10 players to watch in ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier 2017

#4 Kim Garth (Ireland)

Kim Garth is the new face of women’s cricket in Ireland

Coming from a family of sportspersons, Kim Garth is the new face of women’s cricket in Ireland. Popular in the circuit for her incisive bowling, Garth’s reputation was enhanced by being a part of the Sydney Sixers team that won the Women’s Big Bash League 2016-17.

She took six wickets in six games in the WBBL at an average of 22.00 and maintained an economy of 6.00. In the final against Perth Scorchers Women, she dismissed Nicole Bolton, the Australia Women opener, for 34 at a decisive stage of the game.

“I am obviously hugely excited to have been played in the WBBL, let alone win it,” said Garth. “It’s been an amazing experience playing with and against the best players in the world. I have loved every minute of it and learned a huge amount.”

That Garth was in the Sixers’ roster as a part of the International Cricket Council’s Associate Rookie Programme was because of her impressive shows for Ireland in the recent past. Her figures of 10-2-37-3 helped Ireland beat South Africa Women in an ODI for the first time ever, in August last year. She has 51 international wickets in her kitty, which includes a career-best 4 for 11 against Bangladesh Women in 2012 – the best bowling figures by an Ireland bowler since her debut in 2011. She is the only bowler from her country to take three or more wickets in an ODI on four occasions in the last five years.