Jess Cameron
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Jessica Evelyn Cameron is an Australia
n cricket
er. A batsman, she is a current member of the Australian women's cricket team.
Cameron made her debut for Victoria in the 2006–07 Women's National Cricket League
. She played in all 11 matches but was placed low in the batting order and did not have much time at the crease, scoring 92 runs at 18.40 and taking three wickets. At the end of the season she was selected in the Australia Youth team to play New Zealand A, and took 6/28 in one match, ending the series with nine wickets at 9.77.
The following WNCL season, Cameron made only 35 runs in her first four matches and was dropped for the remainder of the competition, although she was selected in the Australian Under-21 team to play against England and Australia.
The 2008–09 season started with a similar series, this time against Australia and India, and Cameron scored consecutive half-centuries and totalled 157 runs at 78.50. Cameron scored 206 runs at 22.88 in the WNCL season and won a call-up to the national team. She made her debut in the Rose Bowl series
and after failing to capitalise on her starts in the first three matches, was dropped. Cameron was selected in six of Australia's seven matches for the 2009 World Cup
, scoring 81 runs at 16.20 as the hosts placed fourth. She also played in the World Twenty20
in England
but was dropped after the first match. She played in three of the five subsequent ODIs against England but failed to pass single figures.
Cameron made 236 runs at 26.22 in the 2009–10 WNCL to retain her position in the national squad for the Rose Bowl series, forcing her way into the team mid-way through the series. In the last three ODIs she played as makeshift wicket-keeper
after Alyssa Healy
was left out, and made her maiden ODI half-century, 68, in the first of these three matches.
in the Women's National Cricket League
and played in all 11 of their matches for the 2006–07 season. In her first match, against reigning champions New South Wales
, she made 12 runs in Victoria's 8/131 and then conceded six runs from her only over and took a catch as New South Wales reached their target with three wickets in hand. The next day Victoria won the second match of the double header, but Cameron was neither required to bat or bowl in the six-wicket win. In her first year, Cameron often batted at No. 7 or lower, and was not a frontline bowler, so she was effectively hidden from much of the play. She batted six times and bowled in seven matches, and in four matches, did neither. Her most productive outing with the bat came in the first match of a double-header against Queensland
, when she made 29 not out
in a 57-run win. The next day, she took her best bowling figures of the season with 2/29, but it was not enough to prevent a 80-run defeat. Victoria won six of their eight round-robin matches to qualify second for the three-match finals series, which were hosted by New South Wales in Sydney
. In the first match, Cameron scored 28 as the hosts were bowled out for 136. New South Wales scored relatively freely from her bowling in a low-scoring match, taking 19 runs from her five overs as they reached their target of 137 with only one wicket in hand. Cameron neither batted nor bowled in the second match as Victoria levelled the series with an eight-wicket victory to force a deciding third final. She made 12 as Victoria batted first and made 7/205, but the visitors reached the target with three wickets in hand, scoring 16 runs from Cameron's two overs before she was relieved from the attack. Cameron ended her season with 92 runs at 18.40 and three wickets at 39.66 at an economy rate of 3.83.
Immediately after the WNCL season, Cameron was called into the Australia Youth team to play against New Zealand A, where she had more success as a bowler than a batsman. She was expensive in the first two matches, taking 1/37 from six overs and 2/24 from four overs. Australia won the first and the second match was tied. In the third and final match, she took 6/28 to dismiss New Zealand for 234. She made 17 but this was not enough to prevent a 22-run defeat. Cameron ended the series with 20 runs at 10.00 and nine wickets at 9.77.
Cameron had a poor start to the 2007–08 WNCL season, scoring 35 runs at 8.75 in Victoria's first four matches. She was run out in the latter two innings, and did not bowl, and was left out of the team for the remaining four games. She also took her only wicket in a senior match, taking 1/6 in a T20 match against Queensland. Nevertheless she was selected in the Australian Under-21 team at the end of the season to play against the senior England and Australian teams. In the first match, against England, she struck and unbeaten 53, before taking 2/32 and a catch in a 52-run win. In the following game, also against England, she made a duck and went wicketless in a defeat, before taking 1/31 and a catch in an eight-wicket win over Australia.
