Claire Taylor
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Full name | Samantha Claire Taylor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England | 25 September 1975|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter, occasional wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 127) | 15 July 1999 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 10 July 2009 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 78) | 19 July 1998 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 7 July 2011 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 11) | 5 August 2004 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 27 June 2011 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1993–1999 | Thames Valley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000–2011 | Berkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002/03–2004/05 | Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 14 March 2021 |
Samantha Claire Taylor MBE (born 25 September 1975) is a former cricketer who represented England more than 150 times between 1998 and 2011. A top order batter,[n 1] Taylor was the first woman to be named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. Along with Charlotte Edwards, she was the mainstay of England's batting during the first decade of the 21st century, and played a key role in the team's two world titles in 2009.
Taylor did not play cricket until the age of 13, but four years later made her county debut. Initially considered a wicket-keeper with limited batting ability, Taylor struggled to break into the England team. She made her international debut in 1998, and within two years was a regular in the team. After an unsuccessful World Cup in 2000, Taylor left her job to become a full-time cricketer. Over the subsequent five years, she developed into one of the leading batsmen in women's cricket, but after another failure in the 2005 World Cup she resumed her career alongside cricket.
Despite her struggles at the World Cup, Taylor continued to improve as a batsman, and in 2006, she scored 156 not out, the highest individual total in an ODI at
Early life and career
Samantha Claire Taylor was born in
Taylor was awarded a place at
International breakthrough
In April 1998, Taylor travelled to
During the subsequent English winter of 1999–2000, Taylor was part of the touring party that travelled to Australia and New Zealand for nine ODIs.
England's "slide down the international ladder" continued during the
Full-time cricketer
After the 2000 World Cup, Taylor wanted to focus on her desire to become one of the best batsmen in the world.
Taylor competed in the State League for the second consecutive year in early 2004, and finished with the second-most runs in the competition, scoring 401 runs at an average of 44.55.[42] From New Zealand, she travelled to South Africa to join up with the England team for five ODIs. After scoring 90 runs in a warm-up contest against an Invitational XI,[43] she finished as England's second most prolific run-scorer behind Edwards, though she only once reached a half-century in the international matches.[44] Back in England for the 2004 Super Fours competition, Taylor and Edwards once more headed the batting tables, Taylor narrowly trailing her international teammate in terms of runs scored, but ahead of her on batting average, having scored 351 runs at 87.75.[45] In the subsequent series against New Zealand, Taylor was the top-scorer in the first Twenty20 International match played by either gender.[46][47] Despite the quicker-scoring nature of the Twenty20 game, Taylor was praised for her measured batting and placement.[48] In the ODIs, England possessed greater depth in their batting, making the team less reliant on Taylor and Edwards' performances.[47] That depth helped them to win the series 3–2, despite a low-scoring sequence of matches for Taylor in which she averaged below twenty.[49]
In preparation for the
Further development
After the World Cup, Taylor was disheartened by both her own, and England's, lack of success. She bemoaned that the sacrifices she had made had come to nothing, and after talking to psychologists, she realised that she needed to readdress her work–life balance. An amateur violinist, she was accepted into the Reading Orchestra, and by early 2006 was working out of the University of Reading as a performance management consultant.[28]
In the English summer of 2005,
Taylor, and England, had a difficult tour of Sri Lanka and India in late 2005; after winning the two ODIs against Sri Lanka, England drew the only Test against India and lost the ODI series 4–1.[64] Taylor only scored 76 runs in the seven ODI matches,[65] and made scores of five and three in the Test.[66] She re-found her batting form at the start of the 2006 English cricket season, topping the batting averages in the 2006 Super Fours competition, scoring two centuries and two half-centuries in six matches for the Sapphires.[67]
Facing the
In the Women's Quadrangular Series hosted by India in early 2007, Taylor was England's best performer with the bat. Despite her side losing all six of their group matches, she finished the tournament with the second-most runs of any player, totalling 346.[74] She scored half-centuries against each of the other three teams competing—Australia, India and New Zealand—and also scored an unbeaten 113 in the first match against Australia.[75] She had a relatively quiet domestic season in 2007, ranking sixth amongst run-scorers in the Super Fours, having passed 50 runs just once,[76] and despite ranking second by both runs scored and batting average in the County Championship, Taylor only scored two half-centuries in her five appearances in that competition.[77] England started the summer with four Twenty20 matches, one against South Africa and three against New Zealand, in which Taylor made three scores of 20 or more, but did not reach a half-century. In the third ODI against New Zealand, she scored her sixth century in the format, but her 110 runs came from 133 deliveries, and the Wisden series report suggests that the scoring rate was too slow: New Zealand chased down the total in fewer than 36 overs.[78][79] In the next match, Taylor scored 72 as England attempted to chase down 240 runs to win, but they were eventually bowled out 43 runs short.[80] Though she only made small totals in the other three matches of the series, Taylor finished as the leading run-scorer in the series, though New Zealand's Aimee Watkins had a superior batting average.[81][82] Her performances over the year from August 2006 resulted in Taylor being shortlisted for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year award, alongside Australia's Lisa Sthalekar and the eventual winner, India's Jhulan Goswami. During the voting period, Taylor scored three centuries and three half-centuries in international cricket.[83]
