Karen Rolton

Australia's greatest women's all-rounder before the modern era — ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2006, World Cup winner and a batter-bowler of exceptional quality whose ability with both bat and ball made her the most complete women's cricketer of the 2000s.

Karen Louise Rolton was born in Adelaide in 1974 and became the most complete cricketer — batting, bowling, fielding and captaincy — in Australian women's cricket history. She played 15 Tests scoring 1,002 runs at 55.67 with 2 centuries, and 106 ODIs scoring 4,814 runs at 52.34 with 10 centuries — making her Australia's all-time ODI leading run-scorer at the time of her retirement. She also took 90 ODI wickets at 25.59. She plays for South Australia. She captained Australia to the 2005 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, scoring 209 not out against the Netherlands in that tournament. She was Wisden Female Cricketer of the Year in 2003 and 2006 — the only player to win the award twice across its first decade. She won the Belinda Clark Award (Australia's women's player of year) in 2005 and 2006. Her left-arm medium pace bowling and power hitting made her the dominant force in women's one-day cricket for a decade. After retirement she became a coaching director in South Australian cricket.

• ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2005 (Australia, captain)
• Wisden Female Cricketer of Year 2003, 2006
• Belinda Clark Award 2005, 2006
• Australia Women all-time leading ODI run-scorer (at retirement)
• ICC Women's Cricket Committee member