Kari Carswell also known as Kari Anderson (born 21 October 1982) is a former Scottish cricketer and coach who was the former captain of the Scotland women's national cricket team.[1][2] She had established a playing and coaching career with Scotland women's cricket team spanning for over two decades. She has received 152 caps in her professional career representing Scotland for 17 years.[3]
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| Full name | Kari Anderson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 October 1982 Stirling, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 1) | 10 August 2001 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 26 July 2003 v Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 17 February, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
She also holds the unique distinction of being part of Scotland women's first international cricket match, as well as serving as coach as well as captain of the Scotland women's cricket team simultaneously at the same time.[4] In addition, she also served as Cricket Scotland's women's development manager. She has also coached New Zealand women at international level. As of June 2021, she is currently serving as the head of women's cricket for both MCC and Middlesex Cricket.[5]
Biography edit
She currently resides in New Zealand. Her husband Andrew Carswell also played professional cricket.[6]
Career edit
She was part of the first ever Scottish women ODI team when she made her WODI debut on 10 August 2001 against England during the 2001 Women's European Cricket Championship at the age of 18. She opened the batting in that match but only managed to score 2 runs and Scotland was bowled out for just 24.[7] On 21 July 2003, in an ODI against Netherlands, she became the youngest ever Scottish women's cricket team captain at the age of 20 years and 373 days and also became the second youngest ever captain in WODIs.[8][9] She ended up as the Scotland's joint leading runscorer at the 2005 Women's European Cricket Championship along with Annette Drummond.[10]
She played 8 WODIs for the Scotland between 2000 and 2003. She was a right-handed batsman and right arm medium pace bowler. She took 8 wickets at 40.05 and scored 133 runs with a best of 46 in her short WODI career as Scotland had lost the ODI status which also subsequently hampered the opportunities for her to play in official matches with international status.[2] However, she continued to play List A, T20 matches and unofficial matches for Scotland until 2017. She also played club cricket for Stirling County Cricket Club. She also became the first Scotland woman cricketer to feature in 150 professional matches. She was part of the Scottish squad which finished at 6th place at the 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.[11]
She initially moved to New Zealand on a two-year work visa. However, she returned to Scotland in no time and was soon appointed as the head coach of Scotland national women's cricket team.[12]
In 2011, she became Scotland women's first women's cricket manager and was player-cum-coach for 2015 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier where they came fourth.[13][14] In January 2016, she stepped down from the role of head coach of Scotland women after serving in the position for five years and she was subsequently replaced by her successor Steven Knox as the head coach of the Scotland women's national cricket team.[15] In addition, she worked as the head coach of the Scotland U17 women's team for a brief stint of two years. She then moved to New Zealand and joined the Northern Districts Association in September 2016 initially started off as the female pathway manager of Northern Districts side.[12] She returned to Scottish team to play at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
In February 2017, Anderson retired from international cricket at the age of 34, following Scotland's exit from the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.[16] In the tournament, she was the highest run-scorer for Scotland, with 111 runs.[17]
After serving as the pathway manager of Northern Districts club she was promoted as amateur cricket manager of the club. When she was appointed as the head coach of Northern Districts and Northern Spirit, she became the first ever full-time women's domestic coach in New Zealand as well as the first female pathway manager in New Zealand.[12] In 2020, she quit the job of coaching the Northern Districts team in order to take up the role of New Zealand women's cricket team head coach.[18][12] She was also instrumental in establishing the Northern Premier League. She also coaches the New Zealand U19 women's cricket team.[19][20]
In June 2021, Abbi Aitken-Drummond equalled her record as Scotland's most capped women's player at professional cricket with 151 caps.[21] On 24 June 2021, she was appointed as the head of the women's cricket for both MCC and Middlesex Cricket.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Kari Anderson". Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Kari Carswell". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Scotland Women bid emotional goodbye to Kari Anderson". icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ June 2014, John Pennington Monday 16. "Scotland Women Swap Bats For Batons". Cricket World. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "MCC and Middlesex appoint Kari Carswell as Head of Women's Cricket | Lord's". lords.org. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Andrew Carswell". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of ENG Women vs Scot Women 1st Match 2001 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | Individual records (captains, players, umpires) | Youngest captains | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of Neth Women vs Scot Women 2nd Match 2003 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Full Scorecard of Zim Women vs Scot Women 5th place play-off 2007/08 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Kari Carswell leaves ND to take-up NZC role - News". ND Cricket. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ Anderson growing the game for women Archived 25 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Scotland squad for WWT20Q
- ^ "Carswell steps down as Scots coach". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Kari Anderson Retires". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "Records: ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier, 2016/17: Most runs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ Staff, Women's CricZone. "Kari Carswell steps down as head coach of Northern Spirit". Women's CricZone. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "New Zealand women's under-19 side to face the long overarm of the law". Stuff. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Embedding female leaders in heart of NZ sports". Newsroom. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Scotland off to a flyer with T20 victory in Ireland by 11 runs". The Scotsman. Retrieved 25 June 2021.