Leading batsman
England travelled to Australia and New Zealand in early 2008 attempting to improve on their previous visits. In ten ODI matches in Australia against their hosts previously, England had only managed one win,[84] while against New Zealand they had won just three of fifteen contests.[85] England started badly, losing two of their warm-up matches by significant margins, and then falling 21 runs short in the Twenty20 match which opened the series.[86] Taylor top-scored for England in their Twenty20 defeat with 34 runs from 32 balls.[87] She made a similar score in the first ODI match against the hosts, but in the second match both Taylor and Edwards were out for ducks in a heavy defeat for England.[88] After the third match of the series was abandoned without any play, Taylor scored her first half-century of the tour, and shared a century partnership with Edwards to help England secure a 2–1 lead in the series, guaranteeing that they would at least draw the five-match contest.[89] After Australia won the last ODI to tie the series, the two sides met at the Bradman Oval to play the only Test of the tour. Taylor and Edwards again enjoyed a successful partnership in England's first innings; Taylor scored 79 runs as the pair put on 159 together. She scored an unbeaten half-century in the second innings to help England to retain the Ashes.[90]
Taylor carried her good form into the subsequent series against New Zealand, starting the second leg of their trip with a half-century against New Zealand A in a warm-up match in which she was acting captain.[91] England struggled in the first ODI however: only Taylor and Edwards reached double figures for the tourists as they suffered a 123-run loss.[92] In the following match, Taylor scored the seventh international century of her career, remaining 111 not out as England secured a nine-wicket win over New Zealand.[93] She scored a half-century in the third ODI of the series, and 34 runs in the fifth to finish as England's leading run-scorer of the tour, scoring 342 runs at an average of 48.85 from the nine ODI matches in Australia and New Zealand.[94]
Playing in the first match of Berkshire's County Championship campaign, Taylor scored 146 runs from 148 balls against Nottinghamshire, out of a team total of 212: no other Berkshire batsman scored more than 10 runs, and Nottinghamshire won by six wickets.[95] In a two match ODI series against the West Indies she made minimal impact,[96] but was described by Cricinfo as being "at her dominant best" in the first match of the subsequent series against South Africa.[97] She struck 7 fours during her 70-ball innings and scored 83 runs.[97] In the three remaining matches of the series, she made modest totals, before missing the Twenty20 Internationals due to illness.[98] Taylor reached a landmark during the third series of the summer, making her 100th ODI appearance, against India.[99] In the five-match series, which England won 4–0, Taylor remained not out in each of her three innings, scoring 125 runs.[100] Following that series, the ICC introduced player rankings for women's ODI cricket, for which Taylor was top of the batsmen.[101]
Double world champions
In 2009, England participated in both the
Taylor's next international action came during the
Later career
Taylor returned to action for England in the
Her injury had healed by the start of the 2011 season, but Taylor failed to make a significant impact on England's first two matches of the
Playing style
During her teenage years, Taylor was considered a better hockey player than cricketer. When she began playing for Thames Valley, she was considered a wicket-keeper with no more than average batting ability.[128] At university, she began to develop her batting, playing alongside the men for her college side. The different pace and strength required in the men's game meant that she had to learn to play off the back foot, in contrast to women's cricket, which is generally played off the front foot.[3] After graduating from university in 1997, she made her international debut for England in 1998, but batted low in the order for England, having been picked as a wicket-keeper. Intent on improving her batting, she began one-on-one coaching with Mark Lane. At the time, it was unusual for a member of the England women's team to have individual coaching sessions, and Taylor had to pay for the meetings herself.[129] When they began working together, Lane was critical of her batting; "She was just average, I would say."[130] The sessions helped to improve Taylor's mental approach towards batting as well as making technical changes, though Lane promoted the use of bottom-handed hockey-style shots which came more naturally to Taylor. At her peak, she used her intelligence to help manipulate the field; in an interview she described that, "when I'm batting at my best I have a 3D awareness of the shape of the field and where the spaces are."[128]
Recognition
Taylor was the first woman to be selected as Wisden's Cricketer of the Year, in 2009.[131] The editor of that years almanack, Scyld Berry, noted that "there is no element of political correctness or publicity-seeking about her selection," and that she had been "chosen on merit, for being pre-eminent in her form of the game."[131] She was short-listed for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year in both 2007 and 2008, and won the award in 2009.[132] She was also named as the England and Wales Cricket Board's Women's Player of the Year in May 2009.[133] Continuing on from her success in 2009, Taylor was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on the 2010 New Year Honours list.[134] During her career she topped the ICC batting rankings for both ODI and Twenty20 International cricket,[135][136] and upon her retirement, former Test cricketer Mike Selvey suggested in The Guardian that she was "perhaps the finest batsman the women's game has seen."[128]
See also
- List of centuries in women's One Day International cricket
- List of centuries in women's Test cricket
Notes
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