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SYDNEY, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Australia’s Belinda Clark has become the first female cricketer to be honored with a statue, a bronze sculpture of the pioneering former captain unveiled outside the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday.
Clark played 15 Tests and over 100 limited-overs matches between 1991 and 2005, becoming the first cricketer to score two hundreds in One-Day Internationals when he scored an unbeaten 229 against Denmark in 1997.
The 52-year-old’s statue stands alongside former captains Richie Benaud and Steve Waugh on the ground.
“I’m excited that the sculpture is in place and people can now look at it and maybe wonder … who he is and being able to tell a bit of the story is really important,” said Clark, who has held senior roles in the Australian cricket board since retirement after staying.
“The sculpture encapsulates the ability to go — to be brave, to take on these challenges and to break convention.”
Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne; Editing by Peter Rutherford
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