Alex Blackwell

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Alexandra Joy Blackwell (born 31 August 1983) is a retired professional cricketer who competed for New South Wales and Australia as a specialist batsman.

She made her 250th international appearance for the Australian women's cricket team in October 2017.

After an eighteen-year career, she announced her retirement from cricket in November 2019.

Kate, her identical twin sister, has also played for Australia. In the 2001–02 Women's National Cricket League, Blackwell made her senior debut for New South Wales (WNCL).

She had little to do as the opposition bowlers attempted to crack the New South Wales batting lineup while playing in the middle order.

Blackwell claimed the WNCL for the first time in her debut season as New South Wales defeated Blackwell 33 runs at 33.00.

Early years

Blackwell was born in Wagga, but he was raised in Yenda, a small rural town just outside Griffith, New South Wales. On the North Shore of Sydney, she and her identical twin sister Kate attended Barker College.

Blackwell was called into the New South Wales squad for the under-17 interstate tournament in March 2000. In a ten wicket victory over Victoria Blue in the first match, she took 3/7 and wasn't allowed to bat. In the sixth match against Western Australia, she scored 57 not out, despite her top-score for the tournament. South Wales won all eight matches to qualify for the tournament, while Blackwell ended with 149 runs at 37.25 and seven wickets at 17.00.

Personal life

"Seal" is Blackwell's nickname. "Our lips are sealed," she said, "the source of the nickname is a tale that involves the misquoting of lyrics from the Go Go's album."

Blackwell's Steven Davies came out as the second international player to come out during their playing career after England's Steven Davies. Lynsey Askew, a fellow cricketer, is married to her wife.

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International career

Blackwell was selected into the national team for a quadrangular ODI tournament held in Lincoln, New Zealand, at the end of the season. In addition to the hosts, Australia, England, and India, were also competing. In the round-robin stage, each team played two games against the other three teams. In a seven-wicket victory, Blackwell made her debut in Australia's second match against England, but no batted nor bowled in a seven-wicket victory. She scored 27 runs before being run out and then had an unexpected success as a bowler, winning by 2/8 from six overs in a 59-run victory. She was left out of Australia's fourth match against England, but she returned for the last two qualifying matches. She went 2/18 against India before making six not out when the winning runs were scored against the hosts. She made 21 runs in the final as Australia scored 214 runs and defeated the hosts by 109 runs. With 54 runs at 27.00 and four wickets at 8.50, Blackwell concluded her first international series with 54 runs at 27.00 and four wickets at 8.50, which was at an economy rate of 2.61. The ball's success is something she hasn't experienced. She had only taken two more wickets at international level in seven years. Alex Blackwell is Australia's 97th woman to play One Day International cricket.

In two Tests, Australia defeated England. Blackwell made her Brisbane debut at the Gabba. She bowled 11 overs, six maidens included, in a low-scoring match, netting figures of 0/9 as the tourists made 124 batting first. Blackwell came in at 4/40 and made four from 14 balls in her maiden Test innings before being dismissed by Laura Newton, precipitating a total loss of 6/28 as Australia fell to 78. Blackwell came to the crease after England was all out for 92 with a score of 4/104, with 35 runs still needed for victory. She and Michelle Goszko batted slowly, totaling seven runs in nine overs before the former was out. Julie Hayes was accompanied by Blackwell, who scored 18 of the remaining 28 runs needed for victory. With five wickets in hand and having batted for 85 balls in 85 minutes, Blackwell was nine not out and was at the crease when the winning runs were announced. Despite her circumspect batting, Blackwell was selected for the Second Test at Bankstown Oval in Sydney. Australia batted first and Blackwell came in at 4/90. Mel Jones and Hayes, her sisters, fell in quick succession as Australia lost 3/13 to 6/103. Blackwell added 21 with Cathryn Fitzpatrick before the former was out for 13; this caused a 4/10 drop as Australia was all out for 134. In the second innings, Blackwell came in at 4/49 with Australia being four runs behind. Lisa Sthalekar had been wicketless in 226 minutes for the fifth wicket before being dismissed for 58 after hitting six boundaries from 236 balls. When time ran out, England made it to a bare minimum of 206. In the match, Blackwell did not bowl.

