Devine was born in Kenepuru hospital, Porirua, New Zealand, and grew up in Tawa, a northern suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, where she attended Greenacres School and Tawa College. She began to play cricket and hockey at the age of four and wanted to become an All Black. At Tawa College, she played cricket mainly in the boys' teams including representative Wellington age group teams and the Tawa College boys first 11 and she played in the boys premier hockey team for the Tawa club. In her last year at Tawa College, she was awarded the bowling 'wicket' for the most wickets in the season. A previous winner was Black CapsMark Gillespie. She started playing Senior women's hockey at age 14 and made her first-class cricket debut as a 14-year-old. At the end of 2006, Devine shifted to Christchurch with her family when her father was relocated with his work. After attending Rangi Ruru Girls' School for her final high school year she attended the University of Canterbury completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Sociology.
Career
Devine was selected for the New Zealand women's national cricket team, the White Ferns, at age 17 and became one of the youngest-ever members of the team. She was in a home economics class at Tawa College when the White Ferns coach, Steve Jenkin, gave her the news. In November 2018, she was named in the Adelaide Strikers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. In March 2019, she was named as the ANZ International Women's T20 Player of the Year at the annual New Zealand Cricket awards. She also took over as captain as Amy Satterthwaite went on maternity leave. In January 2020, she was named as the captain of New Zealand's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. On 10 February 2020, in the fourth WT20I match against South Africa, Devine scored her first century in a WT20I match. In the same match, she became the first cricketer to make five consecutive scores of fifty or more in T20Is. In New Zealand's first match of the Women's T20 World Cup, against Sri Lanka, Devine became the first cricketer, male or female, to make six consecutive scores of fifty or more in T20I cricket. She was the leading run-scorer for New Zealand in the tournament, with 132 runs in four matches.
Records
On 11 July 2015, Devine broke the international record for the fastest Twenty20 half century, and fastest 70 runs, and included scoring 32 off one over in the first match against India. She holds the record for scoring the fastest ever fifty in Women's Twenty20 International history. During a match against Pakistan at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, Devine became the first woman to hit nine sixes in Women's One-day International cricket. In 2020, she became the first player to score fifties in 6 consecutive T20Is.
