Leah Poulton

Quick Facts

Full Name	Leah Poulton
Occupation	Cricket Player
Date Of Birth	Feb 27, 1984(1984-02-27)
Age	40
Birthplace	Newcastle
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Pisces

Leah Poulton Biography

Leah Poulton is one of the most popular and richest Cricket Player who was born on February 27, 1984 in Newcastle, Australia. Specialist batsman who notably represented Australia at the 2009 Cricket World Cup.

At the World Cup she was teammates with Jess Cameron.

In March 2000, soon after turning 16, she played for New South Wales in the national Under-17 championships. She scored 141 runs at a batting average of 23.50 and took two wickets at a bowling average of 15.50 as New South Wales defeated Victoria Blue to win the competition. In January 2002, she was selected for the state Under-19 team and scored 112 in the first match, against the Australian Capital Territory. She also made two ducks and ended the tournament with 188 runs at 31.33; New South Wales won all of their six matches.

Poulton came to prominence in youth cricket by captaining New South Wales to the Under-17 national championships in 2000. In 2002–03, she made her senior debut for New South Wales in the Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL). She found runs hard to come by in her first three seasons and was in and out of the team frequently, aggregating only 24 runs in her second and third seasons combined. Despite this, she regularly captained Australia’s Under-19 and Under-23 teams during this time, leading the latter on a successful tour of Sri Lanka in 2004. In 2005–06, made a substantial impact on the WNCL for the first time, scoring 325 runs, more than twice her previous best season’s total, playing in the first of five consecutive WNCL triumphs for New South Wales.

She was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Leah Poulton Net Worth

Leah Poulton is one of the richest Cricket Player from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leah Poulton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She starred for New South Wales at the U-17 national championships when she was 16.

She made her senior first-class debut in 2002 for the New South Wales Breakers.

Leah Joy Poulton (born 27 February 1984) is an Australian cricketer who plays for New South Wales and Australia. She is a specialist batsman who usually opens the batting.

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Poulton returned to form in the 2005–06 WNCL season, playing in all of New South Wales’ 11 matches. After being run out for 39 in the first match against Western Australia, she made consecutive half-centuries against Western Australia and Queensland. New South Wales won seven of their eight round-robin matches to qualify to host the three-match finals series against Queensland. Up to this point, Poulton had only scored 24 runs at 6.00 in four WNCL finals matches and had been dropped ahead of the deciding series the previous season. In the first match at North Sydney Oval, Poulton top-scored with an unbeaten 70 to guide New South Wales to their target of 175 for an eight-wicket win. She made 28 of her state’s 154 as Queensland took the series to a deciding match with a three-wicket win in the second match. Poulton was dismissed for five in the deciding match as New South Wales were bowled out for 146, before dismissing the visitors for 144 to claim a two-run win and the WNCL. She ended the season with 325 runs at 32.50 as New South Wales won 9 of their 11 matches to claim the title. Poulton bowled for the first time in the WNCL, conceding 18 runs from two overs.

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These performances were not enough to gain selection in the Test and one-day series against India held in Adelaide immediately after the WNCL. However, Poulton was called up for her senior international debut against New Zealand in the Rose Bowl series staged at Allan Border Field in Brisbane at the start of the 2006–07 season because of an injury to fellow New South Wales batsman Alex Blackwell. The chairman of selectors Margaret Jennings said “She is a talented player with a free-flowing game, and we are keen to see how she performs against New Zealand, whom we expect to provide some very tough competition.” Poulton played in all of the matches. She made 10 in her Twenty20 international debut and the match ended in a tie.