Tara Norris Height, Age, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tara Norris

• Tara Norris is an American cricketer who plays for Sussex, North West Thunder, and Southern Brave. Previously, she was part of Loughborough Lightning and Southern Vipers.

• According to a media report, she is half-Italian. When she was young, she stayed in Spain but moved to England at the age of eight. She began playing cricket for Horsham Cricket Club at a young age.
  

  Tara Norris with her teammates as a part of Horsham Cricket Club

• When she was eighteen years old, she took a year gap after finishing school and starting to study at university. She opted to play and coach cricket and continued to follow her dream. She had no contacts in Australia, so she e-mailed some Melbourne clubs and got a response from Prahran Cricket Club and joined the club in 2017.

• From September 2012 to January 2016, she did a part-time job at Barista, UK.

• In 2015, she started giving cricket coaching at Bricklehurst Manor School, England.

• In November 2015, she joined a retail company ‘The Co-operative Group’ as a Customer Team Manager.

• She started giving coaching at Sussex County Cricket Club in July 2016.

• In December 2016, she became a cricket coach at Melbourne Grammar School in Australia.

• In April 2017, she started giving cricket coaching to a charitable organisation, Chance to Shine.

• In May 2017, she became a cricket fielding coach at Rottingdean cricket club for Men’s 1st to 4th teams.

• In April 2018, she became the ambassador of the cricket team Loughborough lightning.

• In 2013, she was part of the Women’s Domestic U15 Twenty20.

• In 2016, she played Women’s Domestic Representative One Inning and Women’s Domestic Representative Twenty20.

• In 2017, she was part of Women’s Domestic Twenty20 and the Women’s Club Twenty20.
  

  Tara Norris with her teammate after winning Women’s Club Twenty20

• She made her debut in 2014 for Sussex women’s cricket team against Warwickshire women’s cricket team, but in the match, she did not get a chance to bowl or bat.

• In 2015, she was part of the Sussex squad that won the 2015 Women’s Twenty20 Cup.

• In the 2018 Women’s County Championship, she gave a good performance and took 10 wickets at an average of 10.30.

• In 2019, in the T20 match with Warwickshire, she became the team’s second-leading wicket-taker in two matches, was the batting opener and hit her maiden county half-century scoring 59 runs.

• In 2017, she was part of the Southern Vipers in the Women’s Cricket Super League. She got a chance to play one match in which she bowled three overs and took the wicket of Jenny Gunn.

• In 2018, she changed her team from Southern Vipers to Loughborough Lightning but was not given a chance to play for them till 2019. She appeared thrice in the tournament and bowled three overs, but did not take any wickets.

• In 2020, she again switched to Southern Vipers for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. In the tournament, she appeared in seven matches and in the final match against Northern Diamonds, her team won by  38 runs. In a match against Western Storm, she took 12 wickets at an average of 17.91 and earned the figure 4/45. She became the joint-third leading wicket-taker in the whole tournament.

• In 2021, in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, she took 13 wickets at an average of 13.30 and became the joint-second leading wicket-taker.

• In 2021, she bowled 3.5 overs in the tournament against Loughborough Lightning and earned 4/14 wickets which made her achieve her Twenty20 best bowling.

• In 2021, she achieved her List A best bowling figure of 4/14 after she took 11 wickets at an average of 30.09 against North West Thunder in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. In the final match of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, she was 40 not out in a partnership with Emily Windsor. Her team Southern Vipers won the match by 109/7. In an interview, she talked about her performance and said,
  

  A dramatic game of cricket with a lot of ups and downs. I thought we bowled really well at the start and we knew it was an achievable total to chase down. I was glad I was there at the end with Winny (Emily Windsor) to see it home. When I walked out I just said to Winny we’ve got to take it deep. If we bat the 50 overs we win the game. So it was about holding our nerve just that little bit longer, playing our usual cricket, nothing high risk.”

  

  Tara Norris and her team after winning Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy

• In 2021, she played six matches for Southern Brave in the 2021 season of The Hundred and took 3 wickets at an average of 22.66.

• In 2022, she became the leading wicket-taker of Southern Vipers in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy with 12 wickets at an average of 19.75.

• In 2022, she took 2 wickets in four matches in the Charlotte Edwards Cup.

• In 2022, she was part of the Southern Brave squad in the 2022 season of The Hundred but did not get a chance to play any match. At the end of the tournament, it was announced that she joined North West Thunder.

• In September 2021, she was part of the United States squad for the 2021 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier. She made her Twenty20 international debut against Brazil on 18 October 2021. She played five matches for the USA in the tournament and took 4 wickets at an average of 7.75 leading the team to qualify for the 2022 ICC Women’s World Twenty20. In October 2021, she was in the American squad for the 2021 Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe.
  

  Tara Norris with her team after winning the Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe

• In the 2022 Women’s Twenty20 Cup against Surrey, she took 8 wickets at an average of 7.87 and earned Twenty20 best bowling figures of 4/11.

• In 2018, she appeared for England Development and Academy teams in a tournament in South Africa.
  

  Tara Norris batting tournament in South Africa

• In 2023, she was bought by the Delhi Capitals for Rs. 10 Lakh for the Women’s Premier League (cricket) 2023.

• She is a coach at Eastbourne College, England. In an interview, she talked about this and said,
  

  When I was at school there were no female role models to look up. So, that’s why my job is to coach these girls and show them what can be achieved. I’m really pleased I can do that.”

  

  Tara Norris giving coaching at Eastbourne College

• She often posts pictures of herself drinking wine on social media.
  

  Tara Norris holding a glass of wine