Isabelle Westbury
{{short description|English cricketer and journalist}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Isabelle Westbury
| female = true
| image = Isabelle Westbury 20191205.jpg
| caption = Westbury in 2019
| fullname = Isabelle Mary Geraldine Westbury
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|03|08|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Hammersmith, London, England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm off break
| role = Bowler
| country = Netherlands
| international = true
| internationalspan = 2005
| oneodi = true
| odidebutdate = 19 August
| odidebutyear = 2005
| odidebutagainst = Ireland
| odicap = 67
| club1 = Somerset
| year1 = 2007–2012
| club2 = Middlesex
| year2 = 2013–2017
| club3 = Western Storm
| year3 = 2016
| columns = 3
| column1 = WODI
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 0
| bat avg1 = 0.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 0
| deliveries1 = 60
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| column2 = WLA
| matches2 = 56
| runs2 = 461
| bat avg2 = 12.13
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 43
| deliveries2 = 2,281
| wickets2 = 66
| bowl avg2 = 22.93
| fivefor2 = 1
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 5/20
| catches/stumpings2 = 30/0
| column3 = WT20
| matches3 = 28
| runs3 = 198
| bat avg3 = 13.20
| 100s/50s3 = 0/0
| top score3 = 33*
| deliveries3 = 540
| wickets3 = 36
| bowl avg3 = 13.50
| fivefor3 = 0
| tenfor3 = 0
| best bowling3 = 4/15
| catches/stumpings3 = 8/–
| date = 3 January
| year = 2022
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/88100.html CricketArchive
}}
File:Isabelle Westbury running.jpg
Isabelle “Izzy” Westbury (born 8 March 1990) is a sports writer, broadcaster, lawyer and former cricketer.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/isabelle-westbury/ |date=7 November 2019|title=The Telegraph – Isabelle Westbury |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/person/320402/isabelle-westbury |work=The Law Society |date=8 November 2019|title=Isabelle Westbury |access-date=3 January 2022}} As a cricketer, she played as a right-arm off break bowler, playing for Somerset and Middlesex, as well as being part of the Western Storm squad in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/squad/995401.html|date=8 November 2019|title=ESPNCricinfo – Western Storm 2016 |work=ESPNCricinfo}} She captained Middlesex for two seasons, in 2015 and 2016. Westbury also appeared in one One Day International.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/isabelle-westbury-216637 |title=Player Profile: Isabelle Westbury|work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/88100.html |title=Player Profile: Izzy Westbury |work=CricketArchive |access-date=3 January 2022}}
She was President of the Oxford Union in 2011–12.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8853595/Oxford-Union-takes-a-pop-at-David-Cameron.html |date=28 October 2011|first=Tim|last=Walker|title=Oxford Union takes a pop at David Cameron |work=The Daily Telegraph}} Westbury retired from playing cricket in 2017 and went on to work as a print and broadcast journalist for The Daily Telegraph and the BBC.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/isabelle-westbury |title=Isabelle Westbury |work=The Guardian |access-date=3 January 2022}} She is also a criminal lawyer.
Early life
Born in Hammersmith, London, Westbury experienced a nomadic childhood, living in Mongolia, Malaysia, Easter Island and Syria before arriving in the Netherlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.cherwell.org/2010/02/06/the-pro |title=The Pro |work=Cherwell |publisher=Oxford Student Publications Ltd. |last=Lester |first=James |date=6 February 2010 |access-date=23 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117125558/http://www.cherwell.org/2010/02/06/the-pro/|archive-date=17 November 2016|url-status=live}} She attended The British School in the Netherlands from 2001 to 2006.{{cite web|title=Player Profile: Izzy Westbury|url=http://www.mccuniversities.org/oxford/player-profiles/izzy-westbury,246,PP.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308113552/http://www.mccuniversities.org/oxford/player-profiles/izzy-westbury,246,PP.html|archive-date=8 March 2012|access-date=23 July 2021|publisher=MCC University}} It was in the Netherlands that she first started playing cricket, after being prevented from playing club football alongside boys beyond the age of 13, at the "very traditional club" near her house.
