{{Short description|English cricketer (born 1961)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Use British English|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Sarah Potter | female = true | image = | caption = | country = England | fullname = Sarah Potter | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|7|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hammersmith, Middlesex, England | nickname = | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = | bowling = Left-arm fast | role = All-rounder | family = Dennis Potter (Father) | international = true | internationalspan = 1984–1987
| testdebutdate = 27 July | testdebutyear = 1984 | testdebutagainst = New Zealand | testcap = 94 | lasttestdate = 29 August | lasttestyear = 1987 | lasttestagainst = Australia
| odidebutdate = 24 June | odidebutyear = 1984 | odidebutagainst = New Zealand | odicap = 36 | lastodidate = 25 July | lastodiyear = 1987 | lastodiagainst = Australia | odishirt =
| club1 = West | year1 = 1979–1988
| columns = 4 | column1 = WTest | matches1 = 7 | runs1 = 360 | bat avg1 = 32.72 | 100s/50s1 = 1/1 | top score1 = 102 | deliveries1 = 957 | wickets1 = 8 | bowl avg1 = 48.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 3/52 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | column2 = WODI | matches2 = 8 | runs2 = 58 | bat avg2 = 9.66 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 30 | deliveries2 = 408 | wickets2 = 10 | bowl avg2 = 23.50 | fivefor2 = 0 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 3/11 | catches/stumpings2 = 1/– | column3 = WFC | matches3 = 14 | runs3 = 552 | bat avg3 = 25.09 | 100s/50s3 = 1/2 | top score3 = 102 | deliveries3 = 2,152 | wickets3 = 22 | bowl avg3 = 41.50 | fivefor3 = 1 | tenfor3 = 0 | best bowling3 = 6/59 | catches/stumpings3 = 1/– | column4 = WLA | matches4 = 26 | runs4 = 292 | bat avg4 = 15.36 | 100s/50s4 = 0/2 | top score4 = 67 | deliveries4 = 1,310 | wickets4 = 35 | bowl avg4 = 18.74 | fivefor4 = 0 | tenfor4 = 0 | best bowling4 = 3/7 | catches/stumpings4 = 10/– | date = 25 February 2021 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17070/17070.html CricketArchive }} '''Sarah Potter''' (born 11 July 1961) is a British former cricketer who played as a left-arm bowler and a middle-order batter. She played seven Test matches and eight One-Day Internationals for England between 1984 and 1987. She scored one Test century, an innings of 102 against India at Worcester in 1986.<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/47/47571.html Scorecard England Women v India Women, 3rd Test, 1986] from CricketArchive retrieved June 26, 2008</ref> She played domestic cricket for West of England.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17070/17070.html Player Profile: Sarah Potter] from CricketArchive retrieved 25 February 2021</ref>
She is the daughter of the dramatist Dennis Potter.<ref>"Fast bowler with a difference", ''The Times'', April 24, 1982.</ref> She was her father's secretary, and head of the ''Whistling Gypsy'' production company for TV dramas, most of which were written by her father.<ref>[http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Dennis_Potter/190846 Profile of Dennis Potter]</ref> She wrote a novelisation of his TV play ''Brimstone and Treacle'', published by Quartet Books in 1982. She has also written on women's cricket for ''The Times''.<ref>Potter, S., [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/counties/article3971432.ece ''Minor Counties, women's cricket and schools'']{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} from The Times retrieved June 26, 2008</ref> She was in a long-term relationship with sports journalist Alan Lee, who died in 2015.<ref>{{cite book |title=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 2016 edition |page = 224}}</ref>
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