About Vanessa Bowen
Born 1974. Vanessa Bowen is a cricketer.
Vanessa Bowen (born 26 September 1974) is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter. She appeared in one Test match and 13 One Day Internationals for Sri Lanka between 1997 and 1999, including captaining the side during their 1997 series against the Netherlands and at the 1997 World Cup. She played domestic cricket for Colts Cricket Club.
In Sri Lanka's only Test match, she scored 78 in the first innings and 63 in the second innings, becoming the first and only Sri Lankan woman cricketer to score twin fifties on Test debut.
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Vanessa Bowen was born on 26 September 1974 in Colombo.
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