Alexia Walker
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Playing career
Walker played three one-day internationals for the England women's cricket team in August 2001. A right-arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman, she took one wicketWicket
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch...
for 29 runs and averaged 14 with the bat.
Management
In June 2009 Walker was appointed as the cricket director at Brighton CollegeBrighton College
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, a co-educational private school in Brighton
Brighton
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, Sussex. She is the first woman cricket director at an English private school. Previously she was cricket performance manager at Loughborough University
Loughborough University
Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...
which is noted for its sports research and development.
In January 2010 she became one of only three women to pass the ECB Level 4 Coaching Certificate and is believed to be the youngest candidate of either sex to gain the award.