Claire Polosak
Claire Antonia Polosak is an Australian cricket umpire. She stood as umpire in one Women's Twenty20 International. In January 2017, she was one of four female umpires named by the ICC to stand in matches in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
On 8 October 2017, she became the first woman to stand as an onfield umpire in a men's domestic fixture in Australia, when she was one of the umpires in the match between New South Wales and Cricket Australia XI in the 2017–18 JLT One-Day Cup. On 11 January 2018, she became the first woman to umpire a match involving the England men's cricket team, when she stood in a one-day warm up match between England and a Cricket Australia XI.
In October 2018, she was named as one of the twelve on-field umpires for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20. In April 2019, she was named as one of the eight on-field umpires for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament in Namibia. She was appointed as one of the on-field umpires for the final, becoming the first woman to stand in a men's One Day International match. In May 2019, the International Cricket Council named her as one of the eight women on the ICC Development Panel of Umpires. In August 2019, she was named as one of the umpires to officiate in matches during the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland. In February 2020, the ICC named her as one of the umpires to officiate in matches during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.
Polosak is a school teacher by profession.
