Sciver's mother, an employee of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, was based in Japan at the time of Sciver's birth. Before moving to England, Sciver had also lived in Poland, where she played in women's league football, and the Netherlands, where she played basketball.
Career
She began playing cricket as a teenager, and played for Surrey club side Stoke d'Abernon. She also played cricket at school, playing in the Epsom College school 1st XI for two seasons. After a period in Surrey's Academy she played for the Surrey county team and progressed to the England Women's Academy. After some successful games in the Academy team, she was selected for the 2013 limited-overs series against Pakistan where she made her debut for the full England side. In a T20 game against New Zealand, she became the first England cricketer to take an international T20 hat-trick. Sciver made her Test debut against Australia at Perth in the 2013/14 Ashes series, scoring a total of 72 runs and taking one wicket. She also played in the recent Test against India. She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014. |alt=Sciver bowling for England during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup 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. She along with Heather Knight set the highest 3rd wicket run stand in the history of Women's Cricket World Cup during the 2017 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup. In the same world cup, Sciver along with Tammy Beaumont set the highest record partnership for the 4th wicket in Women's World Cup history. Sciver was a member of the winning women's team at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup held in England. In 2018 she was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for her part in the World Cup victory the previous summer. In October 2018, she was named in England's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named as the standout player in the team by the International Cricket Council. In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board for 2019. In March 2019, during the third Women's Twenty20 International match against Sri Lanka, Sciver scored her 1,000th run in WT20I cricket. In June 2019, the ECB named her in England's squad for their opening match against Australia to contest the Women's Ashes. 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, Sciver 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.