In all of New South Wales' 11 games in the 2003–04 WNCL, Blackwell scored 183 runs at 26.14. She made an unbeaten 70 in a vain attempt to win in the run-chase as her state was bowled out and forfeited to a ten-run loss in her fourth match of the season against South Australia in a vain effort to win in the run-chase. As New South Wales tied one match and lost by four wickets, she was then run out twice for 26 and 23 in the two matches against reigning champions Victoria. It was two of three instances in which Blackwell was suspended during the season. In the finals against Victoria, New South Wales had a chance of winning. In the first final, which the titleholders defeated by six wickets, Blackwell scored a duck, her third single-digit score in as many matches. She was unbeaten on 13 and 16 runs in the next two matches and was at the crease when the winning runs were announced. In a deciding match by three wickets, New South Wales won the second final by five wickets and scraped home to reclaim the WNCL crown. At 118.00 in total, Blackwell's sporadic bowling—26 overs in total—yielded one wicket at 118.37.

Blackwell stayed in the national team for the Rose Bowl series, which included three matches in New Zealand and then Australia. She appeared in only three games in New Zealand and did not bat in the seven-wicket victory before being banned for the first match at home. She was called back to action in a 40-run victory and made 15 not out in a 40-run victory before leading Australia to a four-wicket victory in the final match at Bellerive Oval as the hosts took out the series 5-1.

Blackwell made 54 and 27 in her first four matches of the 2004-05 WNCL as the opposition bowlers failed to penetrate the top-order in the other two matches. When the national team travelled to India in December for a seven-match bilateral ODI series, the defending champions won all four matches before the season was postponed. In a 14-run win in the first game in Mysore, Blackwell scored two runs and was disqualified for the next match. In a six-wicket loss, she was called back for her third match in Mumbai, run out for a duck. The tourists won the next two games to conclude the series, but Blackwell was not present. In the third match, she was not allowed to bat and was out for 13 in the next. She was 19 in the sixth ODI and was disqualified for the tour's final match with 34 runs at 8.50, bringing an end to the series.

Blackwell returned to Australia, needing a strong start to the WNCL season to guarantee selection for the 2005 World Cup in South Africa. She made 96 runs in four innings in four remaining round-robin matches, with half of them coming in a five-wicket victory over Queensland. In the finals, New South Wales met Victoria. Blackwell was not allowed to bat in the first match before being disqualified for 71 and 109, losing the last two matches by five wickets and 50 runs respectively. Despite her poor showings on the Indian tour, Blackwell finished the season with 214 runs at 26.75, and this was enough to ensure that she would remain in the national team. In Perth, the Australians hosted New Zealand for three Rose Bowl ODIs before the teams crossed the Indian Ocean to South Africa. In the trans-Tasman matches, Blackwell was not efficient. In the first match, she made six wickets and took 1/8, and she was then run out for 27 on the next round. She was disqualified for her third match.

Blackwell was largely persevered by the selectors in the first match of the World Cup; she did not bat when England made 7/169 before rain ended the match. An encounter with New Zealand was followed by this. Blackwell scored 53 runs in Australia's 7/174, assisting in the series's 32-run victory. She was run out for a duck in a 79-run victory over the hosts in the third match against the West Indies, and she was disqualified for a 97-run victory over the hosts. Two straight victories were enough to wrap up the group stages. Blackwell's last international wicket dismissed Sri Lanka for 57 runs as Australia dismissed Sri Lanka for 1/8 from two overs, her last international wicket. Since then, she has bowled only 47 balls in senior matches. As Australia reached their target with eight wickets in hand, she was not allowed to bat. The match against Ireland was a lot like the one against Ireland, with Australia achieving the target of 67 wickets intact. Due to inclement weather, the final pool match against India was postponed without a ball being bowled, and Australia met England in the semi-finals. Blackwell won by ten points out of the closing stages of a five-wicket win. She came in near the end of the innings and made four not out as Australia astonished 4/215. Australia bowled India out for 117 runs to win by 98 runs. At 33.50 runs, Blackwell brought the tournament to a close.

Australia toured England during the 2005 northern hemisphere summer. They started with a stopover in Ireland, and only the second of the three ODIs went forward; the other two matches were called off by persistent rain. Australia won by 4 runs after Blackwell made four not out as Australia made 3/295 and took a 240-run victory.

In England, Australia participated in two Tests. Blackwell batted at No. 1 in the First Test at County Ground in Hove, Sussex, Sussex. 5 and played with identical twin sister Kate, who was playing for the first time in Test. In both innings, she struggled, scoring five and nine runs and scoring at a strike rate of 20 or less. Australia set the hosts a target of 306. After taking an 82-run lead, the hosts were given a target of 306. Blackwell took two catches, her first at Test level, excluding Claire Taylor and Jenny Gunn as the hosts came to a draw on 7/172. Blackwell led Australia by 20 and 14 runs in the second Test at New Road, Worcester, and then lost by six wickets after Blackwell's fall in the second innings left them at 5/46, still 112 runs behind. She ended the series with 48 runs at 12.00.

