{{Short description|Australian cricketer}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Emma Liddell | female = true | image = | country = Australia | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|03|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Left-arm medium | role = Bowler | international = true | testdebutdate = 15 February | testdebutyear = 2003 | testdebutagainst = England | testcap = 141 | lasttestdate = 24 August | lasttestyear = 2005 | lasttestagainst = England | odidebutdate = 20 February | odidebutyear = 2002 | odidebutagainst = New Zealand | odicap = 95 | lastodidate = 30 August | lastodiyear = 2005 | lastodiagainst = England | club1 = New South Wales | year1 = {{nowrap|1998/99–2005/06}} | columns = 3 | column1 = Test | matches1 = 3 | runs1 = 24 | bat avg1 = 12.00 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 24 | deliveries1 = 657 | wickets1 = 12 | bowl avg1 = 13.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 4/57 | catches/stumpings1 = 0/- | column2 = ODI | matches2 = 33 | runs2 = 3 | bat avg2 = 1.50 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 2* | deliveries2 = 1,595 | wickets2 = 32 | bowl avg2 = 29.40 | fivefor2 = 0 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 4/17 | catches/stumpings2 = 1/– | column3 = LA | matches3 = 117 | runs3 = 91 | bat avg3 = 7.00 | 100s/50s3 = 0/0 | top score3 = 35* | deliveries3 = 5,806 | wickets3 = 135 | bowl avg3 = 23.18 | fivefor3 = 0 | tenfor3 = 0 | best bowling3 = 4/17 | catches/stumpings3 = 18/– | date = 7 August | year = 2025 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/53685.html CricInfo }}
'''Emma Liddell''' (born 30 March 1980) is an Australian former cricketer.<ref name="ESPNcricinfo - Emma Liddell - Australia">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/53685.html|title=Emma Liddell - Australia|work=ESPNcricinfo|publisher=ESPN Inc.|accessdate=22 June 2014}}</ref>
Liddell played 80 Women's National Cricket League matches for the New South Wales Breakers.<ref name="Emma Liddell - CricketArchive">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/9/9402/9402.html|title=Emma Liddell - CricketArchive|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=22 June 2014}}</ref> She also played three Tests and 33 One Day Internationals for the Australia national women's cricket team.<ref name="ESPNcricinfo - Emma Liddell - Australia"/> She was the 141st woman to play Test cricket for Australia,<ref name="Cricket Australia - Southern Stars - Emma Liddell (Player #165)">{{cite web|url=http://www.southernstars.org.au/twining.html|title=Emma Liddell (Player #165)|work=southernstars.org.au|publisher=Cricket Australia|accessdate=22 June 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301194205/http://www.southernstars.org.au/twining.html|archivedate=1 March 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and the 95th woman to play One Day International cricket for Australia.<ref name="ESPNcricinfo - Women's One-Day Internationals - Australia">{{cite web|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=9;filter=advanced;orderby=start;size=100;team=289;template=results;type=allround|title=Women's One-Day Internationals - Australia|work=ESPNcricinfo|publisher=ESPN Inc.|accessdate=22 June 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140524130807/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=9;filter=advanced;orderby=start;size=100;team=289;template=results;type=allround|archivedate=24 May 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Liddell attended Grantham High School, in Sydney's western suburbs. She took up playing cricket at the age of 14, following her brother into the sport.<ref name="prodigy">Catriona Dixon (13 November 1998). "Bowling prodigy now in the big league" – ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved from Factiva, 4 August 2014.</ref> In February 1996, aged 15, she turned out for a representative Metropolitan West side at the annual New South Wales Combined High Schools Cricket Championships, held in Penrith. On the first day of the tournament, in a match against Metropolitan East, she dismissed the entire opposing side without conceding a run, finishing with figures of 10/0 from 7.4 overs.<ref>— (26 February 1996). "Australian Sports News" (excerpted from ''The Daily Telegraph'') – Reuters Limited. Retrieved from Factiva, 4 August 2014.</ref><ref name="prentice">Tim Prentice (9 October 1996). "Emma aims to bowl fans over" – ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved from Factiva, 4 August 2014.</ref> All her victims were clean-bowled,<ref>— (27 February 1996). "Sport Briefing" – ''The Age''. Retrieved from Factiva, 4 August 2014.</ref> with the team as a whole scoring only seven runs.<ref name="prodigy"/> The feat is one of the rarest in cricket – only 24 instances have been recorded across all levels of the game, with Liddell the only woman known to have completed it.<ref>[http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283210.html Records / All cricket records (including minor cricket) / Bowling records / Best figures in an innings] – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 August 2014.</ref>
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