Cecelia Nora Isobel Mary Joyce (born 25 July 1983 in Wicklow

Wicklow

Wicklow) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland. Located south of Dublin on the east coast of the island, it has a population of 10,070 according to the 2006 census. The town is situated to the east of the N11 route between Dublin and Wexford. Wicklow is also connected to the rail...

, Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

) is an Irish cricketer

Cricketer

A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

. A right-handed batsman and leg spin

Leg spin

Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action, causing the ball to spin from right to left in the cricket pitch, at the point of delivery. When the ball bounces, the spin causes the ball to deviate sharply from right to left, that...

 bowler, she has played twenty One-Day Internationals

Women's One-day International cricket

Women's One Day International cricket is the limited overs form of women's cricket. Matches are scheduled for 50 overs, equivalent to the men's game. The first women's ODIs were played in 1973, as part of the first Women's World Cup which was held in England...

 for the Ireland women's cricket team since July 2001.

Playing career

Joyce made her ODI debut for Ireland against Australia on 14 July 2001, in the second match of a series. She also played in the third match of the series, and against Scotland in the European Championship

Women's European Cricket Championship

The Women's European Cricket Championship is a women's cricket tournament for teams representing European countries. The first edition was contested in 1989.-History:...

. She next played in the IWCC Trophy

Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier

The Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, formerly the IWCC Trophy, is a cricket tournament that serves as a qualifying tournament for the Women's Cricket World Cup. It has been played once so far, in 2003, the second tournament was to take place in Lahore, Pakistan in November 2007 but was...

 in the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 in July 2003.

The following year, she played three ODIs against New Zealand in Dublin and in 2005, played in the World Cup

Women's Cricket World Cup

The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is a Women's one-day international cricket competition. The first tournament was held in England in 1973, two years before the first men's ICC Cricket World Cup....

 in South Africa

South Africa

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. She also played against Australia and in the European Championship in 2005. She played four ODIs in 2006, two each against India and the Netherlands.

Statistics

In One-Day International matches, Joyce has scored 283 runs

Run (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...

 at an average of 16.64, with a top score of 77 against the Netherlands. She has taken just one wicket, against Scotland.

Family

Joyce comes from a cricketing family. Her twin sister Isobel

Isobel Joyce

Isobel Mary Helen Cecilia Joyce is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm medium pace bowler, she has played one Test and 36 ODIs for the Ireland women's cricket team to date.-Playing career:...

 has played Test

Women's Test cricket

Women's Test cricket is the longest format of women's cricket and is the gender equivalent to men's Test cricket. Matches comprise four-innings and are held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations...

 and ODI cricket

Cricket

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 for Ireland, whilst her three brothers Dominick

Dominick Joyce

Dominick Ignatius Joyce is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he has played 66 times for the Ireland cricket team including one One Day International, six first-class matches and seventeen List A matches...

, Ed

Ed Joyce

Edmund Christopher Joyce is an Irish cricketer who has played for both the Irish and English national cricket teams. After beginning his career with Middlesex, he moved to Sussex in 2009. A left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm bowler of medium pace, Joyce is widely regarded as one of the...

 and Gus

Gus Joyce

Augustine "Gus" Joyce is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he played three times for the Ireland cricket team in 2000, a first-class match against Scotland and matches against Italy and Scotland in the European Championship. Other members of his family have played...

 have all played for the Ireland men's team. Ed has also played for England.