The club was incredibly proud with the announcement that Izzy Sharp would be called into the White Ferns squad to for the T20 series against Sri Lanka, with two of these matches being played at Hagley Oval.
In the latest news 20 year old Sharp has been called into the One Day squad as Lauren Down has been ruled out with a back injury – those fixtures are due to played on Friday 7th of March and Sunday 9th of March in Nelson.
We were grateful that NZ Cricket President Lesley Murdoch ONZM MBE was able to join club chair Peter Hay to present Izzy a plaque acknowledging her selection, the first member of our club to be called into a White Ferns squad. In fact, if you exclude players who have transferred into the Canterbury Magicians from other provinces it will have been about 10 years since a Canterbury player has been selected as a White Fern.
After the presentation Lesley was able to interview Izzy for her radio show ‘All Sport Breakfast Canterbury’ and we are grateful to Lesley for sending us the interview. This was played on air on Saturday the 8th of March.
Kerri and Graham Sharp are been terrific supporters of Izzy and travel to many of her matches, including the World Cup in South Africa and Izzy explained how emotional they were on the phone when she shared the news of her selection.
Izzy joined NW Women’s Cricket as a year 9 attending Craighead Diocesan School for the 2018/2019 season travelling up from Pleasant Point every week to play and every 2nd week for practice. Playing Canterbury age group representative cricket Izzy was also the captain of NZ U19 Women for the World Cup in January 2023 and made her Canterbury Magicians debut on the 5th of February 2022 and is Cap #239.
Cricket is not her only sport, last winter Izzy was a Canterbury age group hockey represented and plays at Hornby Hockey. Here is an old article from 2016
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