# Amelia Kerr

Amelia Charlotte Kerr (born 13 October 2000) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the New Zealand women's national cricket team. On 13 June 2018, Kerr made the highest individual score in a WODI match, and became the youngest cricketer, male or female, to score a double century in One Day International cricket, when she scored 232 not out against Ireland. The double century was also the third-highest individual score, male or female, in an ODI, second-highest by a New Zealander and highest in a Women's ODI. Later in the same match, she also took 5 wickets for 17 runs, her first five-wicket haul in WODIs.In August 2018, she was awarded a central contract by New Zealand Cricket, following the tours of Ireland and England in the previous months.