{{short description|English cricketer and journalist}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Isabelle Westbury | female = true | image = Isabelle Westbury 20191205.jpg | caption = Westbury in 2019 | fullname = Isabelle Mary Geraldine Westbury | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|03|08|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Hammersmith]], London, England | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm [[off spin|off break]] | role = [[Bowling (cricket)|Bowler]]
| country = Netherlands | international = true | internationalspan = 2005 | oneodi = true | odidebutdate = 19 August | odidebutyear = 2005 | odidebutagainst = Ireland | odicap = 67
| club1 = [[Somerset Women cricket team|Somerset]] | year1 = 2007–2012 | club2 = [[Middlesex Women cricket team|Middlesex]] | year2 = 2013–2017 | club3 = [[Western Storm]] | year3 = 2016
| columns = 3
| column1 = [[Women's One Day International|WODI]] | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 0 | bat avg1 = 0.00 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 0 | deliveries1 = 60 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| column2 = [[List A cricket|WLA]] | matches2 = 56 | runs2 = 461 | bat avg2 = 12.13 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 43 | deliveries2 = 2,281 | wickets2 = 66 | bowl avg2 = 22.93 | fivefor2 = 1 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 5/20 | catches/stumpings2 = 30/0
| column3 = [[Women's Twenty20|WT20]] | matches3 = 28 | runs3 = 198 | bat avg3 = 13.20 | 100s/50s3 = 0/0 | top score3 = 33[[not out|*]] | deliveries3 = 540 | wickets3 = 36 | bowl avg3 = 13.50 | fivefor3 = 0 | tenfor3 = 0 | best bowling3 = 4/15 | catches/stumpings3 = 8/–
| date = 3 January | year = 2022 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/88100.html CricketArchive }} [[File:Isabelle Westbury running.jpg|thumb|Westbury chasing a ball in the field, 2016]] '''Isabelle''' "'''Izzy'''" '''Westbury''' (born 8 March 1990) is a sports writer, broadcaster, lawyer and former [[cricket]]er.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/isabelle-westbury/ |date=7 November 2019|title=The Telegraph – Isabelle Westbury |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="The Law Society">{{cite web |url=https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/person/320402/isabelle-westbury |work=The Law Society |date=8 November 2019 |title=Isabelle Westbury |access-date=3 January 2022 |archive-date=3 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103200337/https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/person/320402/isabelle-westbury |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a cricketer, she played as a right-arm [[off spin|off break]] [[Bowling (cricket)|bowler]], playing for [[Somerset Women cricket team|Somerset]] and [[Middlesex Women cricket team|Middlesex]], as well as being part of the [[Western Storm]] squad in 2016.<ref name="Western Storm">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/squad/995401.html|date=8 November 2019|title=ESPNCricinfo – Western Storm 2016 |work=[[ESPNCricinfo]]}}</ref> She [[captain (cricket)|captained]] Middlesex for two seasons, in 2015 and 2016. Westbury also appeared in one [[Women's One Day International|One Day International]].<ref name="Cricinfo">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/isabelle-westbury-216637 |title=Player Profile: Isabelle Westbury|work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="CricketArchive">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/88100.html |title=Player Profile: Izzy Westbury |work=CricketArchive |access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref>
She was [[List of presidents of the Oxford Union|President]] of the [[Oxford Union]] in 2011–12.<ref name="oxfordunion">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8853595/Oxford-Union-takes-a-pop-at-David-Cameron.html |date=28 October 2011|first=Tim|last=Walker|title=Oxford Union takes a pop at David Cameron |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> Westbury retired from playing cricket in 2017 and went on to work as a print and broadcast journalist for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and the [[BBC]].<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/isabelle-westbury |title=Isabelle Westbury |work=The Guardian |access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref> She is also a criminal lawyer.<ref name="Telegraph"/>
==Early life== Born in [[Hammersmith]], London, Westbury experienced a nomadic childhood, living in [[Mongolia]], [[Malaysia]], [[Easter Island]] and [[Syria]] before arriving in the [[Netherlands]].<ref name="cherwell">{{cite web|url=http://www.cherwell.org/2010/02/06/the-pro |title=The Pro |work=[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]] |publisher=Oxford Student Publications Ltd. |last=Lester |first=James |date=6 February 2010 |access-date=23 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117125558/http://www.cherwell.org/2010/02/06/the-pro/|archive-date=17 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> She attended [[The British School in the Netherlands]] from 2001 to 2006.<ref name="mccu">{{cite web|title=Player Profile: Izzy Westbury|url=http://www.mccuniversities.org/oxford/player-profiles/izzy-westbury,246,PP.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308113552/http://www.mccuniversities.org/oxford/player-profiles/izzy-westbury,246,PP.html|archive-date=8 March 2012|access-date=23 July 2021|publisher=MCC University}}</ref> It was in the Netherlands that she first started playing cricket, after being prevented from playing club [[Association football|football]] alongside boys beyond the age of 13, at the "very traditional club" near her house.<ref name="cherwell"/>
