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Full name | Amy Ellen Jones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Solihull, West Midlands, England | 13 June 1993|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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Test debut (cap 160) | 18 July 2019 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 14 December 2023 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 121) | 1 February 2013 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 14 September 2023 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 33) | 5 July 2013 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 10 December 2023 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008–present | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016–2019 | Loughborough Lightning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016/17–2017/18 | Sydney Sixers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017/18 | Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018/19–2020/21 | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020–present | Central Sparks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021–present | Birmingham Phoenix | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022/23 | Sydney Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023/24–present | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023/24–present | Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CricketArchive, 18 December 2023 |
Amy Ellen Jones is an English cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batter for Warwickshire, Central Sparks, Birmingham Phoenix, Perth Scorchers and England. She made her England debut in 2013 and is a holder of an ECB central contract. [1] [2]
On 8 September 2022, England's captain Nat Sciver announced that she decided to withdraw from their home white ball series against India "to focus on her mental health and well being". [3] In her absence, Jones was named as England's captain for the WT20I and WODI series. [4]
Jones was born in Solihull, West Midlands, [5] and raised in nearby Sutton Coldfield, [6] where she attended John Willmott School. [7] Her first experience of organised sport was playing on a boys' football team for Aston Villa; she then joined Walmley Cricket Club and rose rapidly through the ranks. She has since commented:
"Some of my mates played cricket at the local club and I went down there. They had a girls' team and a successful ladies' team which wasn't common at the time. So, I was lucky and it was quite straightforward. They had good links with Warwickshire and I had a trial at Edgbaston at 13 and I went on from there." [8]
While still in her mid-teens, Jones represented the Warwickshire Academy and began to be selected for England Development and Academy programmes. [5] In 2011, when she was 18, she was called up to the England Women's Academy at Loughborough University. By then, she was an accomplished wicket-keeper, and had already had her keeping assessed on occasional training sessions at the academy. Soon after her callup, she was informed she was to become a full-time member of the academy and deputy to then regular England team wicket-keeper Sarah Taylor. [8]
Jones was the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014. [9] In April 2015, Jones was named as one of the England women's Academy squad tour to Dubai, where England women played their Australian counterparts in two 50-over games, and two Twenty20 matches. [10] A member of the 2015 Women's Ashes squad, she played in the one-day matches but was replaced in the squad by Fran Wilson. [11]
In October 2018, she was named in England's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. [12] [13] In November 2018, she was named in the Perth Scorchers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. [14] [15]
In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for 2019. [16] [17]
In June 2019, the ECB named her in England's squad for their opening match against Australia to contest the Women's Ashes. [18] [19] The following month, she was also named in England's Test squad for the one-off match against Australia. [20] She made her Test debut for England against Australia women on 18 July 2019. [21]
Upon the retirement of Sarah Taylor in late 2019, Jones became the first choice wicket-keeper for the England team. By then, she had already kept wicket in 42 of her 80 England matches across all formats. [22] In January 2020, she was named in England's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. [23]
On 18 June 2020, Jones was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training ahead of international women's fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic. [24] [25] She featured in all five matches, making a match best score of 55 in the fourth T20I. [26]
In June 2021, Jones was named in England's Test squad for their one-off match against India. [27] [28] In December 2021, Jones was named in England's squad for their tour to Australia to contest the Women's Ashes. [29] In February 2022, she was named in England's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand where they finished runners up after losing to Australia. [30]
In April 2022, she was bought by the Birmingham Phoenix for the 2022 season of The Hundred. [31] In June 2022, she was named the 2022 Charlotte Edwards Cup Player of the Year by the PCA, scoring 289 runs in 8 games for Central Sparks, the most across the entire competition. [32] In July 2022, she was named in England's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. [33]
In September 2022, due to the absence of captain Heather Knight and vice captain Nat Sciver, Jones was made captain of England for their home white ball series against India. [34] [35]
Jones is in a relationship with Piepa Cleary, a seam bowler from Australia who plays for the Perth Scorchers. In 2021, after the relationship had been a long-distance one for some years, Cleary relocated to England and started playing for North West Thunder. Jones and Cleary are now both based in Loughborough, Leicestershire. [36]
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