The new 2008–09 season started with a similar series, this time against Australia and India, although the Under-21s lost all of the three completed matches—a fourth was washed out. Cameron made 60 of 149 all out against India and then an unbeaten 79, scoring more than half of the team's 5/156 against Australia, in the last two matches. She ended with 157 runs at 78.50 and took two wickets at 54.00. Her bowling was uneconomical, conceding 5.68 runs per over, and she was attacked by the senior Australian women in the last match, conceding 36 runs in three overs. She has not bowled in a competitive match against senior opposition since then.
In the 2008–09 WNCL, Cameron played in all of Victoria's nine matches and scored 206 runs at 22.88 with a best of 58. In the last two round-robin matches of the season, she was one of the few Victorian batsmen to resist the bowling attack of the reigning champions New South Wales, scoring 36 and 58 in her team's 142 and 7/227 respectively. Victoria lost both matches, having won their first six fixtures, and New South Wales hosted the final the following week. Cameron made a duck and New South Wales won the match by six wickets to defend their title. In two domestic T20 matches, Cameron made 21 not out and 10.
held in Australia, Cameron was called into the national team for her senior debut in the Rose Bowl tour of New Zealand. Cameron made her One Day International (ODI) debut in the first match of the series at Cobham Oval
in Whangarei
. Batting at No. 7, she and made 16 from 35 balls as Australia made 8/150. She then took two catches as Australia were defeated by two wickets with 26 balls to spare. Cameron made 26 and 23 in the next two matches at roughly a run-a-ball at the death, before being dropped for the final two matches. The teams then went to Australia for the World Cup, and played a T20 international at the Sydney Cricket Ground
before the tournament, where Cameron made her debut for Australia in the shortest format. She was not required to bat or bowl as the hosts won a rain-shortened match.
In two warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup, Cameron made 14 and 42 against England and Sri Lanka respectively. She was included in the team for the opening match against New Zealand at North Sydney Oval
, scoring 15 at No. 6 in Australia's failed run-chase. Cameron batted in the position for the entirety of the tournament. She came in at the death and made 16 not out from 14 balls in Australia's must-win match against South Africa as the hosts avoided elimination with a 61-run victory. She was then left out of the last group match, as Australia defeated West Indies to reach the next round. Cameron made 25 from 29 balls in Australia's first match of the next phase against India, which they lost by 16 runs.
She then made three runs from six deliveries against Pakistan before being bowled and took three catches in a 107-run win. She was not required to bat against England as the hosts took a seven-wicket win.
However it was not enough to place Australia in the top two nations and qualify for the final. They faced India in the third place playoff and Cameron fell for seven after struggling for 25 balls. The hosts were all out for 142 and India reached the target with three wickets in hand. Cameron ended the World Cup with 66 runs at 16.50 at a strike rate of 65.34.
Cameron was selected for the 2009 World Twenty20 in England
and Australia hosted New Zealand for three T20 matches in tropical Darwin
during the southern hemisphere winter before the teams flew to the tournament. Cameron scored 15 in the first match, her only innings of the series. Once the Australians were in England, Cameron made five not out against the hosts in her only innings in the pre-tournament practice matches. Cameron made only one in Australia's first pool match again New Zealand, which they lost by nine wickets. She did not play another match in the tournament and Australia were eliminated in the semi-finals by England.
Australia stayed in England for a bilateral series against the hosts, who were the reigning world champions in both ODIs and T20s, after the end of the World Twenty20. Cameron was neither batted nor bowled as Australia upset England in the only T20. She was left out of the first two ODIs, but was recalled for the last three matches, scoring a duck, 3 not out and 3 not out; after batting at No. 6 in her first innings, she dropped down two positions for the remaining innings. England won all the matches except the last, which was washed out. Cameron was left out of the team for the one-off Test.
During the 2009–10 WNCL, Cameron made many starts without converting them into large innings. In nine round-robin matches, she reached double figures on all but one occasion, but failed to pass 32 until the last match, when she scored 52 against the Australian Capital Territory. In the final against New South Wales, she took three catches and made 32 as Victoria were bowled out for 147 and lost by 59 runs. She ended the campaign with 236 runs at 26.22. In the T20 competition, Cameron made 114 runs at 22.80, top-scoring with 49 not out in a win over South Australia. In the final against New South Wales, she made 27 of Victoria's 5/127 and held two catches as they took a 52-run win.