Blackwell had poor results in the five ODIs, scoring 5, 27, 17 not out, 21 not out, and 14 as Australia defeated 3–2. She ended the series with 84 runs at 28.00. Blackwell then played in Australia's inaugural Twenty20 international at the County Ground, Taunton, just the second international match in the new format's history. With seven wickets in hand, she was not allowed to bat.

Despite struggling to establish herself internationally in 2005, Blackwell commenced the 2005–06 WNCL season by scoring 61 points in their first match of the season, a seven-wicket victory over Western Australia. She ran out of runs against the same team on the next day, netting a 118-run win over the first WNCL century. In the upcoming match against Queensland, she top-scored with 86, scoring more than half of the runs in a good run-chase of 3/161. Blackwell's 36 and 30 as New South Wales defeated Victoria & Colomb in their last double-header of the season came after a string of three scores of 10 or less. New South Wales advanced to the finals against Queensland after winning seven out of eight matches. She scored 50 as New South Wales reached their target of 175 with eight wickets in hand, having earlier taken two wickets. In the upcoming match, she made only three wickets as New South Wales fell for 154 and lost by three wickets before losing by three wickets before scoring 10 runs to take the WNCL. Blackwell's season came to an end with 411 runs at 38.36.

Blackwell was retained for the series against India in Adelaide at the end of the Australian summer after a good WNCL season. In the one-off Test at the Adelaide Oval, which Australia won by an innings by an innings, she made a 17-ball duck opening the batting. In the first ODI, Blackwell took three catches but made only one. She only made 19 in the next match, but she was saved for the third and final ODI, top-scoring with an unbeaten 63 in a nine-wicket victory. She finished the series with 83 runs at 41.50.

Due to illness, Blackwell was unable to attend the five-ODI Rose Bowl series at home and the first four WNCL matches of the 2006–07 season. As New South Wales defeated all four matches, she returned to the final four round robin matches, making 42, 17, 74, and 4 as New South Wales claimed all four matches. In the three finals against Victoria, she was not as effective as a duck in a one-wicket win in the first match before scoring a duck in the second match and then winning by an eight-wicket victory the following day. She made 20 runs as New South Wales reached their target of 206 with three wickets in hand in the deciding match. Blackwell retired with 158 runs at 22.57, his highest performance of the season.

During a break in New South Wales' schedule, Blackwell travelled to New Zealand for three weekends of domestic one-dayers for Otago. In a 162-run victory over Northern Districts, she earned her debut for the team by hitting an even 100 runs. She won by 79 runs in an 182-run victory the next day. Blackwell ended her season against Auckland with 1 and 77, while Canterbury lost both matches. In her six-match stint, she had 315 runs at 52.50.

Blackwell was selected for the ODI team in Chennai, India, following the end of the Australian season. In addition to the hosts and Australia, New Zealand, and England, each team played each other twice in the round-robin tournament. She made 25 runs in a six-wicket loss against New Zealand, who took 41 runs without a single wicket from her four overs en route to a six-wicket victory. In a three-wicket loss to the hosts, Blackwell went 11 on a three-wicket loss, leaving Australia in danger of missing the final. She was retained but made a duck and 18 as Australia defeated England and New Zealand in their next two matches. Blackwell was then barred from the two remaining round-robin matches and the final, which Australia defeated by six wickets. With 54 runs at 13.50, she ended the tournament.

In July 2007, Blackwell was retained in the Rose Bowl series held in tropical Darwin, the middle of the southern hemisphere winter. She was called into the squad for the third match, where she defeated Australia by a six-wicket victory after watching the first two matches from the sidelines. In the two remaining matches, she took the field for 4 and 27 runs, bringing an end to the series with 75 runs at 37.50 as Australia defeated 3–2.

Blackwell started the 2007-08 WNCL season by scoring half-centuries in each of the first four games, all of which were dominated by New South Wales. Against South Australia, she made 75 not out and 52, then 60 against Victoria, and 55 against Victoria. Both of the two double-headers' findings were similar; New South Wales took the first match by seven wickets before prevailing by 25 runs the next day. In the penultimate round-robin match, Blackwell made 42, but in the other four matches, they failed to reach double figures. After winning seven of their eight matches and being awarded the trophy after the decider was washed out, New South Wales qualified in first place for the final against South Australia. At 41.57, Blackwell scored 291 runs at 41.3 percent. Blackwell defeated Western Australia by 37 not out in her first T20 innings.

