Nicole Bolton


Nicole Elizabeth Bolton is a cricketer who plays for Western Australia and Australia as a batsman. She made her ODI debut on 23 January 2014 when she scored 124 runs off 152 balls—the highest score by an Australian woman in an ODI. She moved over to Victoria at the start of the 2014–15 season to play for the VicSpirit.
In June 2015, she was named as one of Australia's touring party for the 2015 Women's Ashes in England, as a Test and ODI specialist who was not expected to play in the T20 internationals.
In April 2018, she was one of the fourteen players to be awarded a national contract for the 2018–19 season by Cricket Australia. In October 2018, she was named in Australia's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.
In November 2018, she was named in the Perth Scorchers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. In April 2019, Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract ahead of the 2019–20 season. In June 2019, Cricket Australia named her in Australia's team for their tour to England to contest the Women's Ashes. She returned to the Australian squad, after taking a five-month break from the game dealing with a mental health issue.