Zoe Britcliffe

Originally from Queensland and growing up in Port Hedland, Zoe Britcliffe is a country girl now living in Perth and playing for the WA Women’s team. Zoe’s first sporting dream was to be a swimmer, then a softball player. It wasn’t until 2015 when she was asked to fill in for a boy’s country team did she realise that she could play. Her previous experience only being a tennis ball and a 10m pitch of synthetic grass and concrete that was her family’s backyard.

The first club she joined was the Wanderers Cricket Club, a men’s club, at the age of 14 where she spent two seasons playing. She then moved to South Perth Cricket Club, and most recently with Wanneroo. Having caught the attention of the female programs at WA Cricket, Zoe made the decision to move to Perth and attend boarding school to give herself better opportunities in the female game.

She represented WA through the pathways levels over five seasons before earning her first professional contract in the WNCL for WA in the 2020/21 season and is now into her 6th season.

Zoe is a crafty middle and death over bowler who has skill and consistency in spades, making her difficult to bat against. She is also a handy lower order bat, showing consistent performances here when required. A WNCL highlight in season 2023/24 was taking 3/65 off 10 overs and 4/32 off 9, including Meg Lanning’s wicket twice, in a match against Victoria. She also scored 16 off 13 balls to be named player of the match.

Zoe is yet to make her WBBL debut, but it remains high on her career goal list.