Clare Taylor

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Clare Taylor
Personal information
Full name	Clare Elizabeth Taylor
Date of birth	(1965-05-22) 22 May 1965
Place of birth	Huddersfield, England
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position	Sweeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
	Bronte
	Liverpool Ladies
National team
1990–	England
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Clare Taylor

Personal information

Full name

Clare Elizabeth Taylor

Born

22 May 1965
Huddersfield, England

Batting style

Right-handed

Role

Bowler

International information

National side

England

Test debut (cap 18)

17 November 1995 v India women

Last Test

22 August 2003 v South Africa women

ODI debut (cap 53)

5 December 1988 v Ireland women

Last ODI

30 August 2005 v Australia women

Domestic team information

Years

Team

Yorkshire

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	ODI
Matches	16	105
Runs scored	226	303
Batting average	16.14	8.65
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	43	29
Catches/stumpings	5/–	28/–

Source: Cricinfo, 8 February 2011

Clare Elizabeth Taylor MBE (born 22 May 1965) is an English sportswoman, the first woman to have played on a World Cup team in both cricket and football.^[1] She represented England at both cricket, as a member of the winning World Cup cricket team in 1993, and football (World Cup 1995). She was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2000 for her services to women’s sport. Taylor attended Moor End High School and still has her name on the athletics records board.

Football career

Taylor began playing at age 11 and after answering a Women's Football Association advert in Shoot magazine, started playing for Bronte Ladies.^[2] Her England debut came in a 2-0 defeat to Germany in Bochum on 16 December 1990. When Bronte were relegated Taylor moved to Knowsley United, who became Liverpool Ladies shortly after losing the FA Women's Cup final to Doncaster Belles in 1994.^[3] Taylor had joined Knowsley United in preference to the dominant Doncaster Belles because she wanted the challenge of playing for a developing club.^[4]

Taylor's Liverpool were also beaten in the following two season's FA Cup finals, by Arsenal^[5] and Croydon^[6] respectively. In 1993 Taylor had played for Knowsley United in the FA Women's Premier League Cup final at Wembley and for England women's cricket team in the World Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground.^[7]

During her amateur sporting career, Taylor was employed by the Royal Mail. Though she noted: "The amount of time I spend away on unpaid leave has got beyond a joke."^[8] Although Taylor preferred football to cricket, she focused on cricket after being dropped from the England football team.^[4]

References

↑ "England women's squad". BBC Sport. 18 January 2003. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
↑ Davies, Pete (1996). I Lost My Heart To The Belles. London: Mandarin. p. 295. ISBN 0-7493-2085-0.
↑ Rudd, Alyson (25 April 1994). "Football: Belles bring class to bear: Doncaster dominate women's FA Cup final". London: The Independent. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "Clare Taylor Interview". Leeds: The Corridor of Uncertainty. 14 April 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
↑ "Spacey the difference for Arsenal". London: The Independent. 1 May 1995. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
↑ Sarah Forde (29 April 1996). "Croydon spot chance for first cup victory". London: The Times. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
↑ Henry Winter (28 August 1993). "Football diary: Music for penalty arias". London: The Independent. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
↑ Baker, Andrew (24 December 1995). "Taylor takes pleasure in double delivery". London: The Independent.

External links

v t e Bowlers who have taken 100 Women's ODI wickets

Cathryn Fitzpatrick (180) Neetu David (141) Jhulan Goswami (135) Lisa Sthalekar (130) Clare Taylor (102) Isa Guha (100)

v t e England squad – 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup

1 Cope 2 Powell 3 Mapes 4 Britton 5 Taylor 6 Coultard 7 Spacey 8 Bampton (c) 9 Farley 10 Burke 11 Sempare 12 Davis 13 Higgs 14 Walker 15 Williams 16 Smith 17 Waller 18 Phillip 19 Fletcher 20 Easton Coach: Copeland

v t e England squad – 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup

1 Smithies (c) 2 Brittin 3 Cassar 4 Connor 5 Daniels 6 Edwards 7 Leng 8 Metcalfe 9 Newton 10 Nicholson 11 Plimmer 12 Redfern 13 Reynard 14 Taylor

v t e England squad – 2000 Women's Cricket World Cup

1 Connor (c) 2 Cassar 3 Collyer 4 Daniels 5 Edwards 6 Harper 7 Holden 8 Leng 9 Pearson 10 Reynard 11 Shaw 12 CE Taylor 13 SC Taylor Coach: Farbrace

v t e England squad – 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup

1 Connor (c) 2 Birch 3 Brindle 4 Brunt 5 Edwards 6 Greenway 7 Guha 8 Gunn 9 Morgan 10 Newton 11 Pearson 12 Shaw 13 Smit 14 CE Taylor 15 SC Taylor

Persondata
Name	Taylor, Clare
Alternative names
Short description	Cricketer and footballer
Date of birth	22 May 1965
Place of birth	Huddersfield
Date of death
Place of death

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