Two international series against England and New Zealand followed the domestic tournament. Australia beat England by 21 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with Blackwell scoring ten runs. Blackwell established herself internationally in the ODIs that followed, which culminated in the 2–2 figures. She scored 11 runs in an Australian loss in the first ODI and her maiden ODI century, and then ran out 101— her first ODI century—the next day at MCG yields an 84-run victory. Blackwell won by 61 runs in the final match after making five runs as England took a 2–1 series lead. With 178 runs at 44.50, she brought the series to an end. Blackwell opened the innings in the one-off Test at Bowral. In their first innings, Australia batted first and scored 154 runs before losing a 90-run lead. She made a nifty saver. She made 24 runs in the second innings before being bowled for the second time in the matches by pace bowler Isa Guha as the tourists won by six wickets in hand.

The Australians then travelled to Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln, New Zealand, for a T20 international and five ODI. As the hosts took the T20 by four wickets, Blackwell made 15 wickets and took two catches. She then made 44 of 5/189 to help win by 63 runs in the first ODI. She made seven times in the next two matches, as the hosts claimed that both matches would have her lead in the series. Australia also needs to win the remaining two matches. Blackwell won by six runs in their fourth match. She made 91 to help Australia achieve their target of 250 and a series-clinching eight-wicket triumph. Blackwell's run at 42.20 brought the series to an end. She had 389 runs at 43.22 runs, establishing herself at international level for the entire international season.

Blackwell, who was playing for Berkshire in the county competition, and Rubies in the Australian winter, were both travelling to England for a domestic season in the northern hemisphere this year. In her five one-day innings for a total of 132 runs at 26.40, Blackwell failed to capitalize on her county's start, scoring 41, 22, 39, and 30. In four one-dayers for Rubies, it was a similar tale, with 58 runs at 14.50, a new record of 26. Blackwell made no difference in the T20s for Rubies, only making four and a duck.

With a tour by India, the 2008-2009 Australian season got off. Blackwell won by 0/14 from her first over and 14 in a six-wicket victory in a T20 match. She was one of the ODIs' most popular hosts after they swept the ODIs by a 5–0 clean sweep. She won by 80 points in her first match at Hurstville Oval, an eight-wicket victory. Blackwell won by 116 runs in the fourth match at Manuka Oval after making eight and one not out in the upcoming two matches. In the seven-wicket victory in the final match, she won by 65 runs out, putting an end to the series. For the series, Blackwell had 255 runs at 85.00.

Blackwell had a slow start to the WNCL, beginning with a failed 42 in her first three innings; she made an unbeaten 50 in an eight-wicket victory over Western Australia; and then went on to beat South Australia by nine wickets. She made 75 runs on the next day, but it wasn't enough to prevent a 39-run loss to the same team. She won by 70 not out in a nine-wicket victory in the second round of robin matches against Victoria, her fourth straight score over 50. The streak came to an end on the next day with 22 wickets, and New South Wales hosted the final against the same team the next week. As New South Wales took the spoils by 6 wickets, Blackwell made only three runs as New South Wales won by 6 wickets on 4/120 runs. With 372 runs at 62.00, she ended the season on a high note.

Following the conclusion of the WNCL, the Australians departed to New Zealand for the Rose Bowl series. In the first two matches, Blackwell scored 10 and 9 as Australia went 2–0 down. As Australia levelled the field, she made 59 and 37 in the next two matches; the fifth and final match was was rained out. For the World Cup, the teams returned to Australia. Blackwell was 91 not out and 56 retired in two warm-up matches against England and Sri Lanka; Australia defeated the matches by 25 and 230 runs respectively.

Blackwell made four as Australia fell short of their target on the Duckworth-Lewis technique in the first match of the World Cup campaign. Australia then needed to win their two remaining group matches to advance to the Super Six stage. As Australia defeated South Africa by 61 runs, Blackwell made 22 wickets and took three catches. In a 47-run win over the West Indies, she scored 46 not out and tied for 46 runs. In the first Super Six match against India, Blackwell scored 54 runs as Australia made 7/218, falling 17 runs off target. In the victory over Pakistan by 107 runs, she came out seven runs out. She was 38 not out in Australia's final Super Six match against England, and although the hosts won by eight wickets, it was not enough for them to finish in the top two in the standings and qualify for the final. In a three-wicket defeat in India's third-place playoff, Blackwell defeated India 19 people. With 190 runs at 38.00, Blackwell came to an end to the tournament.

