Chloe Greechan

Chloe Greechan
Personal information
Full name
Chloe May Greechan[1]
Born (2000-09-22) 22 September 2000 (age 24)[1]
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLeft-arm medium
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
T20I debut (cap 4)31 May 2019 v Guernsey
Last T20I27 July 2024 v Italy
Career statistics
Competition WT20I
Matches 29
Runs scored 217
Batting average 15.50
100s/50s –/–
Top score 27
Balls bowled 647
Wickets 37
Bowling average 10.13
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5/4
Catches/stumpings 9/–
Source: Cricinfo, 28 July 2024
Chloe Greechan
Sport
SportBowls
Medal record
Representing  Jersey
Indoor bowls
IIBC Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Mixed Pairs
Gold medal – first place 2016 Mixed Pairs
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Ayr pairs

Chloe May Greechan (born 22 September 2000) is a sportswoman from Jersey. She plays for the Jersey women's cricket team, for which she has been captain since 2020, and is the first woman from the island to take a five-wicket haul in WT20Is. Greechan is also a former world champion in indoor bowls.

Cricket career

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Having represented Jersey since she was 13-years-old,[2] Greechan played in the island's first officially recognised WT20I against neighbours Guernsey for the 2019 T20 Inter-Insular Cup on 31 May 2019. Batting at number six, she scored 4 not out in her side's innings before taking the new ball and sending down Jersey's first-ever WT20I delivery, going on to take one wicket for 20 runs in her four overs.[3][4]

Later that year she won the best fielder award as Jersey finished second at the France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series.[5]

Appointed captain of the national team in 2020,[2] Greechan won the Jersey Cricket Women's Cricketer of the Year award in 2021 and again in 2022,[6] the latter coming after she led the islanders to victory at the 2022 France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series[7][8] and a 3–0 sweep in the newly expanded Women's Inter-Insular Cup.[9][10]

At the 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier division two tournament, Greechan finished as the competition's leading wicket-taker with 11 dismissals to her name.[11] That total included figures of 5/4 in a 108-run win against Sweden with three of her four overs being maidens. This made Greechan the first Jersey player to take a five-wicket haul in WT20Is.[12][13][14]

Greechan had a trial at English professional club Sunrisers in 2023.[11]

During the 2024 WT20I Inter-insular Cup, which had reverted to a one-off match, Greechan conceded just two runs from her three overs and scored 14 not out as Jersey defeated Guernsey by 104 runs to retain the title for the third successive year at Grainville Cricket Ground in St Saviour.[15][16]

In August 2024, Greechan was among the British and Irish Roses squad selected to take on Team Europe in the inaugural Meltl Shield, a nine-match T10 competition, held at Roma Cricket Ground in Rome, Italy.[17]

Bowls career

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In April 2015, aged just 14, Greechan won the IIBC Championships Mixed Pairs world title with her father, Thomas.[18][19] She retained the crown a year later alongside Malcolm De Sousa.[20]

Greechan won the 2023 Channel Islands Indoor Bowls Championship women's pairs title with Megan Kivlin, defeating Guernsey duo Alison Merrien and Shirley Petit in the final.[21]

In May 2024, she was selected to represent Jersey at the 2024 European Bowls Championships, held in September in Ayr, Scotland.[22] At the competition in September that year, she won a bronze medal in the pairs with her mother Lindsey, winning four of their five group matches before losing in the semi-finals to England and defeating hosts Scotland in the third-place playoff.[23][24]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Profile of Chloe Greechan". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  2. ^ a b "Super‌ ‌action‌ ‌in‌ ‌Jersey‌ ‌before‌ ‌the‌ ‌Super‌ ‌Series‌". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  3. ^ "Jersey play their first official T20 Internationals". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Guernsey Women vs Jersey Women". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  5. ^ "Young cricketers take second in "unbelievable" tournament". Bailiwick Express. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
  6. ^ "Familiar faces take Jersey Cricket's top prize". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  7. ^ "Jersey Women on the up". Jerseys Evening Post. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
  8. ^ "Unbeaten Jersey make it four-in-four to win Quadrangular T20I trophy in France". womenscriczone.com. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
  9. ^ "A home hat-trick". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
  10. ^ "'Our journey is just beginning'". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
  11. ^ a b "Jersey invite English sides to play in 2024 tournament". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  12. ^ "T20 World Cup qualifier: Jersey thrash Sweden by 108 runs for record victory". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  13. ^ "Jersey aim to build on record-breaking week of cricket". The Gantry. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  14. ^ "Jersey Women vs Sweden Women". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  15. ^ "Jersey Miles ahead in inter-insular win". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  16. ^ "Jersey Women vs Guernsey Women 2024". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  17. ^ "Five Jersey women selected for Roses". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  18. ^ "Jersey teenager crowned youngest ever World Bowls Champion". ITV. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  19. ^ "Bowls: CI bowlers secure world titles". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  20. ^ "Chloe Greechan: Jersey teenager wins second World Indoor Bowls Council title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  21. ^ "CI champion Merrien ready for return to Potters". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  22. ^ "Team Announcement European Championships Ayr, 2024 Selected For Bowls Jersey". Bowls International. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  23. ^ "Medal haul for Bowls Jersey in European Champs". Bailwick Express. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  24. ^ "Davis and Greechan star in top tournament". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
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