In the middle of the season, she played for the Australian Under-21s against New Zealand Emerging Players, and compiled 128 runs at 42.66 in five matches, with a best score of 66 in the fourth fixture. Australia won the series 4–1.
in Hobart
, she only played in the final match, making four as Australia lost 3–0. The series then headed to New Zealand, and Cameron played in both T20s, making 9 and 16 as the hosts won both. She then played in the three ODIs in New Zealand as a makeshift wicket-keeper after Alyssa Healy
was left out. Cameron top-scored with 68 in the first match, hitting six fours from 81 balls, helping the tourists to recover from a middle-order collapse. Australia scraped home by two wickets from the final ball. She was not required to bat in the last two matches, which the Australians won batting second, and made four dismissals in three matches behind the stumps.
in the West Indies and played in every match of Australia's unbeaten run, batting at No. 5 on every occasion. In the first warm-up match, she took a catch and made 19 from 22 balls as Australia lost to New Zealand by 18 runs. In the last warm-up match, she made 26 from 25 balls with one six as the Australians made 5/166 and defeated Pakistan by 82 runs.
Australia were grouped with England, South Africa and the West Indies. In the first match against England, Australia were set 105 for victory. They were struggling when Cameron came to the crease with the score at 3/44 in the ninth over, and Leah Poulton
fell at 4/45 four balls later. She made 12 from 10 balls, hitting the solitary six of the match before falling to Holly Colvin
. This triggered a collapse of 3/3 in the space of 16 balls, to leave Australia at 7/63. However, Australia recovered and Rene Farrell
was run out
going for the winning run from the third last ball available, leaving the scores tied.
A Super Over eventuated, and Australia made 2/6 as Cameron was not required to bat. On the third ball of England's Super Over, Claire Taylor
tried to beat Cameron's arm for a second run, but lost and was run out. England were 1/5 after the fifth ball and needed two runs for victory. Beth Morgan hit the ball and went for two runs, but was unable to beat Cameron's throw and the scores were again tied. Australia was awarded the match because they had hit more sixes in the match—Cameron scored the solitary six.
In the next match against South Africa, Cameron came in at 3/101 and hit 27 from 18 balls including a six. Upon her fall at 5/139, a collapse started in the final overs, as Australia lost 6/16 including the last four wickets for four runs to be all out for 155 with three balls unused. The Australians completed a 22-run win. In the final group match against the hosts, Cameron came in at 3/52 and hit 13 from 17 balls, as Australia eventually finished on 7/133. She took one catch as Australia won by nine runs to finish the group stage unbeaten at the top of their quartet.
Australia went on to face India in the semi-final. Cameron took two catches to dismiss Sulakshana Naik
and Poonam Raut
and came to the crease with only 17 further runs required. She made 6 from 11 balls and was batting when Australia reached their target of 120 with seven wickets and seven balls to spare.
In the final against New Zealand, Australia batted and first and started poorly. Cameron came in to join Poulton with the score at 3/20 in the sixth over. The pair put on a partnership of 30, the largest in Australia's innings, but they were unable to lift the run rate
substantially; their stand took 45 balls. Poulton was out trying to loft a ball over cover, and two balls later, Cameron was bowled by Kate Broadmore's first ball, leaving Australia at 5/51 in the 13th over. Only Poulton managed a solitary boundary and Cameron ended with 14 from 24 balls. Australia eventually reached 8/106 after a late burst of scoring. New Zealand ended on 6/103, sealing an Australian win by three runs.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. A batsman, she is a current member of the Australian women's cricket team.
Cameron made her debut for Victoria in the 2006–07 Women's National Cricket League
Women's National Cricket League
The Women's National Cricket League is the national competition for women's cricket in Australia.The league competition involves the six member teams playing each other in two 50-over limited-over matches, with the side finishing at the top of the table after the preliminary rounds earning the...
