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New Zealand cricketer

Maia Lewis
MNZM

Personal information

Full name

Maia Ann Mereana Lewis

Born

(1970-06-20) 20 June 1970 (age 54)
Christchurch, New Zealand

Batting

Right-handed

Bowling

Right-arm medium

Role

Batter

International information

National side

New Zealand (1992–2005)

Test debut (cap 96)

11 January 1992 v England

Last Test

21 August 2004 v England

ODI debut (cap 58)

19 January 1992 v Australia

Last ODI

7 April 2005 v India

Only T20I (cap 5)

5 August 2004 v England

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1987/88

1988/89–1992/93

1993/94

1994/95–2005/06

Career statistics

Competition	WTest	WODI	WT20I	WLA
Matches	9	78	1	197
Runs scored	252	1,372	25	4,497
Batting average	21.00	22.49	25.00	29.01
100s/50s	0/2	1/4	0/0	3/23
Top score	65	105	25	105
Balls bowled	–	30	–	942
Wickets	–	0	–	17
Bowling average	–	–	–	34.41
5 wickets in innings	–	0	–	0
10 wickets in match	–	0	–	0
Best bowling	–	–	–	2/14
Catches/stumpings	6/–	30/–	0/–	67/–

Source: CricketArchive, 15 April 2021

Maia Ann Mereana Lewis MNZM (born 20 June 1970) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter. She appeared in 9 Test matches, 78 One Day Internationals and 1 Twenty20 International for New Zealand between 1992 and 2005. She captained in 1997 and between 2003 and 2005. She played domestic cricket for Southern Districts, Canterbury, North Harbour and Wellington. Lewis also represented New Zealand in Hockey, and Indoor Cricket, making her a triple international athlete.

She retired from cricket in 2005. In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, Lewis was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women's cricket.

Post-retirement, Lewis has worked as Auckland cricket Women's Cricket Manager and Auckland Hearts coach from 2006 to 2012. And later in various other sporting roles, including with the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation, and on the boards of Blind Sport New Zealand and Northland Cricket Association.

References

"Player Profile: Maia Lewis". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
"Player Profile: Maia Lewis". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
"Maia Lewis retires from all cricket". Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
"Queen's Birthday honours list 2006". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
"Maia Lewis MNZM". Linkedin. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

External links

ESPN CricInfo profile

v t e New Zealand squad – 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup runners-up
1 Anderson 2 Astle 3 Bond 4 Campbell 5 Drumm 6 Gunn 7 Harris 8 Hockley 9 Illingworth (c) 10 Kinsella 11 Lewis 12 McLauchlan 13 Musson 14 Turner

v t e New Zealand squad – 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup runners-up
1 Brown 2 Campbell 3 Drumm 4 Fruin 5 Fryer 6 Hockley 7 Keenan 8 Le Comber 9 Lewis (c) 10 McLauchlan 11 Nicholson 12 Pullar 13 Ramel 14 Rolls

v t e New Zealand squad – 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup semi-finalists
1 Lewis (c) 2 Browne 3 Burke 4 Corbin 5 Drumm 6 Fahey 7 Mason 8 McGlashan 9 Milliken 10 Pullar 11 Rolls 12 Scripps 13 Steele 14 Tiffen 15 Watson

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