Born in The Hague, van der Gun made her senior debut for the Netherlands at the age of 18, on a tour of England in August 2000.
Van der Gun went on to play in all seven of her team's matches, scoring 64 runs and taking three wickets.
[5] After the World Cup, van der Gun did not return to the national squad until 2012, when she played a single match for the Netherlands in the Women's County Championship.
She finished the competition with 291 runs, behind only Crewdson and Miranda Veringmeier for the Netherlands, and recorded two half-centuries – 51 not out against Hampshire and 73 not out against Northamptonshire.
[7] In 2014, van der Gun played for the Netherlands in both the English competitions and the European Championship, although she has not appeared at national level since then.