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Beth Langston

Bethany Alicia Langston (born 6 September 1992) is an English cricketer who played six matches for the England women's cricket team: twice in 2013 and four times in 2016.[1] Predominantly a medium-pace bowler, she began her cricket career with Essex in 2009, before moving to Yorkshire in 2016. She also played in the Women's Cricket Super League for both the Loughborough Lightning and the Yorkshire Diamonds.

Beth Langston
Personal information
Full name
Bethany Alicia Langston
Born (1992-09-06) 6 September 1992 (age 31)
Harold Wood, Essex, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBowler
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 129)9 November 2016 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI17 November 2016 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no.42
T20I debut (cap 37)24 October 2013 v West Indies
Last T20I26 October 2013 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2009–2015Essex
2016–presentYorkshire
2016–2017Loughborough Lightning
2016/17–2017/18Otago
2018–2019Yorkshire Diamonds
2020–presentNorthern Diamonds
2021–2022Northern Superchargers
Career statistics
Competition WODI WT20I WLA WT20
Matches 4 2 108 95
Runs scored 21 – 1,076 735
Batting average 21.00 – 18.55 19.34
100s/50s 0/0 – 0/4 0/1
Top score 21 – 96 50
Balls bowled 186 48 5,234 1,598
Wickets 2 1 143 54
Bowling average 47.00 44.00 21.55 31.37
5 wickets in innings 0 0 2 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/23 1/16 7/23 4/11
Catches/stumpings 2/– 1/– 25/– 11/–
Source: CricketArchive, 5 October 2023

Life and career edit

Bethany Alicia Langston was born on 6 September 1992 in Harold Wood, Essex.[1] She attended Hall Mead School, and started playing cricket at Upminster Cricket Club, where her three older brothers played, and her parents were vice presidents.[2] She later joined Loughton Cricket Club, who had a strong women's team.[3] She made her debut for the Essex team in women's county cricket in 2009.[4] Four years later, she was included in a 21-player "England Women's Performance Squad", and was chosen as a member of the England team to take part in the 2013–14 tour of the West Indies.[5] She played in two Women's Twenty20 Internationals during the tour: the only ones of her career.[1] In the first, a tied match, she opened the bowling for England, and took one wicket.[6] In the second, an eight-wicket loss, she bowled four overs without taking a wicket, while conceding 28 runs.[7]

After her tour of the West Indies, Langston suffered a stress fracture in her back, and although she remained a part of the England set-up, she was not selected as part of a squad again until 2015, when she took part in the England women's academy trip to Dubai to face an equivalent Australian team.[8] She was again part of the academy squad the following year, travelling to Sri Lanka to take part in a tri-series against Australia A and Sri Lanka,[9] during which she claimed eight wickets at an average of 17.12.[10] For the 2016 domestic season, Langston switched from Essex to Yorkshire, a move that she explained as allowing her to keep playing top-level cricket: "Unfortunately, Essex had gone down a couple of divisions and I wanted to try and play first-division cricket."[11]

Later that year, Langston was recalled to the England team for the 2016–17 tour of the West Indies: she was initially expected to have to miss the tour due to a broken thumb, but it healed well, and she was included in the squad.[12] Ultimately, Langston did not play during the tour, but retained her place in the squad for the subsequent visit to Sri Lanka.[13] She made her One Day International debut during the first match of the series, taking one wicket during a large win for England.[14] She made all four of her One Day International appearances during that tour, picking up one more wicket.[1] After the conclusion of the series, she was granted a "rookie contract" with England, which the England coach Mark Robinson said allowed them "to financially support players who sit just above the England Women's senior academy squad, but who have not quite hit the level required to win a full central contract."[15]

After spending the 2016–17 season with the Otago Sparks in New Zealand,[11] Langston was named as part of the England squad for the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup.[16] England went on to win the tournament, though Langston did not play.[17] In 2018, after playing two seasons in the Women's Cricket Super League with the Loughborough Lightning, Langston was moved to the Yorkshire Diamonds, in a switch described by the head of the league as helping "to ensure the best balance between the six sides and to maintain a fair and competitive competition".[18] In 2019, Langston's England central contract was not renewed.[17] In 2020 Langston was chosen as part of the Northern Diamonds squad in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.[19] In 2021, she was Northern Diamonds' leading wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, with 13 wickets, as well as playing for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred.[20][21]

In December 2021, Langston was named in England's A squad for their tour to Australia, with the matches being played alongside the Women's Ashes.[22] In April 2022, she was bought by the Northern Superchargers for the 2022 season of The Hundred.[23]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Player profile: Beth Langston". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Upminster captain Ison delighted for Langston". Romford Recorder. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  3. ^ Roome, Kevin (13 November 2016). "Langston impresses in England victories". Upminster Cricket Club. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Player profile: Beth Langston". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Youthful squad to tour West Indes". ESPNcricinfo. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Result: 6th Match (N), Bridgetown, Oct 24 2013, West Indies Tri-Nation Twenty20". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Result: Final (N), Bridgetown, Oct 26 2013, West Indies Tri-Nation Twenty20". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  8. ^ Rush, Richard (5 April 2015). "Langston earns England call-up after back injury". Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  9. ^ "England Academy Women Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Women's A-team Tri-series (in Sri Lanka), 2016 / Records / Bowling averages". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  11. ^ a b Seconi, Adrian (25 November 2016). "International adds spark". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Langston, Ecclestone selected in ODI squad". ESPNcricinfo. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  13. ^ "Shrubsole, Ecclestone miss Sri Lanka tour". ESPNcricinfo. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  14. ^ "Result: 1st ODI, Colombo (SSC), Nov 9 2016, England Women tour of Sri Lanka". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  15. ^ "Sarah Taylor named in England's upgraded contracts". ESPNcricinfo. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  16. ^ "England announce squad for ICC Women's World Cup". Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  17. ^ a b "ECB awards 17 full-time contracts to England Women". Belfast Telegraph. 6 February 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  18. ^ "Taylor, Hartley, Beaumont among KSL switches". ESPNcricinfo. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  19. ^ "Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy 2020 squads: Full player list for all teams". The Cricketer. 21 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  20. ^ "Records/Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy 2021 - Northern Diamonds/Batting and Bowling Averages". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  21. ^ "Records/The Hundred Women's Competition, 2021 - Northern Superchargers (Women)/Batting and Bowling Averages". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  22. ^ "Heather Knight vows to 'fight fire with fire' during Women's Ashes". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  23. ^ "The Hundred 2022: latest squads as Draft picks revealed". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 April 2022.

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