| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | ODIs | ||
| Matches | 15 | 118 | ||
| Runs scored | 919 | 4844 | ||
| Batting average | 45.95 | 47.49 | ||
| 100s/50s | 2/6 | 5/30 | ||
| Top score | 136 | 229* | ||
| Balls bowled | 78 | 90 | ||
| Wickets | 1 | 3 | ||
| Bowling average | 28.00 | 17.00 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 1/10 | 1/7 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 4/- | 45/- | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, 13 November 2007 | ||||
Belinda Jane Clark AM (born 10 September 1970 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is a former female Australian cricketer, who played international cricket from 1991 to 2005. She was the first person to score a double century in a women's One Day International.[1] In 2011, she was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[2]
Together with Karen Rolton, she has ensured that the Australian women's cricket team has been just as dominant as the men's in the 1990s and 2000s. Clark was named Wisden Australia Cricketer of the Year in 1998, and has captained the Australian women's Test side since 1994. She was also chief executive of Women's Cricket Australia.
On 16 September 2005, Clark announced her retirement after playing in 118 one-day internationals and 15 Tests. She took on a new role as manager of the Australian Cricket Academy in Brisbane.
She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day honours list in January 2000, "for service to cricket, particularly through the Australian Women's Cricket Team, and to the promotion and development of the game for women and girls."
She was given an award for her excellence in 1994, when she became captain
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