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Place of Birth: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
About Leah Poulton
- Leah Joy Poulton (born 27 February 1984) is an Australian cricketer who plays for New South Wales and Australia.
- She is a specialist batsman who usually opens the batting. Poulton came to prominence in youth cricket by captaining New South Wales to the Under-17 national championships in 2000.
- In 2002–03, she made her senior debut for New South Wales in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL).
- She found runs hard to come by in her first three seasons and was in and out of the team frequently, aggregating only 24 runs in her second and third seasons combined.
- Despite this, she regularly captained Australia's Under-19 and Under-23 teams during this time, leading the latter on a successful tour of Sri Lanka in 2004.
- In 2005–06, made a substantial impact on the WNCL for the first time, scoring 325 runs, more than twice her previous best season's total, playing in the first of five consecutive WNCL triumphs for New South Wales. Poulton was rewarded with international selection in the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand at the start of the 2006–07 season and scored her maiden century, 101, in the third match.
- However, after a poor tour of India at the end of the season, she was dropped from the Australian team in mid-2007 and continued to be overlooked after a poor WNCL season in 2007–08.
- During the 2008 Australian winter, she travelled to play for Nottinghamshire in England, and earned herself a recall to the Australian team at the start of the 2008–09 southern hemisphere season.
- After scoring 376 runs at a batting average of 41.77 in the 2008–09 WNCL, Poulton retained her position in the national team for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup and the 2009 World Twenty20.
- She was a regular member of the playing team in both tournaments, participating all the matches in the latter.
- In 2009, Poulton made her Test debut against England and in 2009–10, she hit her second ODI century, 104 not out against New Zealand.
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