Sarah Taylor
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Sarah Jane Taylor (born 20 May 1989) is a retired English cricketer.
In Tests, she is a wicketkeeper-batter known for her free-flowing stroke play, opening the batting in one-day matches and batting in the middle order.
She was a member of the England team that retained the Ashes in Australia in 2008.
She plays county cricket for Sussex.
Following an ongoing anxiety issue, Taylor resigned from all forms of international cricket in September 2019.
Playing career
The inclusion of Taylor and her future England colleague Holly Colvin in the Brighton College boys' team caused a lot of controversies within the MCC.
In the 2nd One Day International at Chelmsford, she scored 120 runs at a run-a-ball, defeating Enid Bakewell's 118 in 1973 as the best individual score against Australia by an Englishwoman. With a first wicket partnership of 268 against South Africa on August 8, 2008, she tied for the best stand in women's One Day International cricket. She went on to score 129.
In England's 10-wicket victory over India on September 1, she became the youngest woman cricketer to score 1000 runs in One Day Internationals. She had scored 1000 runs when she had scored 16.
She was the first female player to play in the Darton first XI at the start of the cricket season. Katherine Brunt, an England bowler, has also been sent to Darton by Katherine Brunt, an England bowler.
In England's victories over the World Cup and the World T20 in 2009, she started the batting for the team. However, she dropped out of England tours in 2010, 2011, including the Ashes match in Australia.
She received the ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year award in 2012 and 2013, and was the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014.
In 2014, she was named ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year.
In 2015, she became the first woman to be inducted in the Legends Lane at the County Cricket Ground in Hove.
When she appeared as wicketkeeper for Northern Districts against Port Adelaide in South Australia's premier men's tournament in 2015, she became Australia's first woman to play men's grade cricket.
Taylor revealed in May 2016 that she had been suffering from anxiety that had been adversely affecting her cricket results. She went from playing to 'prolonging her career.' She returned to action in April 2017 and was selected for the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup in June. In a 68-run victory over South Africa, Tammy Beaumont and Timmy Beaumont tied for the highest 2nd-wicket partnership in Women's Cricket World Cup history (275). Taylor's 147th innings in ODIs was her best in ODIs. Taylor was a member of the winning women's team at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup in England.
She was named in December 2017 as one of the ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year's Best Players. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had a complete central contract for 2019 in February. The ECB selected her in England's squad for their opening match against Australia in June 2019.
Taylor pulled herself from England's squad in July to take time away from the game due to mental health issues. Taylor resigned from international cricket in September 2019 due to her health condition.
Coaching career and playing comeback
Taylor speculated at the prospect of being out of retirement in an interview with ESPNcricinfo in January 2021. "I've got my cricket bag at school, ready to have a net," she said, but she wasn't confident [wasn't] saying no."
Taylor made history by becoming Sussex's first female specialist coach for a senior English men's county team after her appointment as Sussex's first female cricket coach. Taylor's return to playing was announced in April 2021 as she was signed by Welsh Fire for the 2021 season of The Hundred. She also appeared for Sussex in the 2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup and competed for Northern Diamonds as a injury replacement. Taylor was named as assistant coach at Team Abu Dhabi in October 2021, and he worked with Paul Farbrace and Lance Klusener.
In February 2022, it was revealed that she had been appointed as an assistant coach at Manchester Originals for the forthcoming season of The Hundred, both the male and the women's teams, and she hadn't decided against returning to play.
Awards
- ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year – 2012, 2013
- ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year – 2014