Karen Rolton

Australia

Full name Karen Louise Rolton

Born November 21, 1974, Adelaide, South Australia

Current age 45 years 135 days

Major teams Australia Women, South Australia Women

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Left-arm medium

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	14	22	4	1002	209*	55.66	1782	56.22	2	5	136	1	9
ODIs	141	132	32	4814	154*	48.14			8	33			25
T20Is	15	12	4	405	96*	50.62	322	125.77	0	2	55	4	6

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
Tests	14	20	1104	327	14	2/6	4/68	23.35	1.77	78.8	0
ODIs	141	92	3267	1769	85	4/29	4/29	20.81	3.24	38.4	1
T20Is	15	2	36	37	3	2/26	2/26	12.33	6.16	12.0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	New Zealand Women v Australia Women at Christchurch, Feb 28-Mar 3, 1995 scorecard
Last Test	England Women v Australia Women at Worcester, Jul 10-13, 2009 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	New Zealand Women v Australia Women at Wanganui, Feb 14, 1995 scorecard
Last ODI	England Women v Australia Women at Wormsley, Jul 5, 2009 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	England Women v Australia Women at Taunton, Sep 2, 2005 scorecard
Last T20I	England Women v Australia Women at Derby, Jun 25, 2009 scorecard
T20I statistics

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
40, 0/27	SAust Women	v Vic Women	Melbourne	30 Jan 2011	Other T20
31*	SAust Women	v Vic Women	Melbourne	29 Jan 2011	Other OD
1/37, 33	SAust Women	v Vic Women	Melbourne	28 Jan 2011	Other T20
2/21, 2	SAust Women	v NSW Women	Adelaide	6 Jan 2011	Other T20
36	SAust Women	v NSW Women	Adelaide	5 Jan 2011	Other OD
1/23, 48	SAust Women	v NSW Women	Adelaide	4 Jan 2011	Other T20
2/12, 50*	SAust Women	v ACT Women	Adelaide	12 Dec 2010	Other T20
54	SAust Women	v ACT Women	Adelaide	11 Dec 2010	Other OD
36, 1/9	SAust Women	v ACT Women	Adelaide	10 Dec 2010	Other T20
58*, 1/13	SAust Women	v Tas Women	Adelaide	28 Nov 2010	Other T20

Profile

Karen Rolton was a key member of the Australian side for more than a decade, and was given the captaincy in February 2006 replacing Belinda Clark under whom she was vice-captain since 1997. A fluent and quick-scoring top-order batsman (and erstwhile left-arm medium-pacer until she got injured) Rolton was a major part of Australia's success, as underlined by her superb hundred which won her the Player-of-the-Match award in the 2005 World Cup final. Equally adept in both Tests and ODIs, in 2001 she scored 209 not out against England at Headingley, breaking the then women's world record Test score, and that her average in the mid 70s speaks volumes. In her first series as captain Rolton helped Australia to a 3-0 home series win against India in the one-dayers.

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