Westbury studied for an undergraduate degree in Physiology at [[Hertford College, Oxford]],<ref name="cherwell"/><ref name="mccu"/> graduating in 2013. In addition to her cricket career, she also played [[Field hockey|hockey]] for Oxford, achieving her [[Blue (university sport)|Blue]] by playing in the [[Varsity Match|Varsity Hockey Match]] against [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] in March 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northlondon-today.co.uk/tn/Sport.cfm?id=7671&headline=Varsity%20Hockey%20action%20sees%20Oxford%20enjoy%20double%20delight |title=Varsity Hockey action sees Oxford enjoy double delight |work=North London Press |publisher=Tindle Newspapers Ltd. |date=4 March 2010 |access-date=23 June 2010}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> In 2011, she was elected as President of the [[Oxford Union]], having earlier served as the society's secretary,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cherwell.org/content/11598|title=Union Tribunal goes West for Jack Sennett|publisher=Oxford Student Publications Limited|work=Cherwell|date=14 March 2011|access-date=18 March 2011|archive-date=18 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318204020/http://cherwell.org/content/11598|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="cherwell1">{{cite web|url=http://www.cherwell.org/content/11146|title=Union Election Results|publisher=Oxford Student Publications Limited|work=Cherwell|date=30 November 2010|access-date=14 December 2010|archive-date=14 April 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414105830/http://www.cherwell.org/content/11146|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was described as "the most engaging president that the Oxford Union has had in years".<ref name="oxfordunion"/>
==Cricket career== ===The Netherlands=== At the age of thirteen, Westbury began to play boys cricket for The Hague Cricket Club,<ref name="mccu"/> and at the age of fourteen she was picked for the national side, making her first appearance at the 2004 European Under-21 Championships.<ref name="otherm">{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Other_matches.html |title=Other matches played by Izzy Westbury (23) |work=CricketArchive |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 June 2010 |archive-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103225043/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Other_matches.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2005, aged 15, Westbury represented the senior [[Netherlands national women's cricket team|Netherlands]] side for the first time during the 2005 [[Women's European Cricket Championship|European Championship]] in Wales.<ref name="lam">{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Womens_ListA_Matches.html |title=Women's ListA Matches played by Izzy Westbury (22) |work=CricketArchive |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 June 2010 |archive-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103225130/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Womens_ListA_Matches.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===England=== Westbury started at [[Millfield|Millfield School]] in [[Street, Somerset]] in 2006 on a sports scholarship.<ref name="mccu"/> She joined [[Somerset Women cricket team|Somerset]] for the 2007 [[Women's County Championship|County Championship]].<ref name="lam"/>
Remaining with Somerset in 2008, she claimed her first wicket for the county during their first match of the season, having [[Surrey Women cricket team|Surrey]] opener [[Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent]] caught.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/133/133097.html |title=Surrey Women v Somerset Women |work=CricketArchive|url-access=subscription |date=18 May 2008 |access-date=23 June 2010}}</ref> She appeared in the [[Super Fours]]—a competition in which the England selectors place the 48 leading players into four teams—for the first time in 2008, representing the [[Diamonds (Super Fours)|Diamonds]] in both the 50-over and 20-over forms of the game.<ref name="lam"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/88/88100/Womens_Twenty20_Matches.html |title=Women's Twenty20 Matches played by Izzy Westbury (2) |work=CricketArchive|url-access=subscription |access-date=23 June 2010}}</ref>
In January 2010, Westbury was named as part of the England Academy squad for the High Performance Camp in [[Bangalore]], India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/womens/england-women-and-international/shaw-names-academy-squad,309073,EN.html |title=Academy squad named for Bangalore |publisher=[[England and Wales Cricket Board]] |date=28 January 2010 |access-date=23 June 2010}}</ref> Westbury joined Middlesex in 2013, and was made captain the following year.<ref name="Westbury made Middlesex captain">{{cite web|url=http://www.westlondonsport.com/sport/football-wls-news-in-brief-fulham-u21s-lose-blues-to-face-liverpool-qpr-youngster-gets-award |title=News in brief: Fulham U21s lose, Blues face Liverpool, Petrasso award |work=West London Sport |date=17 December 2014 |access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref> In 2016, she signed for the [[Western Storm]] in the inaugural [[Women's Cricket Super League|Kia Super League]]. Westbury retired from playing cricket the following season.
==Legal career== Westbury qualified as a lawyer in 2018, and serves as a Legal Officer in the [[Royal Air Force]].<ref>[https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/person/320402/isabelle-westbury Isabelle Westbury] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103200337/https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/person/320402/isabelle-westbury |date=3 November 2019 }}, lawsociety.org.uk, accessed 22 November 2022</ref> She has a specialism in [[criminal law]].<ref name="Telegraph"/>
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==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=216637}} * {{cricketarchive|id=88100}}
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