Shauna Kavanagh

Shauna Kavanagh was born in Dublin on 21 April 1992, the kind of ordinary beginning that later becomes extraordinary because she kept doing the hard thing. She became Ireland’s wicket-keeper, played for the Scorchers, and in June 2022 reached her hundredth international match during a home series against South Africa. A hundred games is not a small life; it is a long argument that patience, skill and belonging can carry one woman from a Dublin birthplace onto the world stage.