. She played in all 11 matches but was placed low in the batting order and did not have much time at the crease, scoring 92 runs at 18.40 and taking three wickets. At the end of the season she was selected in the Australia Youth team to play New Zealand A, and took 6/28 in one match, ending the series with nine wickets at 9.77.
The following WNCL season, Cameron made only 35 runs in her first four matches and was dropped for the remainder of the competition, although she was selected in the Australian Under-21 team to play against England and Australia.
The 2008–09 season started with a similar series, this time against Australia and India, and Cameron scored consecutive half-centuries and totalled 157 runs at 78.50. Cameron scored 206 runs at 22.88 in the WNCL season and won a call-up to the national team. She made her debut in the Rose Bowl series
Rose Bowl series
The Rose Bowl series is a series of Women's One-day International cricket matches between Australia and New Zealand that has been running since February 1985. It was originally known as the Shell Rose Bowl and the name was changed to the Rose Bowl Series as recently as 2001.Until 2000, the...
and after failing to capitalise on her starts in the first three matches, was dropped. Cameron was selected in six of Australia's seven matches for the 2009 World Cup
2009 Women's Cricket World Cup
The 2009 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held in Australia from 7 to 22 March 2009, using the sport's One Day International format....
, scoring 81 runs at 16.20 as the hosts placed fourth. She also played in the World Twenty20
2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20
The 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20 competition took on a different format from that of the men's, having eight teams split into two pools followed directly by the semi-finals and final. All pool stage matches were played at the County Ground in Taunton...
in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
but was dropped after the first match. She played in three of the five subsequent ODIs against England but failed to pass single figures.
Cameron made 236 runs at 26.22 in the 2009–10 WNCL to retain her position in the national squad for the Rose Bowl series, forcing her way into the team mid-way through the series. In the last three ODIs she played as makeshift wicket-keeper
Wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...
after Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Jean Healy is a cricketer who plays for New South Wales and the Australian women's team...
was left out, and made her maiden ODI half-century, 68, in the first of these three matches.
Domestic debut
At the age of 17, Cameron made her senior debut for VictoriaVictorian Spirit
The Victorian Spirit are the women's representative cricket team for Victoria and they compete in the Women's National Cricket League. They are one of only two sides to win a WNCL title - 2002/3 & 2004/5....
in the Women's National Cricket League
Women's National Cricket League
The Women's National Cricket League is the national competition for women's cricket in Australia.The league competition involves the six member teams playing each other in two 50-over limited-over matches, with the side finishing at the top of the table after the preliminary rounds earning the...
and played in all 11 of their matches for the 2006–07 season. In her first match, against reigning champions New South Wales
New South Wales Breakers
The New South Wales Breakers are the women's representative cricket team for New South Wales and they compete in the Women's National Cricket League...
, she made 12 runs in Victoria's 8/131 and then conceded six runs from her only over and took a catch as New South Wales reached their target with three wickets in hand. The next day Victoria won the second match of the double header, but Cameron was neither required to bat or bowl in the six-wicket win. In her first year, Cameron often batted at No. 7 or lower, and was not a frontline bowler, so she was effectively hidden from much of the play. She batted six times and bowled in seven matches, and in four matches, did neither. Her most productive outing with the bat came in the first match of a double-header against Queensland
Queensland Fire
The Queensland Fire are the women's representative cricket team for Queensland and they compete in the Women's National Cricket League.The Fire has played 104 matches for 36 wins, 1 tie, 4 no results and 63 losses.-External links:*The Homepage of...
, when she made 29 not out
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
in a 57-run win. The next day, she took her best bowling figures of the season with 2/29, but it was not enough to prevent a 80-run defeat. Victoria won six of their eight round-robin matches to qualify second for the three-match finals series, which were hosted by New South Wales in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
. In the first match, Cameron scored 28 as the hosts were bowled out for 136. New South Wales scored relatively freely from her bowling in a low-scoring match, taking 19 runs from her five overs as they reached their target of 137 with only one wicket in hand. Cameron neither batted nor bowled in the second match as Victoria levelled the series with an eight-wicket victory to force a deciding third final. She made 12 as Victoria batted first and made 7/205, but the visitors reached the target with three wickets in hand, scoring 16 runs from Cameron's two overs before she was relieved from the attack. Cameron ended her season with 92 runs at 18.40 and three wickets at 39.66 at an economy rate of 3.83.
