'They didn't like it so much when a girl bowled them out'
Natalie Sciver has a few stories to tell Amy Lofthouse in the BBC, among them the first and only hat-trick by an England women's cricketer in T20s.
01-Sep-2014
England women's allrounder Natalie Sciver has been showing up boys since her teens. She recalls herself as a 12-year old playing football in Poland's women's league, but rose to prominence as a cricketer when she tussled with Surrey's boys in club cricket. Amy Lofthouse of the BBC catches up with the only player to take a hat-trick for England in T20s.
Sciver fell into cricket as a teenager, playing games against her dad and brother in her back garden, before joining Surrey club Stoke d'Abernon. She played the usual games against boys' teams. "They didn't like it so much when a girl bowled them out," she joked. Her performances led to her being selected for Surrey's academy, which became the pathway to an international career that began when she was selected for England's limited-overs series against Pakistan in 2013. It was not until last October that Sciver made her big impact at the top level, becoming the first England player to take a T20 hat-trick in Barbados