Lea Tahuhu
![]() Tahuhu bowling for New Zealand during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Lea-Marie Maureen Tahuhu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Christchurch, New Zealand | 23 September 1990|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Amy Satterthwaite (wife) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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ODI debut (cap 122) | 14 June 2011 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 12 December 2023 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 34) | 25 June 2011 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 5 December 2023 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008/09–present | Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015/16 | Australian Capital Territory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Surrey Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016/17–2020/21 | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017 | Lancashire Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | Trailblazers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | Supernovas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022 | Manchester Originals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022/23 | Sydney Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 12 December 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lea-Marie Maureen Tahuhu (born 23 September 1990) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays as a right-arm fast bowler. She made her international debut for the New Zealand women's cricket team in June 2011.[1]
Career
[edit]In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.[2]
In August 2018, she was awarded a central contract by New Zealand Cricket, following the tours of Ireland and England in the previous months.[3][4] In October 2018, she was named in New Zealand's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[5][6] Ahead of the tournament, she was named as one of the players to watch.[7]
In November 2018, she was named in the Melbourne Renegades' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.[8][9] In January 2020, she was named in New Zealand's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[10] In August 2021, she was named in New Zealand's squad for the limited overs series against England which also marked her comeback return to the national side after 18 months since being diagnosed with a mole on her left foot.[11][12] On 21 September 2021, in the third match against England, Tahuhu took her first five-wicket haul in WODI cricket.[13]
In February 2022, she was named in New Zealand's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[14] In July 2022, Tahuhu was added to New Zealand's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.[15]
Personal life
[edit]Tahuhu attended Aranui High School,[16] and won the Peter Hooton Memorial Scholarship in 2008.[17] She is married to fellow international cricketer Amy Satterthwaite.[18] On 13 January 2020, Satterthwaite gave birth to a child and took an extended paid maternity leave.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lea Tahuhu". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ "Ellyse Perry declared ICC's Women's Cricketer of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Rachel Priest left out of New Zealand women contracts". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ "Four new players included in White Ferns contract list". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ "New Zealand women pick spin-heavy squads for Australia T20Is, World T20". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "White Ferns turn to spin in big summer ahead". New Zealand Cricket. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "Players to watch in ICC Women's World T20 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ^ "WBBL04: All you need to know guide". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
- ^ "The full squads for the WBBL". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
- ^ "Lea Tahuhu returns to New Zealand squad for T20 World Cup". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "White Fern Lea Tahuhu back at the crease after cancer scare". Stuff. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ "Lea Tahuhu overcomes cancer scare to make England tour". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ "England v New Zealand ODI: Lea Tahutu claims five England wickets". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "Leigh Kasperek left out of New Zealand's ODI World Cup squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ "Down, Kerr out of New Zealand's CWG squad; Tahuhu, Green named replacements". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ "Contributions – Peter Hooton Memorial Scholarship". The Eccentrics. QSCC. Archived from the original on 18 July 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ "Hawke's Bay cricket star puts school on scoreboard". Hawke's Bay Today. APN News & Media. 25 May 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ Johannsen, Dana (20 May 2018). "Amy Satterthwaite and Lea Tahuhu – a cricketing partnership worthy of attention". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ "White Ferns couple Amy Satterthwaite and Lea Tahuhu welcome baby Grace Marie". Stuff. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
External links
[edit] Media related to Lea Tahuhu at Wikimedia Commons
- Lea Tahuhu at ESPNcricinfo
- Lea Tahuhu at CricketArchive (subscription required)