Westbury studied for an undergraduate degree in Physiology at Hertford College, Oxford, graduating in 2013. In addition to her cricket career, she also played hockey for Oxford, achieving her Blue by playing in the Varsity Hockey Match against Cambridge in March 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.northlondon-today.co.uk/tn/Sport.cfm?id=7671&headline=Varsity%20Hockey%20action%20sees%20Oxford%20enjoy%20double%20delight |title=Varsity Hockey action sees Oxford enjoy double delight |work=North London Press |publisher=Tindle Newspapers Ltd. |date=4 March 2010 |access-date=23 June 2010}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}} In 2011, she was elected as President of the Oxford Union, having earlier served as the society's secretary,{{cite web|url=http://www.cherwell.org/content/11598|title=Union Tribunal goes West for Jack Sennett|publisher=Oxford Student Publications Limited|work=Cherwell|date=14 March 2011|access-date=18 March 2011|archive-date=18 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318204020/http://cherwell.org/content/11598|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cherwell.org/content/11146|title=Union Election Results|publisher=Oxford Student Publications Limited|work=Cherwell|date=30 November 2010|access-date=14 December 2010|archive-date=14 April 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414105830/http://www.cherwell.org/content/11146|url-status=dead}} and was described as "the most engaging president that the Oxford Union has had in years".
Cricket career
=The Netherlands=
At the age of thirteen, Westbury began to play boys cricket for The Hague Cricket Club, and at the age of fourteen she was picked for the national side, making her first appearance at the 2004 European Under-21 Championships.{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Other_matches.html |title=Other matches played by Izzy Westbury (23) |work=CricketArchive |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 June 2010 |archive-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103225043/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Other_matches.html |url-status=dead }}
In 2005, aged 15, Westbury represented the senior Netherlands side for the first time during the 2005 European Championship in Wales.{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Womens_ListA_Matches.html |title=Women's ListA Matches played by Izzy Westbury (22) |work=CricketArchive |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 June 2010 |archive-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103225130/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Womens_ListA_Matches.html |url-status=dead }}
=England=
Westbury started at Millfield School in Street, Somerset in 2006 on a sports scholarship. She joined Somerset for the 2007 County Championship.
Remaining with Somerset in 2008, she claimed her first wicket for the county during their first match of the season, having Surrey opener Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent caught.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/133/133097.html |title=Surrey Women v Somerset Women |work=CricketArchive|url-access=subscription |date=18 May 2008 |access-date=23 June 2010}} She appeared in the Super Fours—a competition in which the England selectors place the 48 leading players into four teams—for the first time in 2008, representing the Diamonds in both the 50-over and 20-over forms of the game.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Womens_Twenty20_Matches.html |title=Women's Twenty20 Matches played by Izzy Westbury (2) |work=CricketArchive|url-access=subscription |access-date=23 June 2010}}
In January 2010, Westbury was named as part of the England Academy squad for the High Performance Camp in Bangalore, India.{{cite web|url=http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/womens/england-women-and-international/shaw-names-academy-squad,309073,EN.html |title=Academy squad named for Bangalore |publisher=England and Wales Cricket Board |date=28 January 2010 |access-date=23 June 2010}} Westbury joined Middlesex in 2013, and was made captain the following year.{{cite web|url=http://www.westlondonsport.com/sport/football-wls-news-in-brief-fulham-u21s-lose-blues-to-face-liverpool-qpr-youngster-gets-award |title=News in brief: Fulham U21s lose, Blues face Liverpool, Petrasso award |work=West London Sport |date=17 December 2014 |access-date=22 August 2016}} In 2016, she signed for the Western Storm in the inaugural Kia Super League. Westbury retired from playing cricket the following season.
Legal career
Westbury qualified as a lawyer in 2018, and serves as a Legal Officer in the Royal Air Force.[https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/person/320402/isabelle-westbury Isabelle Westbury], lawsociety.org.uk, accessed 22 November 2022 She has a specialism in criminal law.
References
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External links
- {{cricinfo|id=216637}}
- {{cricketarchive|id=88100}}
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