Sarah Jane Elliott (née Edwards; born 4 January 1982) is an Australian former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm leg break bowler.

At this stage of her career, Edwards was a specialist batsman and did not bowl her first ball in senior cricket until six years later.

She made only 37 runs at 7.40 and spent most of the following season's international fixtures watching from the sidelines as a reserve, playing in only two ODIs.

In 2009–10 Edwards performed strongly with both bat and ball, scoring 300 runs and taking 14 wickets and was recalled to the national team.

Edwards made was selected for the Victorian team for the national Under-19 tournament in January 2000, turning 18 during the early part of the competition.

She scored 7 and 46 and earned a call-up into the senior team for the double-header against New south Wales in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL).

In the last two round-robin matches, against New South Wales, she made only five and seven in consecutive defeats, and when the teams met again a fortnight later for the finals series, she managed 13 and 5 as Victoria lost to the defending champions—who successfully chased down targets in both matches—2–0.

[2] These performances saw Edwards spend almost all of the 2002–03 season out of the state team; she made only one appearance, registering a duck against South Australia.

Apart from 24 and 26 in the two matches against Western Australia, she failed to pass 15 in her six remaining innings, which included four scores below five.

In one match, she not allowed to bat even after the fall of the seventh wicket, being shielded by her team despite nominally being a specialist batsman.

[2] In a round-robin match against reigning champions New South Wales, she reached 40 before being run out; Victoria went on to a three-wicket loss.

It was not until the fifth and final ODI at the County Ground in Taunton, Hampshire that she made her debut, becoming the 104th woman to represent Australia in One Day International cricket.

[2] Edwards was left out of the Australian side for the home ODI series and one-off Test against India held in Adelaide after the season.

[2][6] Edwards performer consistently through most of the 2006–07 WNCL season, reaching 28 in each of her first six innings, including a 51 in a six-wicket win over New South Wales and an unbeaten 52 in another successful run-chase against Western Australia.

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

She was recalled for the final qualifying match, scoring 20 from as many balls as Australia defeated the hosts by four wickets.

[2][6] Edwards ended the Indian tour with 29 runs at 9.66 at a strike rate of 58.00,[6] and was retained for the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand hosted by Australia in the tropical northern city of Darwin in the winter of 2007.

She also began bowling with regularity for the first time, delivering 23 overs and conceding 91 runs without taking a wicket, an economy rate of 3.95.

Edwards was dropped for the final ODI and not selected in the one-off Test against England before the Australians headed to New Zealand for the Rose Bowl series.

[2] However, she was unable to produce this form against defending champions New South Wales, making a duck and 10 and taking only one wicket in their round-robin matches, both of which were lost.

[2] The selectors responded to Edwards' form slump with the bat by dropping her for the 2009 Rose Bowl series and the Women's World Cup held in New South Wales and Canberra.

Having been dropped from the Australian team the previous season, she started well, making 52 and 30 as Victoria won both matches against Western Australia.

[2] In the next match against the ACT, she took 3/23 from her quota and then scored an unbeaten 53 to help Victoria avoid a defeat, scraping home by one wicket.

[2] Elliott had a successful time in the domestic T20s, now part of a full interstate tournament, scoring 144 runs at 36.00 and taking 13 wickets at 8.61 at an economy rate of 4.54 in seven matches.

[2] Elliott's performances during the domestic season earned her a recall to the national team for the 2010 Rose Bowl series, and she played in each of the five ODIs during the Australian leg of the competition, and was used almost entirely as a specialist batsman at No.

[2] The competition ended with three ODIs on New Zealand soil, and Elliott scored consecutive half-centuries, 59 and 56 not out in the last two matches in Invercargill.

[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] In the first warm-up match against New Zealand, which Australia lost by 18 runs, Elliott took 1/17 from three overs, removing top-scorer Suzie Bates for 51.

Elliott was required to neither bat nor bowl as the Indians ended with 3/119, which was chased down by the Australians with seven wickets and seven balls to spare.

A fourth-wicket partnership of 30 between Leah Poulton and Cameron ended with both falling in the space of three balls, bringing Elliott and wicket-keeper Alyssa Healy to the crease with the score at 5/51 in the 13th over.

[19] Elliott and England's Enid Bakewell and Laura Newton are the only cricketers to have achieved the feat of scoring a Test century after becoming a mother.