Isabelle Wong

Some Lesser Known Facts About Isabelle Wong

• Isabelle Wong is a British cricketer who is regarded as one of the best-emerging bowlers in England. She has played in many tournaments including The Hundred, Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL), and Women’s Premier League (WPL).

• At the age of five, her family moved to Warwickshire, where she started to attend a cricket camp conducted after school timings. She was one of the two girl cricketers in the groups of 50 boys at the Chance to Shine cricket camp.

• At the age of eight, she started training at Knowle and Dorridge Cricket Club.

• She showed talent at a young age and was selected for the under-11 Warwickshire team at the age of nine.

• In 2015, she founded the women’s section of Berkswell Cricket Club with other fellow cricketers.

• In 2018, she played for the Worcestershire team.

• In 2018, she played in the School Games National Cricket Finals, and in 2019, she became the first girl to be selected for the Shrewsbury School’s Boys 1st XI.

• In 2019, she won the Women’s T20 Cup with Warwickshire senior team and won the national competition with the under-17 Warwickshire team.

  

• She was selected for the England Academy squad for the 2019-20 season.

• She played for Southern Vipers in the 2019 Women’s Cricket Super League.

• In 2020, she signed up with West Midlands regional hub team.

• In 2020, she played for the Central Sparks team in the inaugural edition of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.

• In December 2020, she also signed up a full-time domestic contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board.

• In the 2021 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, she took 11 wickets and emerged as the third-highest wicket-taker.

• In December 2021, she was selected for the England-A team for the series against Australia.

• She played in 2020, 2021, and 2022 editions of the 100-ball tournament The Hundred for Birmingham Phoenix.

• In the 2021-22 season of WBBL, she played for Sydney Thunder and took 7 wickets for them in the season. She also played a wonderful inning with the bat by scoring 43 runs off 17 balls against Adelaide Strikers which included 6 sixes.

• In the 2022-23 season of WBBL, she signed up for Hobart Hurricanes; however, she got injured and did not play any matches in the season.

• Mumbai Indians signed her for the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League in the 2023 auction for the base price of Rs 30 lakhs.

• Her favourite person is Fernando Torres, and her favourite cricketer is fellow English player Katherine Sciver-Brunt.

• Cars is her favourite film, and Lightning McQueen is her favourite character from the movie.

• Apart from cricket, she likes playing football, and Liverpool is her favourite football team.

• During the final match of the 2019 Women’s Cricket Super League, she solved a Rubik’s Cube in 33 seconds.