Bronwyn Lianne Calver (born 22 September 1969 in Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria)[1] is a former Australian cricketer who played as an all-rounder for the national team.
[2][3] On some weekends in the early 1980s, she would participate in a junior boys' game and in lower-grade men's cricket on the Saturday, and then take part in the schoolgirls' and senior women's competitions on the Sunday.
In 1981, the two of them even co-opted her then 69 year old grandmother, Lily, who did not have a cricket background, to make up the numbers and avoid a forfeiture, in a match in which they all played for Northern Suburbs DCC team against Braddon Catholic Girls High School.
[7] Calver played her first international match in 1991 against New Zealand at Bellerive Oval, Hobart, as a late replacement for the Australian team captain, Lyn Larsen, who was suffering from food poisoning.
[2] Four years later, in 1997, at the peak of her career, she played a major role in Australia's atonement for its 1993 let-down: the team's victory in the 1997 World Cup final at Eden Gardens in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India.
"[2] The following year, 1998, Calver compressed her three-Test career into as many weeks in the inaugural Women's Ashes, an anticlimactic series of three rain-affected draws on lifeless English pitches.
After a couple of further seasons playing for New South Wales, she reversed her decision and contacted the chair of selectors in the aftermath of Australia's loss in the 2000 World Cup final, but did not hear anything back.
[2] At the age of 38, several years after ending her top level cricket career, Calver took up Australian rules football playing for the Gungahlin Jets.
[3] In 2013, she was a member of the team that won the inaugural ACT indoor cricket title, for which the prize was the similarly aptly-named Bronwyn Calver Cup.
In November 2019, she was a member of the undefeated NSW Blues team in the precursor to the Over 40s Women's national championships played at Bradman Oval in Bowral.
In the accident, she suffered a knee injury that required multiple stitches; the kangaroo, which appeared to be dazed and "disoriented" by the impact, died soon afterwards when it was struck by a passing car.