Immediately after the WNCL season, Cameron was called into the Australia Youth team to play against New Zealand A, where she had more success as a bowler than a batsman. She was expensive in the first two matches, taking 1/37 from six overs and 2/24 from four overs. Australia won the first and the second match was tied. In the third and final match, she took 6/28 to dismiss New Zealand for 234. She made 17 but this was not enough to prevent a 22-run defeat. Cameron ended the series with 20 runs at 10.00 and nine wickets at 9.77.
Cameron had a poor start to the 2007–08 WNCL season, scoring 35 runs at 8.75 in Victoria's first four matches. She was run out in the latter two innings, and did not bowl, and was left out of the team for the remaining four games. She also took her only wicket in a senior match, taking 1/6 in a T20 match against Queensland. Nevertheless she was selected in the Australian Under-21 team at the end of the season to play against the senior England and Australian teams. In the first match, against England, she struck and unbeaten 53, before taking 2/32 and a catch in a 52-run win. In the following game, also against England, she made a duck and went wicketless in a defeat, before taking 1/31 and a catch in an eight-wicket win over Australia.
The new 2008–09 season started with a similar series, this time against Australia and India, although the Under-21s lost all of the three completed matches—a fourth was washed out. Cameron made 60 of 149 all out against India and then an unbeaten 79, scoring more than half of the team's 5/156 against Australia, in the last two matches. She ended with 157 runs at 78.50 and took two wickets at 54.00. Her bowling was uneconomical, conceding 5.68 runs per over, and she was attacked by the senior Australian women in the last match, conceding 36 runs in three overs. She has not bowled in a competitive match against senior opposition since then.
In the 2008–09 WNCL, Cameron played in all of Victoria's nine matches and scored 206 runs at 22.88 with a best of 58. In the last two round-robin matches of the season, she was one of the few Victorian batsmen to resist the bowling attack of the reigning champions New South Wales, scoring 36 and 58 in her team's 142 and 7/227 respectively. Victoria lost both matches, having won their first six fixtures, and New South Wales hosted the final the following week. Cameron made a duck and New South Wales won the match by six wickets to defend their title. In two domestic T20 matches, Cameron made 21 not out and 10.
International debut
Ahead of the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup2009 Women's Cricket World Cup
The 2009 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held in Australia from 7 to 22 March 2009, using the sport's One Day International format....
held in Australia, Cameron was called into the national team for her senior debut in the Rose Bowl tour of New Zealand. Cameron made her One Day International (ODI) debut in the first match of the series at Cobham Oval
Cobham Oval
The Cobham Oval is a cricket ground in Whangarei, New Zealand that stages daytime only first-class matches. It is one of the home grounds for the Northern Districts Knights...
in Whangarei
Whangarei
Whangarei, pronounced , is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the regional capital of Northland Region. Although commonly classified as a city, it is officially part of the Whangarei District, administered by the Whangarei District Council a local body created in 1989 to administer both the...
. Batting at No. 7, she and made 16 from 35 balls as Australia made 8/150. She then took two catches as Australia were defeated by two wickets with 26 balls to spare. Cameron made 26 and 23 in the next two matches at roughly a run-a-ball at the death, before being dropped for the final two matches. The teams then went to Australia for the World Cup, and played a T20 international at the Sydney Cricket Ground
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...
before the tournament, where Cameron made her debut for Australia in the shortest format. She was not required to bat or bowl as the hosts won a rain-shortened match.
In two warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup, Cameron made 14 and 42 against England and Sri Lanka respectively. She was included in the team for the opening match against New Zealand at North Sydney Oval
North Sydney Oval
-Development:* The first cricket pitch was laid on 6 December 1867, making it one of the oldest cricket grounds in Australia.* The first structure built, in 1879, was a simple pavilion overlooking the cricket ground...
