Who is Nat Sciver-Brunt? Know About Her Boyfriend, Family, Career, Stats and More

What are the odds for someone to be born in Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, and then move across to Poland to play football and then to the Netherlands to play basketball but eventually fall in love with the game of Cricket and end up playing for the national team of England. Well, Natalie Sciver-Brunt has had a whirlwind journey right from the start and today she has established herself as one of the best all-rounders the women’s game has ever seen.

Nat Sciver-Brunt Personal Information:

Nat Sciver-Brunt Early life, Family, Father and Mother:

Born on 20^th August 1992 in Tokyo, Japan to her parents, Julia Longbottom and Richard, Natalie Sciver spent her early childhood in Japan. Her mother, Julia Longbottom, a British Diplomat resided in Japan when Nat was born and since March 2021 she has been the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Japan. Her partner and Nat’s father, Richard, is a businessman.

Nat Sciver first picked up Football and for that, she moved to Poland where she played league Football. She then also tried her hands at Tennis and Basketball but it was in the Netherlands where she discovered her love for the game of cricket in her formative years and moved to England to pursue the game professionally.

Nat Sciver-Brunt Jersey Number:

Natalie-Sciver Brunt wears the number 39 on her back when she plays for the England Women. It is not known why Nat has chosen the number 39, cricketers usually do so as per their personal preferences such as their birth dates or any other attachment.

Nat-Sciver Brunt Partner:

Nat-Sciver Brunt announced her engagement to her fellow England Women’s Cricketer Katherine Sciver-Brunt (Katherine Brunt, then) in October 2019. The duo were supposed to be married in 2020 but their marriage was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eventually, Nat and Katherine got married in 2022 and since then both have changed their respective last names to Sciver-Brunt.

Nat’s wife, Katherine Sciver-Brunt is a former England Women’s cricketer who represented England Women in 14 Women’s test matches, 141 WODIs and 112 WT20Is in her 19-year long career spanning from 2004 to 2023. She holds the record for the maximum number of international wickets for England Women taking 335 wickets and is also one of the fastest women’s pacer to have played the game.

Nat Sciver-Brunt Net Worth and Salary:

One of the highest-paid female athletes in her country, Nat Sciver-Brunt has a net worth close to $2 Million (which translates close to ₹16 Cr) annually.

While Nat-Sciver Brunt holds a central contract with ECB where she receives a healthy yearly salary apart from the match fee for every match she plays, Nat Sciver-Brunt is also the most expensive foreign player in the WPL with an annual salary of ₹3.2 Cr where she plays for Mumbai Indians.

Nat Sciver-Brunt Instagram:

Nat Sciver-Brunt has an influential presence in social media. She has 154k followers on Instagram and her username is @natsciver and this is her profile link – https://www.instagram.com/natsciver/?hl=en

Nat Sciver-Brunt Twitter:

On X (formerly known as Twitter), Nat Sciver-Brunt is followed by over 42k users. Her handle is @natsciver and you can visit her profile here – https://x.com/natsciver?lang=en

Nat Sciver-Brunt Career:

Before getting into the England Women’s team, Nat Sciver-Brunt put in the hard yards in the county circuit for Surrey. Her performances in two consecutive seasons, 2012 and 2013, caught the eyes of the selectors and she received her first national call-up in the English summer of 2013 for the white-ball series against Pakistan Women where she made her debut, first in the 50-over format and then less than a week later in the T20 format.

She immediately hit her straps and got her first player-of-the-match in her second ODI itself when she registered impressive figures of 3/28 (9) against her maiden rivals in international cricket. It was fitting in a sense that her bowling earned her the award as her batting was still a work in progress when she entered the international arena but she was definitely more than a handful with the ball right from her initial days. Proving the same, she became the first English cricketer to register a hat-trick in T20Is when she got 3 wickets in 3 balls against the White Ferns in Oct 2013.

Cut to June 2016, she scored the second-fastest fifty in the history of Women’s ODIs in just 22 balls as she decimated Pakistan Women at Worcester and this knock was a testimony to the fact that her batting had indeed grown leaps and bounds. Her jaw-dropping average of 100 in the England Women’s Tour of Australia in 2014 was a sign of greater things to come in future as a 21-year-old Nat Sciver announced her arrival at the big stage.

She has a unique distinction of owning a particular shot, the famous Natmeg shot is named her in which she expertly plays the ball between her legs through the backward square leg region and that is often a spectacle to watch when she does that.

She won the Women’s ODI World Cup with England Women in 2017 on home soil defeating India Women in the Final and Nat Sciver-Brunt (Nat Sciver, at that time) was a chief contributor for her side with 369 runs and 7 wickets in the campaign. Her stellar performance saw her being named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2018.

Nat Sciver-Brunt was England’s leading run-scorer in the Women’s T20 World Cup 2018 and 2022 as well as the Women’s ODI World Cup in 2021 showing her prowess with the bat and how she has transformed herself into more of a batting all-rounder now who is as reliable as they get in the middle order. She is also the fifth on the list of the highest number of centuries in Women’s ODIs with 9 centuries to her name.

She is currently ranked number 4 in the WODI batters as well as the WODI all-rounders’ list while in the WT20Is she is number 13 on the batters’ list and is ranked number 8 among the all-rounders.

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Nat Sciver-Brunt Achievements & Awards:

·        Won the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award in 2022 & 2023 (ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year Award)

·         Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2018 (one of the five cricketers to receive the award that year)

·        Won the Walter Lawrence Women’s Award in 2014, 2018 & 2022 (Fastest century in English domestic county season)

·        PCA Women’s Player of the Year in 2017 & 2022 (Fastest century in English domestic county season)

·         Winner of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup in 2017 with England Women

·         Winner of the WPL in 2023 with Mumbai Indians Women

·         Second fastest fifty in the history of WODIs (in 22 balls against Pakistan Women)

·         First English cricketer (male or female) to register a hat-trick in T20Is (against New Zealand Women in Oct 2013)

·         Scored the fastest ton by an English Woman in WODIs (off 66 balls against Sri Lanka Women)