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Sarah Bryce
Personal information
Full name
Sarah Jennifer Bryce
Born (2000-01-08) 8 January 2000 (age 24)
Wicket-keeper-batter
RelationsKathryn Bryce (sister)[1]
International information
National side
T20I debut (cap 3)7 July 2018 v Uganda
Last T20I25 September 2022 v Papua New Guinea
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2015–2018Scotland
2017–2019Scotland A
2019Nottinghamshire
2020–presentKent
2020–presentThe Blaze
2021Oval Invincibles
2022–presentWelsh Fire
Career statistics
Competition WT20I WLA WT20
Matches 28 35 78
Runs scored 628 1,171 1,597
Batting average 31.40 37.77 32.59
100s/50s 0/2 1/9 1/7
Top score 65 136* 101*
Catches/stumpings 18/22 25/11 41/40
Source: CricketArchive, 30 September 2022

Sarah Jennifer Bryce (born 8 January 2000) is a Scottish

Lightning) and Kent. Previously, she has taken the field for English teams Nottinghamshire, Trent Rockets and Oval Invincibles, and for Welsh Fire
.

Bryce is known as a batter who has represented Scotland at cricket since she was fifteen, but she is also an accomplished wicket keeper. She has dismissed thirteen opponents while serving as a keeper which is a record for a female player in The Hundred domestic tournament.[4] Her sister, Kathryn, has also played international cricket for Scotland.[5][6]

Early life

Bryce was born in Edinburgh.[7]

Domestic career

Scotland

Bryce plays club cricket for the Watsonian Cricket Club, which is based in Edinburgh.[8]

England: County cricket

Bryce made her English County cricket debut for the Scotland team in 2015, against Somerset.[9]

In the 2016 Women's County Championship, she played five matches for Scotland in Division 3, and made 72 runs at 14.40, with a top score of 22.[10] During the 2016 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Bryce scored the most runs of any of Scotland's players, and recorded the fourth-highest aggregate in Division 3, as Scotland went undefeated in eight matches to win the Division and achieve promotion to Division 2.[11] In those eight matches, she made 191 runs at 27.29, with a top score of 62.[11]

In the 2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Bryce played eight Division 2 matches for Scotland A, and scored 96 runs at 19.20, with a top score of 37*.[12]

During the 2018 Women's County Championship, Bryce, playing for Scotland in Division 3 Group A, scored the most runs of any player in the Group. In six matches, she made 258 runs at 64.50, with a top score of 81*, against Durham.[13] In the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Bryce took the field for Scotland A in eight Division 2 matches, and made 203 runs at 40.60, with a top score of 53.[14]

In 2019, Bryce played for Nottinghamshire in the Women's County Championship, and was the fourth-highest run-maker for the team. In six County Championship matches, she scored 175 runs, took 10 catches and achieved four stumpings.[15] In that season's Women's County T20 Division 1, she played six further matches for Notts, scoring a total of 175 runs at 29.17, with a top score of 60.[16] She also played six matches for Scotland A in the Women's County T20 Division 2, making 272 runs at 90.70, including 101* against Cheshire.[17]

Bryce signed for Kent in 2020.[15][18] The final edition of the Women's County Championship had already taken place, and in 2020 the Women's Twenty20 Cup was not held, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[19] However, Kent did take part in the inaugural 50-over Women's London Championship (WLC), which was organised as "... the start of the county comeback."[20][21] In two innings in the WLC, Bryce scored 78 runs at a strike rate of 93.98, which was enough for her to place fourth in the overall run chart, and be named as Kent's Batter of the Year and Women's Player of the Year.[22][23]

The next season, 2021, Bryce played six matches for Kent in the South East Group of that year's Women's Twenty20 Cup, which Kent won. She scored an aggregate of 165 runs at 41.25, with two half centuries including 63* opening the batting against Middlesex, and was named as Kent's T20 Player of the Tournament.[23][24] Additionally, she played in the 2021 WLC, from which Kent similarly emerged victorious.[23] In the first of that season's WLC matches, she also captained Kent for the first time, in a 46-run win against Essex.[23]

