Amy Satterthwaite


Amy Ella Satterthwaite is a New Zealand cricketer and current vice-captain of New Zealand's women team, currently plays for the Canterbury Magicians in the New Zealand State League and the Melbourne Renegades in the Australian Women's Big Bash League. She has played internationally for New Zealand in women's One Day Internationals and women's Twenty20 Internationals since 2007, appearing at the Women's Cricket World Cup in 2009 and 2013. On 26 February 2017 against Australia she became the first player in WODI and second overall after Kumar Sangakkara in ODI to score four consecutive hundreds. In December 2017, she won the inaugural ICC Women's ODI Player of the Year award. In September 2018, Suzie Bates stepped down as captain of New Zealand and was replaced by Satterthwaite.
In July 2020, Satterthwaitewas appointed as the vice-captain of the New Zealand women's cricket team, with Sophie Devine appointed as the team's captain on a full-time basis.

Playing career

Domestic career

Satterthwaite made her debut for Canterbury Magicians at limited overs level in 2003.
In 2007, Satterthwaite became captain of the Magicians, initially on a temporary basis due to regular captain Haidee Tiffen having a virus.
In 2016, Satterthwaite was appointed captain of the Lancashire Thunder in the Women's Cricket Super League. She played in five matches for the Thunder in July and August 2016.
During the 2014–15 season, Satterthwaite played nine matches for the Tasmanian Roar; four times in the Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup and five in the Women's National Cricket League.
Satterthwaite signed for the Hobart Hurricanes ahead of the 2015–16 Women's Big Bash League season. In 2016, she resigned for the Hurricanes for the 2016–17 Women's Big Bash League season. In November 2018, she was named in the Melbourne Renegades' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.

International career

Satterthwaite made her international debut for New Zealand against Australia on 19 July 2007 in a Twenty20 International. She made her One Day International debut two days later, also against Australia.
In August 2007, she took six wickets for seventeen runs against England; this remained the only six-wicket haul in a women's T20I match until 20 August 2018 when Botsogo Mpedi of Botswana took 6/8.
Starting during the Pakistan's tour to New Zealand in November 2016, and then into the Australian women's team tour of New Zealand in 2017, Satterthwaite became the first woman to score a century in four consecutive innings in ODIs.
Satterthwaite has captained New Zealand twice in One Day International cricket, the first against Ireland in 2010 and the second against Pakistan in 2016.
During the 2017 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, she equalled the record of Lydia Greenway for taking the most catches in a single Women's Cricket World Cup series
In August 2018, she was awarded a central contract by New Zealand Cricket, following the tours of Ireland and England in the previous months. In October 2018, she was named as captain of New Zealand's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.

Personal life

Satterthwaite was born in Christchurch in 1986 and grew up in Culverden in north Canterbury. Her father, Michael Satterthwaite, represented Canterbury Country in cricket and is a former chairman of Canterbury Cricket. She states that she grew up with cricket and "had a love for the game from when could walk!" Satterthwaite was for many years office manager for a veterinary practice, and since 2015 has been employed by Canterbury Cricket.
In March 2017, she married fellow international cricketer Lea Tahuhu. In August 2019, Satterthwaite announced that she and Tahuhu were expecting their first child and was taking a break from cricket She missed the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia, but hoped to be in the team's squad for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.
On 13 January, 2020, Satterthwaite gave birth to Grace Marie Satterthwaite. As she was contracted for 2019-2020 season, she received full retainer and perform promotional work despite taking a break from playing and training.