Georgia Elwiss


Georgia Amanda Elwiss is an English international cricketer.

Career

She was raised in Wolverhampton with her brother Luke and is a right-arm medium fast bowler and right-handed batsman. She has played for the Diamonds in the UK and gained experience with ACT Women in Australia in the 2010/11 season. She was picked for the England one day tour of South Africa in October 2011 and made her one-day international debut for England against South Africa at Potchefstroom on 23 October 2011. She made her Twenty/20 debut on the same tour at Potchefstroom on Oct 30, 2011.
Elwiss attended Wolverhampton Girls' High School from 2002 until 2009, and went on to study at Loughborough University and then on to Loughborough MCC University
She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014.
In April 2015, she was named as one of the England women's Academy squad tour to Dubai, where England women will play their Australian counterparts in two 50-over games, and two Twenty20 matches.
Elwiss was a member of the winning women's team at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup held in England.
In November 2018, she was named in the Melbourne Stars' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board for 2019. In January 2020, she was named in England's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.
On 18 June 2020, Elwiss was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training ahead of international women's fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personal life

Elwiss is in a same-sex relationship with England women's national football team goalkeeper Carly Telford.