Mel Jones

Mel Jones
Personal information
Full name Melanie Jones
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm Medium pace
International information
National side
  • Australia
Test debut (cap 134) 6 August 1998 v England women
Last Test 22 February 2003 v England women
ODI debut (cap 82) 7 February 1997 v Pakistan women
Last ODI 10 April 2005 v India women
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1996/97 - 2008/09 Victorian Spirit
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI LA WNCL
Matches 5 61 208 122
Runs scored 251 1028 4893 3338
Batting average 35.85 21.41 28.44 30.34
100s/50s 1/1 0/4 1/29 0/21
Top score 131 58 124 95
Balls bowled 6 13 216 162
Wickets 0 0 2 2
Bowling average - - 90.00 64.00
5 wickets in innings - - 0 0
10 wickets in match - - 0 0
Best bowling - - 1/3 1/3
Catches/stumpings 3/– 15/– 73/– 45/–
Source: CricInfo, 20 June 2014
Jones during the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup

Melanie Jones (born 11 August 1972, Barnstaple, Devon, England) is a former Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, she played 5 Test matches for Australia between 1998 and 2003, scoring 251 runs, highlighted by a 131 on debut against England in August 1998.[1] Jones was the 134th women to play Test cricket for Australia.[2] She has also played 61 One Day Internationals for Australia, scoring 1028 runs with an average in the low-twenties.[3]

Jones played limited overs cricket in England for the now defunct Lancashire and Cheshire Women cricket team between 1994 and 1997 and the Surrey County women's cricket team between 2003 and 2004.[4] She played 122 games for the Victorian Spirit in the Australian Women's National Cricket League, and then five Women's Twenty20 cricket games for the Tasmanian Roar.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "England Women v Australia Women". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  2. ↑ "Mel Jones (Player #152)". southernstars.org.au. Cricket Australia. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Player Profile: Mel Jones". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  4. ↑ "CricketArchive - Teams Melanie Jones Played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Melanie Jones - CricketArchive". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 June 2014.

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