Alex MacDonald (cricketer)

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Alex MacDonald
Personal information
Full nameAlexandra Louise MacDonald
Born (1991-10-03) 3 October 1991 (age 29)
Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleAll-rounder
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2008–2014Gloucestershire
2014–2015Yorkshire
2016Staffordshire
2016Loughborough Lightning
2017Gloucestershire
2019–presentYorkshire
2020–presentNorthern Diamonds
2021–presentNorth Representative XI
Career statistics
Competition WLA WT20
Matches 61 39
Runs scored 1,648 668
Batting average 38.32 22.26
100s/50s 2/11 0/4
Top score 117* 71*
Balls bowled 1,940 537
Wickets 44 21
Bowling average 21.18 21.38
5 wickets in innings 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 5/12 4/28
Catches/stumpings 25/– 13/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 March 2021

Alexandra Louise MacDonald (born 3 October 1991) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Yorkshire, North Representative XI and Northern Diamonds. An all-rounder, she is a left-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. She previously played for Gloucestershire and Staffordshire.[1][2]

Early life[]

MacDonald was born on 3 October 1991 in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London.[2]

Domestic career[]

County cricket[]

MacDonald made her county debut in 2008, for Gloucestershire against Dorset, in which she scored 34 in a 216 run victory.[3] She took her maiden county five-wicket haul a year later, taking 5/12 against Dorset, as well as scoring her first county half-century the same season, with 59 against Wiltshire.[4][5] She played for Gloucestershire until the 2014 season, with her best season coming in 2013, when she hit 468 runs in the County Championship, the third highest overall, with 1 century and 4 half-centuries.[6]

MacDonald played for Yorkshire in the 2014 Women's Twenty20 Cup, and was their leading run-scorer in the competition, with 193 runs including her Twenty20 high score of 71*.[7] She also played one match for Gloucestershire in the 2014 Women's County Championship, in which she hit her highest List A score, of 117*.[8] She played one more season for Yorkshire, in 2015, in which she took her Twenty20 best bowling figures of 4/28.[9]

In 2016, MacDonald played one season for Staffordshire, in which she was most successful in the 2016 Women's Twenty20 Cup, scoring 99 runs at an average of 24.75.[10] In 2017, she returned to Gloucestershire for one match, in which she hit 81 against Essex.[11]

After a season's break, MacDonald returned to Yorkshire for the 2019 season, and was most successful with the ball in the Twenty20 Cup, taking 8 wickets at an average of 7.62.[12] In 2021, MacDonald was named as part of the Yorkshire contingent of the North Representative XI squad for the Twenty20 Cup.[13]

Regional cricket[]

MacDonald was also in the Loughborough Lightning squad for the 2016 Women's Cricket Super League, but did not play a match.[14]

In 2020, MacDonald played for Northern Diamonds in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She appeared in seven matches as the side reached the final, scoring 122 runs at an average of 20.33 and taking 4 wickets at an average of 20.25.[15][16] Her high score for the side came in a match against North West Thunder, in which she scored 92 to bring the team within one win of the final.[17]

References[]

  1. ^ "Player Profile: Alex MacDonald". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Player Profile: Alex MacDonald". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Gloucestershire Women v Dorset Women, 2 May 2008". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Gloucestershire Women v Devon Women, 3 May 2009". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Gloucestershire Women v Wiltshire Women, 16 August 2009". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2013 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Batting and Fielding for Yorkshire Women/ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup 2014". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Gloucestershire Women v Scotland Women, 27 July 2014". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  9. ^ "Surrey Women v Yorkshire Women, 14 June 2015". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Batting and Fielding for Staffordshire Women/NatWest Women's Twenty20 Cup 2016". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Gloucestershire Women v Essex Women, 27 August 2017". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Bowling for Yorkshire Women/Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup 2019". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  13. ^ "Lancashire set for Vitality Women's County T20". Lancashire Cricket. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  14. ^ "Georgia Elwiss to captain Loughborough Lightning". 4 The Love of Sport. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Batting and Fielding for Northern Diamonds/Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy 2020". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  16. ^ "Bowling for Northern Diamonds/Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy 2020". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  17. ^ "Alex MacDonald's 92 sets up Northern Diamonds victory over North West Thunder". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 27 March 2021.

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