England's most successful women's cricket captain — led England to four Ashes series victories, the 2009 World Cup and the 2009 World Twenty20, the most decorated captain in English women's cricket history with 309 international appearances.
Charlotte Marie Edwards was born in Huntingdon in 1979 and became England Women's most successful captain and leading run-scorer across all formats. She played 23 Tests scoring 1,676 runs with 5 centuries, and 191 ODIs scoring 5,992 runs at 39.42 — the most by any England woman in ODI history. She captained England to the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup in Australia and the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20 in the same calendar year — the first captain of either gender to win both global titles in the same year. She was Wisden Female Cricketer of the Year in 2009 and ECB Women's Player of the Year in 2009. She retired in 2016 having captained England 137 times in ODIs and 90 times in T20 internationals — records for women's cricket. She was awarded the OBE in 2015. She played county cricket for Kent. After retirement she became a television cricket commentator and a driving force in developing the women's game's domestic structure in England.
ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2009 (England, captain)
Career Honours
- ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2009 (England, captain)
- ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2009 (England, captain)
- Wisden Female Cricketer of Year 2009
- ECB Women's Player of Year 2009
- OBE 2015
- England Women all-time leading run-scorer