Isobel_Joyce

Isobel Joyce

Isobel Joyce

Irish cricketer


Isobel Mary Helen Cecilia Joyce (born 25 July 1983) is an Irish former cricketer. She played as a right-handed batter and left-arm medium pace bowler. She appeared in one Test match, 79 One Day Internationals and 55 Twenty20 Internationals for Ireland between 1999 and 2018. She played in her final match for Ireland in November 2018, during the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament.[1] She played domestic cricket for Scorchers, Tasmania and Hobart Hurricanes.[2][3]

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Playing career

Joyce made her debut for Ireland in a One-Day International (ODI) against India in Milton Keynes in June 1999.[4] She then played in the Women's European Championship the following month.[5] In 2000, she played four ODIs against Pakistan[6] and played her only Test match, also against Pakistan.[7] This has been Ireland's women's team's only Test match to date.[8] Joyce played in the Women's World Cup in New Zealand towards the end of the year.

Since the 2000 World Cup, she has played ODIs against Australia, India, the Netherlands and New Zealand,[6] also playing in the European Championship in 2001[9] and 2005,[10] and in the IWCC Trophy in the Netherlands in 2003.[11]

In April 2016, she stepped down as captain of the Ireland women's cricket team following their exit at the group stages of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India. She captained Ireland in 62 matches across all formats of the games including two ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournaments.[12][13]

She was part of Ireland's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.[14] In October 2018, she was named in Ireland's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[15][16] The following month, she was named the Female Club Player of the Year at the annual Cricket Ireland Awards.[17]

Family

Joyce is one of nine children of James "Jimmy" and Maureen Joyce.[18][19] Joyce comes from a cricketing family.[20] Her twin sister Cecelia has also played for the Irish women's team, whilst three of her brothers, Dominick, Ed and Gus have played for the Ireland men's team. Ed has also played cricket for England. Her mother Maureen was a cricket scorer.[21][20] She was also scorer in two WODIs in 2002 when New Zealand women toured to Netherlands and Ireland.[22]

Isobel married former Irish cricketer John Anderson. Thus they became one of the very few cricketing couples to play international cricket.[3]

Field hockey

In 2009–10, together with her sister Cecelia, Kate McKenna, Emer Lucey and Nicola Evans, Joyce was a member of the Railway Union team that won the Women's Irish Hockey League title.[23][24][25][26]


References

  1. "Ireland stalwarts bow out of international cricket". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  2. "Player Profile: Isobel Joyce". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  3. "Player Profile: Isobel Joyce". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  4. Women's ODIs played by Isobel Joyce Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine at CricketArchive
  5. "Final squad named for World T20, Raack set for Ireland debut". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  6. "Laura Delany to lead 'strong and experienced' Irish side at World T20". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  7. Wigmore, Tim (June 2016). "The first family of cricket". The Cricket Monthly. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016.
  8. Hariharan, Shruti (21 March 2016). "The Joyces: Ireland's greatest cricketing family". Cricket Country. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016.
  9. "CBP Ep.5: The Joy(ce)s of cricket". Women's CricZone. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  10. "Profile: Maureen Joyce". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  11. "Maureen Joyce as Scorer in Women's ODI Matches". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  12. "Hockey: History for Railway". www.independent.ie. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  13. "No stopping Railway at full steam". www.irishtimes.com. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  14. "Emphatic Railway claim maiden outdoor title". www.hookhockey.com. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  15. "Joyce getting used to mixing it with world's best as Railway take on Dutch giants Den Bosch". www.hookhockey.com. 16 April 2014. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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