Christina Gough

Christina Maria Gough (born 18 February 1994) is a German cricketer who plays for the national cricket team as an all-rounder. She has twice been involved in setting a new record for a team's highest score without losing a wicket across all Twenty20 Internationals.
Early life and career.
Gough was born in Hamburg, but was raised in England, where she attended Solihull School in Solihull, West Midlands. She began playing cricket at the age of 10, initially in the garden with her older brother, and then with a club. In 2020, she told "die tageszeitung" (translation):
From 2007 to 2011, Gough played in junior teams for Warwickshire, England, and in 2012 she played for the Warwickshire first XI, which was Division 2 champion in that season's Women's County Championship. Between 2014 and 2016, she played three matches for Oxford University women against Cambridge University women. In 2016, she completed a Master of Arts in Modern Languages (German) at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
That year, Gough moved to Hamburg, where she has worked since then as a statistics researcher and freelance translator. She has also been playing cricket for the THCC Rot-Gelb women's team, which won the German women's championship in 2019, and association football for Altona 93.
International career.
Soon after her move to Hamburg, Gough was first selected for the German national team. On 26 June 2019, she made her WT20I debut for, and also captained, Germany against Scotland at the La Manga Club Ground, Murcia, Spain, in the first match of the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Europe, which was also Germany's first ever WT20I. The following month, she was selected in that year's ICC Women’s Global Development Squad, which played six Twenty20 matches on a tour of England.
On 4 February 2020, in the first WT20I match of a bilateral series between Germany and Oman at the Al Amerat Cricket Stadium, Muscat, Gough shared in an unbroken partnership of 158 with Janet Ronalds, during which both batters scored 71*. Gough also took two wickets for eight runs, from three overs with one maiden, and was chosen as player of the match. Germany's victory in the match, by 115 runs, was the team's first in a WT20I; the German team eventually won the WT20I series 4–0.
On 12 August 2020, in the first match of another bilateral series, between Germany and Austria at the Seebarn Cricket Ground, Gough hit a player of the match-winning 72, then Germany's highest individual score in T20Is for either the men's or women's teams. The following day, in the second match of the series, she scored 66*, and shared with Ronalds in an unbroken first wicket partnership of 191, to power Germany to its highest ever WT20I total of 191/0. The partnership was the fourth-biggest in WT20Is, and Germany's total also set a new record for the highest score by a team without losing a wicket across all T20Is. In the fourth match of the series, played on 14 August 2020, Gough scored 101* to rack up her maiden WT20I century, and combined with Ronalds to amass a team total of 198/0, which eclipsed all of Gough's and Ronalds' combined achievements of the previous day. Germany ended up winning the series 5–0.
Gough's total of 348 WT20I runs in 2020 made her the fifth-highest run-scorer in WT20I matches during the year. She reached that total in nine matches, at an average of 87.00 and a strike rate of 127.47. Additionally, in bowling 27 overs while conceding only 62 runs, she achieved the best WT20I economy rate, of 2.29, for the year among all bowlers who bowled a minimum of 20 overs.