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Australian cricketer

Charmaine Mason

Personal information

Full name

Charmaine Lea Mason

Born

(1970-09-20) 20 September 1970 (age 54)
Sutherland, Sydney, Australia

Batting

Right-handed

Bowling

Right-arm fast

Role

Bowler

International information

National side

Australia (1992–2001)

Test debut (cap 124)

19 February 1992 v England

Last Test

6 July 2001 v England

ODI debut (cap 83)

7 February 1997 v Pakistan

Last ODI

15 July 2001 v Ireland

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1989/90–2000/01

Victoria

Career statistics

Competition	WTest	WODI	WFC	WLA
Matches	5	46	13	109
Runs scored	0	66	80	318
Batting average	–	6.00	16.00	7.22
100s/50s	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
Top score	0*	11*	49	47
Balls bowled	1,063	2,366	1,900	5,670
Wickets	13	83	25	165
Bowling average	26.07	13.85	24.96	14.86
5 wickets in innings	0	2	0	2
10 wickets in match	0	0	0	0
Best bowling	4/40	5/9	4/40	5/9
Catches/stumpings	0/–	16/–	0/–	29/–

Source: CricketArchive, 14 January 2022

Charmaine Lea Mason (born 20 September 1970) is an Australian former cricketer who played as a right-arm fast bowler. She appeared in 5 Test matches and 46 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1992 and 2001. She played domestic cricket for Victoria.

Charmaine made her first class debut for Victoria in 1989/90 where she began to form a lethal combination of speed with opening bowler partner Cathryn Fitzpatrick. They were the perfect foil: Fiztpatrick’s raw pace was complemented by Mason's bag of tricks and pace. Not only did they cause havoc and terrorise the other Australian states, but before long became a much heralded pace attack in both Tests and ODIs.

Mason made her Australia Test debut in 1990/91 against England at North Sydney Oval. Her first wicket, the England captain, Helen Plimmer. Her next one, former England captain, Carole Hodges. She collected 4-40 and 3-39 to complete an excellent debut with the ball. In five Test matches Mason had one innings, 0*. More importantly, 13 Test wickets at 26.07.

A debut in ODIs came in 1996/7 and it is in this format where Mason really excelled. (Not with the bat) In 46 matches, 83 wickets at the miserly rate of just 13.85, an economy of 2.91 (Still World Class to this day) and best performance of 5-9. Charmaine Mason was also part of the World Cup winning team in 1997.

With many years still left in her career, Charmaine retired from cricket unexpectedly in 2001 at age 31 to further her career away from sport. She has resided in the United Kingdom since 2001.

References

"Player Profile: Charmaine Mason". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
"Player Profile: Charmaine Mason". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

External links

Charmaine Mason at ESPNcricinfo
Charmaine Mason at CricketArchive (subscription required)
Charmaine Mason at southernstars.org.au

v t e Australia squad – 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup – Champions (4th title)
1 Clark (c) 2 Rolton (vc) 3 Broadbent 4 Calver 5 Dannatt 6 Fahey 7 Fitzpatrick 8 Goss 9 Goszko 10 Jones 11 Keightley 12 Magno 13 Mason 14 Price Coach: Harmer

v t e Australia squad – 2000 Women's Cricket World Cup runners-up
1 Clark (c) 2 Rolton (vc) 3 Bambury 4 Broadbent 5 Broadfoot 6 Fahey 7 Fitzpatrick 8 Goss 9 Hayes 10 Keightley 11 Magno 12 Mason 13 McGregor 14 Price Coach: Harmer

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