Sophie Ecclestone is an English cricketer who plays for the England women’s cricket team. He also played for Lancashire, North West Thunder, Manchester Original and Sydney Sixers.
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Sophie Ecclestone was born on Thursday 6 May 1999 (age 24; as of 2023) in Chester, Cheshire, England. His zodiac sign is Taurus. He grew up playing cricket and other outdoor sports with his older brother James and father in the Cheshire village of Helsby. It was James who taught him how to play football and cricket. He received his formal cricket training at Alvanley Cricket Club in Helsby under coach Robin Fisher, where his father was the junior coordinator. He attended Helsby High School.
Sophie Ecclestone (bottom row, second left) with team-mates in the junior section at Alvanley Cricket Club
At the age of 17, Ecclestone was in contention to play for England as the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup approached. However, he had one more round of exams to pass before graduating. Therefore, his parents and then England manager Mark Robinson decided that he would not play for England that summer.
Physical appearance
Height: 5′ 11″
Hair color: medium blonde
Eye color: light gray
family
parents and siblings
His father, Paul Ecclestone, was the junior co-ordinator at Alvanley Cricket Club. His mother’s name is Elaine Ecclestone. He has a brother, James Ecclestone.
Sophie Ecclestone with her parents
Sophie Ecclestone with her brother James Ecclestone
husband
He is unmarried.
groom
Sophie Ecclestone is engaged to Craig Hitchcock in 2021.
Craig Hitchcock proposed to Sophie Ecclestone
Career
Domestic
He joined Alvanley Cricket Club at the age of 7. Ecclestone went through the under-13, under-15 and under-17 teams before making her debut for Cheshire’s women’s county team in 2013. She later joined the Lancashire women’s cricket team and made her first-class debut against Nottinghamshire in the Women’s Super League. (Also called Kia Super League).
International
After a good run at domestic level, he quickly made it into the England academy team. He was also in England’s development program before being selected for the England Academy Winter Squad in 2016, where he toured Sri Lanka. During this tour, he took 16 wickets for the Academy in three series against Australia A and Sri Lanka A, including four wickets against the latter team at Panagoda. On 3 July 2016, she made her international T20I debut against Pakistan at the County Ground in Bristol during Pakistan Women’s tour of England. During the match, he took his first wicket with a full toss.
England captain Heather Knight presents her cap to Sophie Ecclestone ahead of the Twenty20 match against Pakistan in Bristol.
On 8 October 2016, she made her ODI debut against West Indies Women at Trelawny Stadium, Jamaica, during England Women’s tour of the West Indies. He played a major role in the team’s victory. On 9 November 2017, she made her Test debut against Australia Women at North Sydney Oval in the 2017/18 Sydney Women’s Ashes. In 2017, Ecclestone won the Lancashire Cricket Board Young Player of the Year award. She has been named in the England squad for the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20. England reached the final of the tournament; However, they lost to Australia. She took 10 wickets in 5 matches in the 2018 England Women’s Tri-Nation series involving South Africa and New Zealand. England won the series. Ecclestone, as the highest wicket-taker, was named player of the series.
Sophie Ecclestone bowling in England’s T20 tri-series against New Zealand (2018)
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) gave him a full central contract in February 2019. That same year, the ECB named her in England’s squad for the opening match against Australia to compete in the Women’s Ashes. In January 2020, she was named in the England squad for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia. On 1 March 2020, amid the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, she became the youngest woman to take 50 wickets in WT20I cricket, which she achieved in 34 matches; It was also his 100th wicket in international cricket. She became the world’s number one bowler in Women’s Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket at the end of the World Cup with a wicket average of 6.12 and an economy rate of just 3.23 in eight tournaments. In December 2021, Ecclestone was named in the England squad to tour Australia to compete in the Women’s Ashes. In February 2022, she was named in the England squad for the 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand, where her phenomenal performances saw her become the world’s number one bowler in women’s ODIs. He finished the tournament as the leading wicket taker. On 31 March 2022, Ecclestone took six wickets in WODIs in the World Cup semi-final match against South Africa, 6/36.
Sophie Ecclestone in action during the semi-final against South Africa, 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand
In July 2022, he was named in the England squad for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
Women’s T20 Challenge
In 2020, she represented the Trailblazers in the Women’s T20 Challenge, India’s women’s Twenty20 cricket tournament. IPL Trailblazers beat IPL Supernovas by 16 runs in the final to win their maiden title.
Sophie Ecclestone as a Trailblazers player during a match against Team Velocity in the Women’s T20 Challenge (2020)
In the 2022 Women’s T20 Challenge, she played for the IPL Supernovas who beat IPL Velocity by 4 runs in the final.
FairBreak Invitational T20
He represented Team Spirit at the 2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 tournament. He was the highest wicket taker of the tournament. Tornadoes won the tournament, defeating Falcons by 8 wickets in the final.
Sophie Ecclestone as part of Team Spirit at the 2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 tournament
A hundred
He was bought by Manchester United for The Hundred’s 2022 season in April 2022.
Sophie Ecclestone will represent Manchester Originals in the 2022 season of The Hundred
Women’s Premier League (WPL)
In 2023, she was signed by UP Warriorz of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) for Rs 1.8 crore.
Awards, honors, achievements
- In December 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) named him the Player of the Year.
- In 2020, Sophie Ecclestone became the youngest woman to take 50 wickets in 20 internationals.
- Ecclestone has been named the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for June 2021.
the chosen ones
- Football club: Everton FC
- Player: Dominic Calvert-Lewin
- Cricket Stadium: Emirates Old Trafford in Stratford, England
- Movie series: Harry Potter
Facts/Trivia
- His batting style is right-arm bat and his bowling style is slow left-arm orthodox.
- In 2022 Alvanley Cricket Club made Sophie Ecclestone a life member.
- Sophie Ecclestone has a dog named Rex.
- In 2020, at the age of just 20, he became the world’s number one T20I bowler. Ecclestone was the first English bowler to receive the award since Anya Shrusoly in 2016 and the first English spinner to do so since Daniel Hazell in 2015.
- A football fanatic, he enthusiastically supports Everton Football Club.
- Her England Women’s shirt number is #19.
- During one of the informal cricket matches he played, he sent all the boys of the opposition team packing. Not only that, he hit the school principal on the very first ball. Speaking about the same in an interview, he said:
I got him off the first ball – I smashed all three stumps down the ground,” recalls the left-arm spinner. “He was a bit surprised. I don’t think he expected a girl to come to the club at all – he certainly didn’t realize I could actually play cricket. All the boys were laughing.”
- In an interview, he said that if he hadn’t become a cricketer, he would have become a PT teacher.
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