, 2015 An aggressive right arm fast bowler with a classical action, she played for Yorkshire age group sides before taking a break from cricket at the age of 17 due to fitness concerns. She went to
Penistone Grammar School, Barnsley,
South Yorkshire. She returned for the Test against New Zealand in 2004 and was a member of the 2005 England World Cup side in South Africa. She took 14 wickets and scored her maiden half century as England won the Ashes in 2005 and opened the bowling in England's successful 2009 World Cup Campaign. She was Player of the Match in the 2009 Twenty20 World championship final at Lords, taking 3 wickets for 6 runs in her 4 over opening spell and took a career best 6 for 69 in the one off Ashes Test which followed. Her best figures in one day internationals came in the final of the
2011 NatWest Women's Quadrangular Series where her 5 for 18 bowled England to victory over Australia. She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players, which were announced in April 2014. Brunt was a member of the winning women's team at the
2017 Women's Cricket World Cup held in England. In October 2018, she was named in England's squad for the
2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. However, she was ruled out of the tournament due to a back injury and was replaced by
Fran Wilson. In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for 2019. In June 2019, the ECB named her in England's squad for their opening match
against Australia to contest the
Women's Ashes. In December 2019, in the opening match of England's series
against Pakistan in Malaysia, Brunt took her 150th wicket in WODI matches. 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, Brunt 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. In June 2021, Brunt was named as in England's
Test squad for their one-off match
against India. In December 2021, Brunt was named in England's squad for their
tour to Australia to contest the
Women's Ashes. In February 2022, she was named in England's team for the
2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. In April 2022, she was bought by the
Trent Rockets for the
2022 season of
The Hundred. In July 2022, she was named in England's team for the
cricket tournament at the
2022 Commonwealth Games in
Birmingham, England. Later the same month, during England's home series
against South Africa, Brunt took her 100th wicket in WT20I cricket. On 30 July 2022, in England's first fixture of the Commonwealth Games, against
Sri Lanka, Brunt played in her 100th WT20I match. In January 2023, Brunt announced her retirement from county and regional cricket. In May 2023, Sciver-Brunt announced her retirement from all international cricket. ==Personal life==