Charmaine Mason

Charmaine Mason

Personal information
Full name	Charmaine Lea Mason
Born	(1970-09-20) 20 September 1970 Sutherland, Sydney, Australia
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	Australia (1992–2001)
Test debut (cap 124)	19 February 1992 v England
Last Test	6 July 2001 v England
ODI debut (cap 83)	7 February 1997 v Pakistan
Last ODI	15 July 2001 v Ireland
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1989/90–2000/01	Victoria
Career statistics
Competition WTest WODI WFC WLA Matches 5 46 13 109 Runs scored 0 66 80 318 Batting average – 6.00 16.00 7.22 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 0* 11* 49 47 Balls bowled 1,063 2,366 1,900 5,670 Wickets 13 83 25 165 Bowling average 26.07 13.85 24.96 14.86 5 wickets in innings 0 2 0 2 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 4/40 5/9 4/40 5/9 Catches/stumpings 0/– 16/– 0/– 29/–
Source: CricketArchive, 14 January 2022

Charmaine Lea Mason (born 20 September 1970) is an Australian former cricketer who played as a right-arm fast bowler. She appeared in 5 Test matches and 46 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1992 and 2001. She played domestic cricket for Victoria.

Charmaine made her first class debut for Victoria in 1989/90 where she began to form a lethal combination of speed with opening bowler partner Cathryn Fitzpatrick. They were the perfect foil: Fiztpatrick’s raw pace was complemented by Mason's bag of tricks and pace. Not only did they cause havoc and terrorise the other Australian states, but before long became a much heralded pace attack in both Tests and ODIs.

Mason made her Australia Test debut in 1990/91 against England at North Sydney Oval. Her first wicket, the England captain, Helen Plimmer. Her next one, former England captain, Carole Hodges. She collected 4-40 and 3-39 to complete an excellent debut with the ball. In five Test matches Mason had one innings, 0*. More importantly, 13 Test wickets at 26.07.

A debut in ODIs came in 1996/7 and it is in this format where Mason really excelled. (Not with the bat) In 46 matches, 83 wickets at the miserly rate of just 13.85, an economy of 2.91 (Still World Class to this day) and best performance of 5-9. Charmaine Mason was also part of the World Cup winning team in 1997.

With many years still left in her career, Charmaine retired from cricket unexpectedly in 2001 at age 31 to further her career away from sport. She has resided in the United Kingdom since 2001.

External links

• Charmaine Mason at ESPNcricinfo
• Charmaine Mason at CricketArchive (subscription required)
• Charmaine Mason at southernstars.org.au