Debbie Hockley

Deborah Ann 'Hockley' is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. Hockley was the first woman to become President of New Zealand Cricket. She is the highest runs-scorer in the Women's Cricket World Cup.

Domestic career

Hockley played domestic cricket for Canterbury and North Shore [women's cricket team|North Shore].

International career

Hockley appeared in 19 Test matches for New Zealand, making a high score of 126 not out and averaging 52.04 with the bat. Hockley captained New Zealand in six Tests, drawing them all. She also appeared in 118 Women's [One Day International|One Day Internationals] for New Zealand, averaging 41.89 with the bat. She captained New Zealand in 27 of them, winning 12 and losing 15. She was also Player of the Match in the 1997 [Women's Cricket World Cup#Final|World Cup final] in India in 1997 and holds the record for scoring the most runs by any woman in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, playing in five World Cups.
Hockley was the first woman to reach 4000 ODI runs and to play 100 ODIs. She was also the first woman to score 1,000 runs in ODIs for New Zealand. Her international career spanned from 1979 to 2000.

International centuries

Runs	Match	Opponents	City	Venue	Year
107*	6		Canterbury, England	St Lawrence Ground	New Zealand women's cricket team in England and [the Netherlands in 1984#3rd Test\|1984]
126*	8		Auckland, New Zealand	Cornwall Park	1990
107	14		Nelson, New Zealand	Trafalgar Park	1995
115	18		Worcester, England	New Road	1996

Source: CricInfo

Runs	Match	Opponents	City	Venue	Year
117	74		Chester-le-Street, England	Riverside Ground	1996
100*	87		Chandigarh, India	Sector 16 Stadium	1997
100	88		Chandigarh, India	Sector 16 Stadium	1997
100	99		Melbourne, Australia	Albert Cricket Ground	2000

Source: CricInfo

Honours

In the 1999 [New Year Honours (New Zealand)|1999 New Year Honours], Hockley was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cricket. She was the fourth woman to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2013. Her final WODI appearance was in the 2000 [Women's Cricket World Cup Final|final] of the 2000 Women's Cricket World Cup.
In 2016 she was the first woman to be elected president of New Zealand Cricket in its 122-year history.
In the 2021 New Year Honours, Hockley was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cricket. In 2023, the award for New Zealand's most outstanding female cricketer of the year, the Debbie Hockley Medal, was named in her honour.