In April 2022, Bryce was awarded Kent Women Cap 55.[23] However, she played only four matches for Kent in that season's Women's Twenty20 Cup, Group 6; she scored 74 runs in all at 24.67, with a highest score of 45* against Hampshire.[25]

England: Regional cricket

In June 2020, Bryce and her sister were signed to play for the East Midlands Regional Hub,

Lightning in England's new regionally-based women's elite domestic competitions.[27][28]

The Bryce sisters were recruited on the basis that they would be released for international duty with Scotland as required; both were already ranked in the world's top 20 in T20 internationals.[27]

In that year's inaugural 50-over Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, Bryce made 395 runs for Lightning in six games at 79.00, including four half centuries followed by 136* in her team's final match, against Central Sparks.[29][30][31]

In December 2020, Lightning awarded the two sisters full-time contracts, in recognition of their highly successful performances that year; of the 41 players nationally who were given a full-time regional contract, they were the only ones from an ICC Associate member nation.[32][33]

As was observed by Emerging Cricket at the time, the full time contracts not only "... supported [Bryce and her sister] financially...", but also gave them "... increased access and opportunities to develop their game as professional cricketers beyond their lives as students and without having to potentially sacrifice representing their nation to earn a living overseas."[32]

In the ensuing season, 2021, Bryce played a much less prominent role in the second RHF Trophy, recording only 202 runs in seven matches at 28.85, with a highest score of 90.[29][34] The following year, she made five appearances in the 2022 RHF Trophy and scored 115 runs at 23.[29]

England: The Hundred

In 2021, Bryce was drafted by

inaugural season of The Hundred.[35] In her 10 matches for the competition-winning Invincibles team that season, she scored only 32 runs in four innings with a top score of 29,[29][36] but also topped the overall figures for wicketkeeper dismissals by taking eight catches and completing three stumpings.[37]

Bryce was then signed by the

the 2022 tournament.[38] Her batting performance in that year's Hundred turned out to be much more satisfactory; amongst her teammates, she finished with an aggregate second only to Tammy Beaumont and an average second only to Hayley Matthews.[39] However, the team as a whole ended up coming last in the competition.[40]

Australia

In the WBBL|03 edition of the Women's Big Bash League Twenty20 competition, held during the 2017–18 Australian season, Bryce was the Associate Rookie for Hobart Hurricanes under the ICC Associate Rookie programme.[41]

International career

Bryce played for the Scotland women's national cricket team in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in February 2017.[42]

In June 2018, she was named in Scotland's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.[43] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) for Scotland against Uganda in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018.[44] She was the leading run-scorer for Scotland in the tournament, with 162 runs in five matches.[45] Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named as the rising star of Scotland's squad by the International Cricket Council (ICC).[46] In July 2018, she was named in the ICC Women's Global Development Squad.[47]

In May 2019, she was in Scotland's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Europe tournament in Spain.[48] In August 2019, she became the captain of Scotland's squad for the 2019 Netherlands Women's Quadrangular Series.[49]

In August 2019, she joined Scotland's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland.[50] In October 2019, she was in the Women's Global Development Squad, ahead of a five-match series in Australia.[51]

In November 2020, Bryce was nominated for the ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award.[52]

In January 2022, she was in Scotland's team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Cricket Qualifier tournament in Malaysia.[53]

Playing style

Bryce is a

wicket-keeper-batter who bats right-handed in the top order.[7][9][29] ESPNcricinfo observes that she is a "... powerful cutter of the ball ... strong down the ground against spin ... [and] ... also a superb wicketkeeper ..."[7]
In May 2021, Matt Roller wrote for ESPNcricinfo that Bryce:

"... is slightly taller [than her sister Kathryn] and particularly strong playing cut shots, though she uses her feet to hit spinners through mid-on and mid-off too. While [one of her former coaches] jokes that she would be well served by "having another word or two with the batters from behind the stumps", her ability with the gloves was demonstrated by four stumpings in Scotland's T20I against Ireland this week - the second consecutive T20I in which she had achieved the feat."[26]

The Cricketer describes her as "a seasoned international ... [who] offers consistency and steadfastness",[29] and also comments that she "... is highly respected by all her teammates not only for her cricketing ability, but also for the positivity and charisma she brings to her teams."[29]

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