Isabelle Westbury
cricketer
Isabelle "Izzy" Westbury (born 8 March 1990) is a sports journalist, lawyer, military officer and former cricketer. As a cricketer, she was a right-arm off break bowler and played for Somerset and Middlesex. She captained Middlesex for two seasons, in 2015 and 2016. Westbury also appeared in one One Day International.
She was President of the Oxford Union in 2011–12. Westbury retired from playing cricket in 2017 and went on to work as a print and broadcast journalist for The Daily Telegraph and the BBC. She is a Legal Officer in the Royal Air Force.
Early life
Born in Hammersmith, London, Westbury experienced a nomadic childhood, living in Mongolia, Malaysia, Easter Island, Syria and the Netherlands. She first started playing cricket in the Netherlands, after being prevented from playing club football alongside boys beyond the age of 13, at the "very traditional club" near her house.
Westbury studied for an undergraduate degree in Physiology at Hertford College, Oxford, graduating in 2013. In addition to her cricket career, she also played hockey for Oxford, achieving her Blue by playing in the Varsity Hockey Match against Cambridge in March 2010.
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