Katherine Sciver-Brunt

Katherine Helen Sciver-Brunt OBE (née Brunt; born 2 July 1985) is an English former cricketer who played as a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed lower-order batter.

She was Player of the Match in the 2009 Twenty20 World championship final at Lords, taking 3 wickets for 6 runs in her 4 over opening spell[7] and took a career best 6 for 69 in the one off Ashes Test which followed.

Her best figures in one day internationals came in the final of the 2011 NatWest Women's Quadrangular Series where her 5 for 18 bowled England to victory over Australia.

[15] In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for 2019.

[16][17] In June 2019, the ECB named her in England's squad for their opening match against Australia to contest the Women's Ashes.

[21] On 18 June 2020, Brunt was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training ahead of international women's fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2015, she explained to sports journalist Clare Balding that she is known as Nunny because she had set off a fire alarm during a residential cricket course at the Benedictine-run Ampleforth College.

Brunt bowling for Perth Scorchers , 2015
Brunt batting for Perth Scorchers, 2017