, scoring 15 at No. 6 in Australia's failed run-chase. Cameron batted in the position for the entirety of the tournament. She came in at the death and made 16 not out from 14 balls in Australia's must-win match against South Africa as the hosts avoided elimination with a 61-run victory. She was then left out of the last group match, as Australia defeated West Indies to reach the next round. Cameron made 25 from 29 balls in Australia's first match of the next phase against India, which they lost by 16 runs.
She then made three runs from six deliveries against Pakistan before being bowled and took three catches in a 107-run win. She was not required to bat against England as the hosts took a seven-wicket win.
However it was not enough to place Australia in the top two nations and qualify for the final. They faced India in the third place playoff and Cameron fell for seven after struggling for 25 balls. The hosts were all out for 142 and India reached the target with three wickets in hand. Cameron ended the World Cup with 66 runs at 16.50 at a strike rate of 65.34.
Cameron was selected for the 2009 World Twenty20 in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and Australia hosted New Zealand for three T20 matches in tropical Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
during the southern hemisphere winter before the teams flew to the tournament. Cameron scored 15 in the first match, her only innings of the series. Once the Australians were in England, Cameron made five not out against the hosts in her only innings in the pre-tournament practice matches. Cameron made only one in Australia's first pool match again New Zealand, which they lost by nine wickets. She did not play another match in the tournament and Australia were eliminated in the semi-finals by England.
Australia stayed in England for a bilateral series against the hosts, who were the reigning world champions in both ODIs and T20s, after the end of the World Twenty20. Cameron was neither batted nor bowled as Australia upset England in the only T20. She was left out of the first two ODIs, but was recalled for the last three matches, scoring a duck, 3 not out and 3 not out; after batting at No. 6 in her first innings, she dropped down two positions for the remaining innings. England won all the matches except the last, which was washed out. Cameron was left out of the team for the one-off Test.
During the 2009–10 WNCL, Cameron made many starts without converting them into large innings. In nine round-robin matches, she reached double figures on all but one occasion, but failed to pass 32 until the last match, when she scored 52 against the Australian Capital Territory. In the final against New South Wales, she took three catches and made 32 as Victoria were bowled out for 147 and lost by 59 runs. She ended the campaign with 236 runs at 26.22. In the T20 competition, Cameron made 114 runs at 22.80, top-scoring with 49 not out in a win over South Australia. In the final against New South Wales, she made 27 of Victoria's 5/127 and held two catches as they took a 52-run win.
In the middle of the season, she played for the Australian Under-21s against New Zealand Emerging Players, and compiled 128 runs at 42.66 in five matches, with a best score of 66 in the fourth fixture. Australia won the series 4–1.
Makeshift wicket-keeper
Cameron was selected in the Australian squad for the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand, but was left out of the first four ODIs. She was called in for the final ODI on Australian soil, making 33 from 42 balls at No. 6 and taking two catches as Australia completed a 5–0 sweep. In the three T20s that followed at Bellerive OvalBellerive Oval
Bellerive Oval, also known as its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is primarily a cricket and Australian Rules Football ground located in Bellerive, City of Clarence, on the eastern shore of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia...
in Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
, she only played in the final match, making four as Australia lost 3–0. The series then headed to New Zealand, and Cameron played in both T20s, making 9 and 16 as the hosts won both. She then played in the three ODIs in New Zealand as a makeshift wicket-keeper after Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Jean Healy is a cricketer who plays for New South Wales and the Australian women's team...
was left out. Cameron top-scored with 68 in the first match, hitting six fours from 81 balls, helping the tourists to recover from a middle-order collapse. Australia scraped home by two wickets from the final ball. She was not required to bat in the last two matches, which the Australians won batting second, and made four dismissals in three matches behind the stumps.
2010 World Twenty20 triumph
Cameron was selected for the 2010 World Twenty202010 ICC Women's World Twenty20
The 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20 was an international Twenty20 cricket tournament which was held in the West Indies from 5 May to 16 May 2010. The group stage matches were played at the Warner Park Sporting Complex on Saint Kitts. It was won by Australia, who defeated New Zealand in the final...
in the West Indies and played in every match of Australia's unbeaten run, batting at No. 5 on every occasion. In the first warm-up match, she took a catch and made 19 from 22 balls as Australia lost to New Zealand by 18 runs. In the last warm-up match, she made 26 from 25 balls with one six as the Australians made 5/166 and defeated Pakistan by 82 runs.
