[18] She became head coach of her former team Southern Vipers in 2020, and led them to the first two Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy titles.

[1][27] Her father, Clive Edwards, played for Huntingdonshire County Cricket Club (as did her uncle Hugh and later her brother Daniel).

[46] After winning the County Championship and Twenty20 Cup double with Kent in 2016, Edwards announced that she was leaving the club.

[49] The Vipers went on to win the competition, with Edwards batting four times in five appearances, with a top score of 30 against Western Storm.

[62] She was South Australia's leading run-scorer in the Women's National Cricket League, with 312 runs including two centuries.

[65] She also took her only career five-wicket haul in the Super Fours, in 2005, taking 5/31 against V Team (the previous name of Sapphires).

[2] She next played for England against South Africa in 1997, making her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut in the first match of the series on 15 August.

[71] At the time, she was the youngest player to score a WODI century, with the record subsequently being broken by Mithali Raj in 1997.

[74] She was, and remains, the second youngest player to hit a Women's Test match century, at 19 years and 210 days.

[33][76] In the summer of 2000, South Africa toured England for five WODIs, with Edwards scoring two half-centuries including 96* in the fourth match.

[77][78] At the 2000 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand, Edwards made her third WODI century, scoring 139* against the Netherlands.

[79] In 2001, Edwards obtained a cruciate ligament injury to her right knee, requiring surgery, which meant that she missed the whole season.

[84][85] Edwards was the leading run-scorer at the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup, with 280 runs including a high score of 99 against South Africa.

[92][93][94] Clare Connor retired from international cricket in March 2006, with Edwards named as her permanent replacement.

[98][99][100][101][102] In early 2008, Edwards led the side in a Women's Ashes series for the first time, on England's tour of Australia and New Zealand.

[103] The side won the one-off Test match to defend the Ashes, with Edwards scoring 94 in the first innings and hitting the winning runs in the second.

[113] Edwards' best performance came against New Zealand in the Super Six round, where she scored her only half-century of the tournament, with 57, as well as taking 4/37 with the ball.

[114] The side reached the final at North Sydney Oval against New Zealand, with England emerging victorious by 4 wickets to win their third World Cup title.

[126][127] In 2010, Edwards led England in their disappointing 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20 campaign, as they exited in the group stage.

[142] Subsequently, she led England to series victories over India, Pakistan and West Indies in the lead-up to the 2012 ICC Women's World Twenty20.

[148] Edwards scored two centuries in the tournament, 109 against India in the Group Stage and 106* in the 3rd Place Play-off against New Zealand.

[154] After a tour of the West Indies in October and November 2013, England again contested the Ashes, this time in Australia.

[157] Edwards was the fourth-highest run-scorer across the competition, with a high score of 80 in England's victory over Bangladesh.

[158][159] In April 2014, in recognition of her achievements in 2013, Edwards was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year, becoming the second woman to be so honoured after Claire Taylor in 2009.

[176][177][178] England's failure at the tournament, with another knockout stages defeat to Australia, was seen as a "line-in-the-sand" moment, with things needing to change in the system.

[13] In October 2017, it was announced that Edwards was returning to her previous playing side Adelaide Strikers in the Women's Big Bash League as an assistant coach.

[18] In July 2020, following reforms to the structure of domestic women's cricket in England, Edwards became head coach of Southern Vipers.

[186] Edwards also became coach of Southern Brave's women's side ahead of the inaugural season of The Hundred in 2021.

[21] The side won a record eleven matches in the group stage of the competition during Edwards' first season in charge, but lost in the final to Adelaide Strikers.

[25] In February 2023, it was announced that Edwards would be the head coach of Mumbai Indians in the Women's Premier League.