In 2009, Blackwell was selected for Australia's team for the inaugural Women's World Twenty2020 held in England. The Australians defeated New Zealand in a three-match series in tropical Darwin at the start of June, and Blackwell appeared in all the matches, scoring 11 not out and 10 in her two innings. 2–1.

Blackwell made 19 in Australia's 8/123, which New Zealand defeated with nine wickets in hand after arriving in England. In an eight-wicket victory over the West Indies, she was not allowed to bat. Australia defeated South Africa by 24 runs, with Blackwell defeating them 40 not out.

Australia defeated England in the semi-finals. Blackwell earned five points before England beat Australia's score of 5/163 to reach the final, which they won. She won with 64 runs at 32.00 and ended the tournament.

After the World Twenty20s, Blackwell and the Australians stayed in England for a bilateral series against the hosts, the reigning world champions in both ODIs and T20s. As Australia defeated England by 34 runs in the one-off T20 match, she made 18 runs as Australia defeated England by 34 runs. She competed in all five ODIs and had a field day against the English bowling, scoring 7, 3, 0, 0 and 5. She started with a 38-ball 7 in Chelmsford and had a string of weak-scoring single-digit innings, bringing the series to a close end with a strike rate of 19.73.

Except for the last, which was was washed out, England triumphed all ODI matches except for the last. Blackwell played in a one-off Test match at Worcestershire's County Road. As Australia fell to 5/28 in their first innings before recovering to make 309. Blackwell opened and made a fourth-ball duck before recovering to make 309. After the tourists took a 41-run lead, Blackwell made 68 as Australia made 231 to set the hosts a target of 273. Nitschke and Blackwell's opening partner Nitschke fought for 49 before the latter was disqualified for 25. With Rolton, Blackwell scored 81 in 21 overs before the former was dismissed, leaving the score at 2/130. After hitting six fours and a six out of 135 balls, she was then out at 3/150, sparking a loss of 8/81. At 3/106, the match was decided as the hosts ended.

Blackwell defeated 121 runs in an eight-wicket victory over the Australian Capital Territory in the third match of the season after making single-figure scores in consecutive matches. She had been busy in the two matches against Victoria, scoring 138 runs to set up a 127-run win and then overcoming a 61-wicket win the next day. Blackwell led with 54 as New South Wales batted first and made 9/20 as New South Wales batted first and made 9/206. They then beat the Victorians by 147 runs to win by 59 runs. With 489 runs at 61.2, Blackwell wrapped the WNCL for the first time.

Blackwell was prolific in the six qualifying matches, scoring 31 not out, 32, 30, 43, 33 not out, and 24 not out. Except for the match against Victoria, New South Wales took all of the round-robin matches except for the fixture against Victoria. The two teams met again in the final, with Blackwell failing for the first time in the competition, making a duck as New South Wales fell for 75 after trying to reach 128 for victory.

After the sequence, Blackwell led Australia in the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand due to an injury to incumbent captain Jodie Fields. Five ODIs were sent to Australia to start the campaign. She made 51 and 34 runs in the first two matches, which were held at the Adelaide Oval, as the hosts won by 115 runs and six wickets respectively. The last three matches of the series were held at the Junction Oval in Melbourne. Blackwell top-scored with 92 runs in the third ODI as Australia defeated Australia by 102 runs and ended the series. In the final ODI, she was not required to bat in her tenwicket victory in her fourth match or made one. With 178 runs at 44.50, Blackwell put an end to her first series as captain.

At the beginning of the second phase of the bilateral tournaments, the ODIs were followed by three T20s at Bellerive Oval in Hobart and two more in New Zealand. Blackwell played in every match, and Australia was whitewashed. The three matches in Hobart were close; Blackwell scored 11, top-scored with 40, and added 26 as New Zealand defeated by two, one, and seven runs respectively. The hosts won the last two matches in New Zealand by 59 and 17 runs; Blackwell made 9 and 8 runs when the Australians were bowled out for 73 and 98. With 94 runs at 18.80, she came to an end to the series.

In New Zealand, Australia defeated New Zealand 3–0 in the ODIs. Blackwell came nearest to defeat in the ODIs in the first match, losing by two wickets. She finished with 8 and 44 points in her last two matches in Invercargill, completing the sweep. She made 235 runs at 33.57 in all the ODIs. Blackwell had also led Australia to eight consecutive ODI victories over New Zealand.

