Who is Sophie Devine?
Sophie Frances Monique Devine was born on the 1st of September 1989. She is a New Zealand sportswoman, who has represented New Zealand in both cricket for the New Zealand national women’s cricket team (White Ferns), and in field hockey as a member of the New Zealand women’s national field hockey team (Black Sticks Women). She has since focused on cricket. She is known for not wearing a helmet when batting, a rarity in 21st century cricket. In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year.
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 in New Zealand’s squad for the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. Ahead of the tournament, she was named as the star of the team.
In July 2020, Devine was appointed as the captain of the New Zealand women’s cricket team on a full-time basis,[9] taking over from Amy Satterthwaite. In September 2021, in the second match against England, Devine played in her 100th WT20I.
Who is Sophie Devine’s Husband?
Sophia Devine is currently unmarried, as she is noted to have always kept her personal life private. Though there has been a rumour that she is actually married, and that to Alexander John Devine in 1896, at age 16 at marriage place, but this same rumour has been debunked a long time ago.
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In January 2020, she was named as the captain of New Zealand’s squad for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia. On 10 February 2020, in the fourth WT20I match against South Africa, Devine scored her first century in a WT20I match. In the same match, she became the first cricketer (male or female) to make five consecutive scores of fifty or more in T20Is. In New Zealand’s first match of the Women’s T20 World Cup, against Sri Lanka, Devine became the first cricketer, male or female, to make six consecutive scores of fifty or more in T20I cricket. She was the leading run-scorer for New Zealand in the tournament, with 132 runs in four matches.
