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Frances Mackay
New Zealand cricketer (born 1990) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frances Louise "Frankie" Mackay (born 1 June 1990) is a New Zealand cricketer and commentator who currently plays for Canterbury and New Zealand.[1]
In November 2024, Mackay became the leading run-scorer (male or female) in the history of domestic one-day cricket in New Zealand. She is also the leading women's wicket-taker at the same level.[2]
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Early life
Mackay attended Burnside Primary School, where she played both cricket and rugby union.[3] At Cobham Intermediate School she opened the batting with Corey Anderson.[4] She joined the Lancaster Park Cricket Club in 2002 aged twelve, where she was coached by Selena Charteris.[3]
Playing career
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Mackay debuted for Canterbury in their trophy-winning 2007–08 State League season.[3] She was first selected for the national team in 2011 and played regularly at international level until 2014, when she was dropped after the 2014 Women's World Twenty20.[5]
In January 2019, Mackay was recalled to New Zealand's squad to play in the Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series against India, after a gap of five years since she last played an international match.[6][7]
In March 2019, she was named as the Burger King Super Smash Women's Player of the Year at the annual New Zealand Cricket awards.[8] In May 2021, Mackay was awarded with her first central contract from New Zealand Cricket ahead of the 2021–22 season.[9] In February 2022, she was named in New Zealand's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[10]
Mackay is a proponent of the controversial mode of dismissal known as a Mankad, the act of running out a non-striker who has left their ground early. In the media, Mackay has defended other bowlers after high-profile Mankad incidents, and as a player she once obtained three dismissals via Mankads in a single domestic season. She was reputedly told to use this mode of dismissal less often.[11]
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Commentary career
Mackay is a regular commentator of men's and women's domestic and international cricket in New Zealand. She began her media career on Lesley Murdoch's Saturday radio sports show in Christchurch.[12] This led to a commentary role on Radio Sport for the West Indies tour of New Zealand in March 2018.[4] She began calling men's and women's matches on television during the 2018–19 Super Smash for Sky Sport.[12] During Bangladesh's tour of New Zealand in January 2022, Mackay and Katey Martin became New Zealand's first all-women cricket commentary team during a men's Test match.[13] This was not scheduled deliberately; as members of a larger commentary squad, Mackay and Martin happened to be rostered together and they only realised the significance afterwards.[14]
Mackay has also commentated the Everest Premier League in Nepal.[4]
Personal life
Mackay is a librarian at the Upper Riccarton branch of Christchurch City Libraries. She describes herself as a "bookworm" who aims to read 100 books per year.[5]
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