10 Cricketers who played other sport

Suzie Bates is one of the most optimum all-rounders in Women’s cricket. Bates walks straightaway into any side on the back of her stellar career figures. She is the leading run-scorer for New Zealand in ODIs with over 4000 runs at 42 including 25 fifties and 10 centuries. She is also the all-time leading run-getter in Women’s T20 Internationals with 3100 runs to her name at an average of 30 to go with a century and 21 fifties.

The former White Ferns skipper has also represented New Zealand in Women’s Basketball in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She was part of Christchurch Sirens in the Australian Women’s National Basketball league (WNBL).  She starred in 24 games between 2007 and 2008 and then moved to Otago Gold Rush in 2009 and the Logan Thunder in 2010. But Bates had to give up Basketball after taking over the New Zealand cricket team captaincy in 2011.

Bates was the star player in the Women’s Big Bash League last year. She has 28 wickets and over 1300 runs and has led her team to their maiden Big Bash semi-final. The all-rounder is a two-time recipient of ICC Women’s ODI cricketer of the year, in 2013 and 2015, and also won the ICC Women’s T20I player of the year in 2015.