Australia were grouped with England, South Africa and the West Indies. In the first match against England, Australia were set 105 for victory. They were struggling when Cameron came to the crease with the score at 3/44 in the ninth over, and Leah Poulton
Leah Poulton
Leah Joy Poulton is a female Australian cricketer who plays for New South Wales and Australia. She is a specialist batsman who usually opens the batting....
fell at 4/45 four balls later. She made 12 from 10 balls, hitting the solitary six of the match before falling to Holly Colvin
Holly Colvin
Holly Louise Colvin is an English cricketer and member of the current England women's cricket team.She currently holds the record of being the youngest Test cricketer of either sex to play for England.-School level:...
. This triggered a collapse of 3/3 in the space of 16 balls, to leave Australia at 7/63. However, Australia recovered and Rene Farrell
Rene Farrell
Rene Farrell is an Australian cricketer. A fast-medium pace bowler, she is a current member of the Australian team.Although Farrell was successful in age-group interstate cricket, she did not make her senior debut for New South Wales until late in the 2006–07 season a month before turning 20...
was run out
Run out
Run out is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket. It is governed by Law 38 of the Laws of cricket.-The rules:A batsman is out Run out if at any time while the ball is in play no part of his bat or person is grounded behind the popping crease and his wicket is fairly put down by the opposing...
going for the winning run from the third last ball available, leaving the scores tied.
A Super Over eventuated, and Australia made 2/6 as Cameron was not required to bat. On the third ball of England's Super Over, Claire Taylor
Claire Taylor
Samantha Claire Taylor MBE is a former English cricketer and retired member of the England women's team. A determined batsman, with almost 3,500 runs in over a hundred One Day International appearances, she was the top ranked female ODI batsman in the world going into the 2009 Women's World Cup...
tried to beat Cameron's arm for a second run, but lost and was run out. England were 1/5 after the fifth ball and needed two runs for victory. Beth Morgan hit the ball and went for two runs, but was unable to beat Cameron's throw and the scores were again tied. Australia was awarded the match because they had hit more sixes in the match—Cameron scored the solitary six.
In the next match against South Africa, Cameron came in at 3/101 and hit 27 from 18 balls including a six. Upon her fall at 5/139, a collapse started in the final overs, as Australia lost 6/16 including the last four wickets for four runs to be all out for 155 with three balls unused. The Australians completed a 22-run win. In the final group match against the hosts, Cameron came in at 3/52 and hit 13 from 17 balls, as Australia eventually finished on 7/133. She took one catch as Australia won by nine runs to finish the group stage unbeaten at the top of their quartet.
Australia went on to face India in the semi-final. Cameron took two catches to dismiss Sulakshana Naik
Sulakshana Naik
Sulakshana Naik is a cricketer who has played in 31 women's One Day Internationals, six Twenty20 internationals and two Tests for India.-References:...
and Poonam Raut
Poonam Raut
Poonam Raut is a cricketer who has played in four women's one-day internationals and four Twenty20 internationals for India.-References:...
and came to the crease with only 17 further runs required. She made 6 from 11 balls and was batting when Australia reached their target of 120 with seven wickets and seven balls to spare.
In the final against New Zealand, Australia batted and first and started poorly. Cameron came in to join Poulton with the score at 3/20 in the sixth over. The pair put on a partnership of 30, the largest in Australia's innings, but they were unable to lift the run rate
Run rate
In cricket, the run rate , or runs per over is the number of runs a batsman scores in an over of 6 balls. It includes all runs, even the so-called extras awarded due to errors by the bowler. Without extras and overthrows, the maximum run rate is 36 – if every ball were struck for six and, as...
substantially; their stand took 45 balls. Poulton was out trying to loft a ball over cover, and two balls later, Cameron was bowled by Kate Broadmore's first ball, leaving Australia at 5/51 in the 13th over. Only Poulton managed a solitary boundary and Cameron ended with 14 from 24 balls. Australia eventually reached 8/106 after a late burst of scoring. New Zealand ended on 6/103, sealing an Australian win by three runs.