Alice Capsey

A composed 73 not out off 75 balls for South East Stars a month after her 16th birthday in the final game of the 2020 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy followed by an excellent 3 for 13 in the Charlotte Edwards Cup the following season set tongues wagging about this precocious talent. But it was during Oval Invincibles' triumphant campaign in the inaugural Hundred that Alice Capsey burst into wider recognition, scoring 150 runs across the tournament at a higher strike rate than any of her top-order colleagues while also bagging ten wickets.

An England A call-up came for their first tour of Australia at the end of the year, and she progressed to the senior ranks during South Africa's visit to England in 2022, taking a wicket on debut aged 17 in the first T20I and scoring 25 in the second. Capsey opened England's Commonwealth Games campaign with 44 at No. 3 against Sri Lanka and she scored her maiden international fifty against South Africa in the next game.

Capsey became a sought-after franchise player soon, featuring in the 2022 WBBL and securing a lucrative deal with Delhi Capitals at the inaugural WPL auction. Over a two-year period from July 2022, Capsey played a staggering 93 top-level T20 matches and ended up taking a break from domestic cricket to concentrate on tours by Pakistan and New Zealand in 2024.

After a lacklustre T20 World Cup, Capsey was initially left out of England's touring party headed to South Africa at the end of that year, but received a late call-up as injury cover and scored 8 in her only ODI innings. Lean returns away to Australia and at home against West Indies and India had her heading to the 2025 World Cup with something of a point to prove.