A powerful right-hand bat who bowls off-spin and can field in most positions, Maddy Green is a handy cricketer to have in a squad.
Green plays her domestic cricket with the Wellington Blaze, but previously captained the Auckland Hearts to their 2017/18 Hallyburton Johnstone Shield victory. Green was also named Batswoman of the Year for the Hearts that campaign.
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Away from the field, Green has also found time to graduate from Auckland University and join ANZ’s graduate programme.
Green had a WHITE FERNS debut to remember; quite the first assignment for the teenage cricketer. She found herself in a T20I against Australia, on a rain-sprinkled day in Sydney. Not only did the WHITE FERNS defeat the Southern Stars, it was a tight, low-scoring, last-over win in which Green’s quick 14 off 18 proved essential. Welcome to the thrills and pressures of international cricket!
The young batting all-rounder would wait a further two years before the chance to make her ODI debut — another winning start as the WHITE FERNS defeated a touring West Indies side in Lincoln. A whirl at that year’s ICC World Twenty20 in India and a reciprocal tour to the Caribbean followed, then re-selection to mid-2015’s ground-breaking first bilateral tour of India.