After Fields was also forced out by injuries, Blackwell led the team in the West Indies at the 2010 World Twenty2020 and captained in every match. No. 1 batted at No. 2 when she took the field at No. 2. In all but one match, there were four in all but one match. She started the bowling with her usual medium pace and took 1/29 from her four overs, dismissing the opposing captain and opener Aimee Watkins. She then came in at No. 10. Australia lost by 18 runs on 4 and top-scored with 44 from as many balls. She made 35 not out of 21 balls in the last warm-up match and was part of a 55-run partnership with Jess Cameron. As the Australians defeated Pakistan by 82 runs, she did not bowl herself.

The West Indies were grouped with defending champions England, South Africa, and the West Indies. Blackwell bowled out Holly Colvin to end the innings with 15 balls unused in the first match against England. When Blackwell came to the crease in the search of 105 for victory, Australia was 2/10. Leah Poulton was out 7 from 14 balls in a match partnership of 34 from 33 balls, Australia's biggest of the season—today. However, their dismissals in consecutive overs began with a 5/19 average from 34 balls. However, Australia recovered, and Rene Farrell was run out trying for the winning run from the third last ball available, leaving the scores tied.

Both teams ended with 2/6 after trying to force a seventh run on the final ball in a Super Over event. The match was awarded to Australia because they had scored more sixes in the tournament—Jess Cameron scored the solitary six.

Blackwell scored 9 out of 14 balls in the first match against South Africa, the only Australian in the first seven batting positions to score at less than 133.33. Australia lost 6/16 in the last four wickets for four runs before being all out for 155 with three balls unused. They ultimately won by 22 runs over 22 runs. Blackwell top-scored with 28 from 26 balls and batted through most of the innings, but she only faced a tiny minority of the 74 balls delivered during her time at the crease on 7/133. With Sthalekar, she had scored 22 runs in 16 balls. As Australia won by nine runs to finish unbeaten at the top of their group, Shanel Daley was rescued from the bowling of Sthalekar.

In the semi-finals, Australia advanced to India to face India. Blackwell defeated opposing captain and all rounder Jhulan Goswami, one of three wickets to fall in the 17th over bowled by Ellyse Perry. Blackwell set a target of 120, and Blackwell promoted herself to No. 2. In the first over, Elyse Villani, the opener, was down for a duck. Blackwell and Nitschke counter-attacked, scoring the next 50 runs in 40 balls before Nitschke was out of 60 runs. Blackwell reached her fifty-in-37 balls but was eventually out for 61 out of 49 balls, with 17 runs still needed from 28 balls for victory. With seven wickets and seven balls to spare, the Australians hit their target, and Blackwell was named the player of the match.

Blackwell was elected to bat in the final against New Zealand, but New Zealand's were more effective. Nitschke and Villani were out in consecutive overs, but Blackwell came in at 2/14 in the fourth over. Blackwell was suspended for a duck from her seventh delivery, leaving Nicola Browne in the gully in the sixth over, leaving the total score at 3/20 in the sixth over. The Australians also increased to 8/106 from their 20 overs.

New Zealand's chase began solidly, but the tide started to turn in the fourth over when their captain Aimee Watkins pulled Clea Smith and the catch was taken by a leaping Blackwell at midwicket. Sara McGlashan was defeated for 1 by Blackwell in the next round after the two men were involved in a mix-up with Suzie Bates, who left New Zealand at 2/19. Blackwell caught Rachel Priest from Nitschke later in the game, leaving them with 71 runs to score from the last 54 runs. Australia went on to win by three runs.

She was named in June 2015 as one of Australia's touring party for the 2015 Women's Ashes in England.

Blackwell was in Australia's squad for the Women's Ashes. In the first WODI of the series, she came to the crease when Australia were 4/87, but still needing 144 runs for victory. She batted for the remainder of the innings, totaling 67 runs and leading Australia to victory in the final over of the match. She appeared in her 250th international match for Australia Women in the third WODI of the series.

Blackwell resigned from international and state service in February 2018. In a 15-year career, she appeared in 251 matches in all three sports. She has described herself as a "good international cricketer," but not necessarily one that is "great." 277 She does not believe she should make a decision about whether she was a good leader; "only my peers can." However, she has expressed her dissatisfaction with her "true self" in the cricket community's continuing evolution, and she has stated that she has continued to strive for the best leader [she] could.

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