut in 2006 against India, and has been smashing records ever since. She scored her first ODI century at the age of just 19 and was an instrumental part of New Zealand Women's 2009 World Cup campaign, where they made the final ahead of hosts Australia. Bates took 4 for 7 with her medium pace in the group match against South Africa, but the highlight was her innings against Pakistan: a glorious 168 off 105 balls that included six sixes - the joint fourth-highest score ever in women's ODIs.
Bates initially juggled two sports, representing New Zealand in basketball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. However, basketball has taken a back seat since she was offered captaincy of the White Ferns in July 2011.
One of standout aspects of Bates' captaincy has been the lack of impact it has had on her batting. In the 2013 World Cup, despite her side's fourth-place finish, she was named Player of the Tournament; later that year, she was named the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year.
Bates scored an unbeaten 94 off 61 balls against Pakistan in the 2014 World Twenty20 - the highest score by a New Zealander in women's T20Is. In the same year, she was selected to captain the Rest of the World, against MCC Women at Lord's.
At 5-foot-8, with an athletic body honed on the basketball field, the attacking style comes more naturally to Bates than most. She spent 2015 consolidating her status as one of the power hitters of the women's game, averaging 129 in New Zealand's ODI series against Sri Lanka in November, which they swept 5-0. Her good form continued in the three-match T20 series - which also ended in a whitewash for Sri Lanka - where she averaged 52.50. Bates ended 2015 fourth on the list of all-time run-scorers in women's T20Is and was subsequently named Wisden's Leading Women's Cricketer in the World.
Bates is among the first women from New Zealand able to consider herself a full-time cricketer, having been awarded one of the inaugural female contracts by New Zealand Cricket in April 2013. More recently, she was selected for the Women's Big Bash League and the Kia Super League.
Raf Nicholson