Sarah Joy Andrews (born 26 December 1981) is a retired female cricketer who played for Australia from 2006 to early 2010.

[1] After playing in the Second XI in 2000–01, Andrews made her debut for New South Wales in the 2001–02 Women's National Cricket League (WNCL).

She was then dropped for the home series against India at the start of the 2008–09 season and was responded by taking 13 wickets in the WNCL to earn a recall.

In the subsequent bilateral series hosted by England, Andrews took her career best figures of 4/50 and ended with eight ODI wickets.

[2] Andrews made her senior debut for New South Wales in the 2001–02 Women's National Cricket League, playing in seven matches, all of which ended in victory.

[2] At the end of the summer, she played for the Australian Under-23 team against England; she took a total of 0/47 from 19 overs in a two-innings match and scored 21 in Australia's only innings.

[2] In the deciding final, she was taken out of the attack after being hit for 17 runs in three overs; New South Wales ended up winning by three wickets to regain the WNCL title.

[2] Before the 2004–05 season started, Andrews toured Sri Lanka in September as part of the Australian Under-23s to play against the hosts' national team.

[2] Andrews had a quiet and ineffective 2004–05 WNCL season, taking only five wickets at 44.80 at an economy rate of 3.01 from ten matches.

The second match saw a fightback from the Victorian bowlers, who dismissed New South Wales for 71, Andrews making 19 not out in a tail-wagging performance.

She then took 1/18, taking the final wicket by bowling Megan White as New South Wales took a thrilling two-run win,[3] sealing the WNCL title.

[2] Andrews was rewarded with selection for Australia for the home series against India held in Adelaide at the end of the season.

In the following over, without further addition to the score, Andrews took her maiden Test catch to dismiss leading Indian batsman and captain Mithali Raj from the bowling of Fitzpatrick.

[6][7] At the start of the 2006–07 season, Andrews made her Twenty20 international debut against New Zealand at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane, having never played in the format at domestic level.

Andrews came in upon the fall of the eighth wicket and scored two from three balls before being run out, but Karen Rolton and Clea Smith saw Australia to victory.

In the fourth match of the tournament, against Queensland, she made a tail-wagging 16 and took 3/27 from her ten overs, but was not able to defend New South Wales' meagre 9/162 as they lost by six wickets.

In the sixth match, she made an unbeaten 13 help New South Wales scrape home by two wickets against Western Australia.

New South Wales struggled in the run-chase and Andrews made 17 in the lower order before the defending champions scraped home by one wicket.

In the deciding match, Andrews took 2/40 to help restrict Victoria to 7/205 and then made one as New South Wales took a hard-fought three-wicket win and a second consecutive WNCL title.

[2] After the end of the Australian season, Andrews was selected for the ODI team for a four-nations tournament in Chennai, India.

Australia had won all four matches in which Andrews had played, but she was expensive, taking three wickets at 37.00 and registered an unfavourable economy rate of 4.82.

[2][8] In July 2007, Australia hosted New Zealand in a Rose Bowl series in the middle of the southern hemisphere winter by staging the matches in the tropical northern city of Darwin.

She scored an unbeaten 11 and took 2/34 in the next match to help guide the Australians to a two-run win, taking an unassailable 3–1 series lead.

She then took a wicket in each of the next two matches before claiming 2/30 and scoring 13 as New South Wales took a hard-fought two-wicket win over Queensland.

She started poorly, conceding 49 runs from five wicketless overs in an eight-wicket defeat at the hands of the Australian Under-21 team in a warm-up match at Kardinia Park in Geelong.

[2] Andrews' strong WNCL performances earned her a recall into the Australian team ahead of the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup to be held in New South Wales and Canberra.

Andrews took 3/35 from 8.3 overs in the final super Six match against England, which Australia won by eight wickets, and they met India in the third-place playoff.

Having caught Lydia Greenway early in the innings, she then bowled the final English batsman Laura Marsh for 38, ending a last-wicket partnership of 59.

In reply, Andrews made 15, one of the few batsmen to reach double figures as New South Wales capitulated for 75 and lost the title-deciding match.

[2] Andrews then played in all three ODIs on New Zealand soil, taking one wicket in each match as Australia completed a clean sweep.