Bronwyn Calver

Bronwyn Lianne Calver (born 22 September 1969) is a former Australian cricketer who played as an all-rounder for the national team. She participated in two World Cups, in 1993 and in 1997, and was part of the winning team in the latter tournament.

Early life Calver and her family moved from Broadmeadows to Canberra in 1980. After being alerted to cricket by a school flyer saying "Junior cricketers wanted", she started playing the game at the age of 11 in the 1980–81 season. On some weekends in the early 1980s, she would participate in a junior boys' game and in lower-grade men's cricket on the Saturday, and then take part in the schoolgirls' and senior women's competitions on the Sunday.

For about seven years, Calver played in women's cricket matches alongside her mother, Beverley. In 1981, the two of them even co-opted her then 69 year old grandmother, Lily, who did not have a cricket background, to make up the numbers and avoid a forfeiture, in a match in which they all played for Northern Suburbs DCC team against Braddon Catholic Girls High School. Calver has since described the occasion as "pretty cool".

Her bowling style was "... front on [in]swing bowling, with the occasional leg cutter, off cutter or slower ball ..." Her best bowling figures in top level domestic cricket were 5/40 (for the ACT against Victoria). After the ACT withdrew from senior national competition in 1995, she played for New South Wales from 1996 until 2004, taking part in 80 matches, and winning seven WNCL titles. For NSW, she took 95 wickets at an average of 22.96 (best bowling 3/18), and scored 509 runs at an average of 18.85, with two 50s including a top score of 61.

International career Calver played her first international match in 1991 against New Zealand at Bellerive Oval, Hobart, as a late replacement for the Australian team captain, Lyn Larsen, who was suffering from food poisoning. After that series where she played in the third match, she did not play in another international match for nearly two years; Australia had a very strong team, and there were relatively few international women's fixtures at the time. However, she then participated in the team's disastrous 1993 World Cup campaign in England, in which Australia lost to eventual tournament winner England, and was then heavily defeated by the other eventual finalist, New Zealand.

Calver's involvement in cricket after completing her international career has included being the women's statistician for Cricket Australia and the on-line scorer at Manuka Oval. In the accident, she suffered a knee injury that required multiple stitches; the kangaroo, which appeared to be dazed and "disoriented" by the impact, died soon afterwards when it was struck by a passing car.

Recognition 2013 – Calver was inducted into the ACT Sport Hall of Fame 2020 - Calver was awarded Life Membership of Cricket ACT The "Bronwyn Calver Medal" is awarded to the ACT Meteors Player of the Year. Calver is a life member of the Gordon Cricket Club, Women's Division 2023 - Named in Cricket ACT Women's Team of the Century.