Caroline de Fouw

In this Dutch name, the surname is de Fouw, not Fouw.
Caroline de Fouw
Personal information
Full name
Margaretha Everdine Caroline de Fouw
Born (1966-05-12) 12 May 1966 (age 58)
The Hague, Netherlands
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off spin
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 2)28 July 2007 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 27)16 July 1991 v Denmark
Last ODI9 July 2008 v West Indies
T20I debut (cap 2)1 July 2008 v West Indies
Last T20I12 July 2018 v Uganda
Career statistics
Competition WTest WODI WT20I WLA
Matches 1 35 6 42
Runs scored 2 163 14 196
Batting average 1.00 6.79 4.66 7.53
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 2 23 8 23
Balls bowled 120 1,099 106 1,471
Wickets 3 26 6 40
Bowling average 17.00 25.30 19.66 19.77
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/27 3/23 3/31 4/14
Catches/stumpings 1/– 9/0 0/– 9/–
Source: CricketArchive, 3 December 2021

Margaretha Everdine Caroline de Fouw (born 12 May 1966) is a Dutch former cricketer who played as a right-arm off break bowler. She appeared in one Test match, 35 One Day Internationals and 6 Twenty20 Internationals for the Netherlands between 1991 and 2018.[1][2] Her tally of 26 ODI wickets has only been surpassed by Carolien Salomons and Sandra Kottman for the Netherlands.[3]

Born in The Hague, de Fouw played club cricket for KZKC (Klein Zwitserland de Krekels Combinatie).[4] Her Dutch national team debut came in the 1986 Women's Quadrangular Tournament in Ireland, where she played against Ireland and Denmark.[5] De Fouw made her ODI debut aged 25, at the 1991 European Championship, which was being held in the Netherlands for the first time.[6]

Aged 42 at the time of her last ODI, de Fouw is the oldest woman to appear in an ODI for the Netherlands,[7] and her ODI career span of almost 17 years has only been surpassed by fourteen women worldwide.[8]

In April 2008, de Fouw served as a coach for the ICC European Women's Academy in La Manga Club, Spain.[9] She later gained a Level-3 coaching diploma from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB),[10] and has worked in various development roles with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB), the governing body for Dutch cricket.[11]

In June 2018, she returned to international cricket for the first time since 2008, playing for the Netherlands at the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.[12] She was at the time the oldest woman from any country to appear in a Twenty20 International.[13]

  1. ^ "Player Profile: Caroline de Fouw". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Player Profile: Caroline de Fouw". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Records/Netherlands Women/Women's One Day Internationals/Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  4. ^ Caroline de Fouw – CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  5. ^ Women's miscellaneous matches played by Caroline de Fouw – CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  6. ^ Women's ODI matches played by Caroline de Fouw – CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  7. ^ Records / Women's One-Day Internationals / Individual records (captains, players, umpires) / Oldest players – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  8. ^ Records / Women's One-Day Internationals / Individual records (captains, players, umpires) / Longest careers – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  9. ^ "Top female cricketers attend European Academy" – Cricket Europe. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  10. ^ Rod Lyall (1 February 2011). "Dutch women's squads announced" – Cricket Europe. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  11. ^ (19 March 2010). "Now women's cricket gets a KNCB committee" – Cricket Europe. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  12. ^ "ICC announces umpire and referee appointments for ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  13. ^ Records / Women's Twenty20 Internationals / Individual records (captains, players, umpires) / Oldest players – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2015.