Belinda Clark AO
Australian Former Cricketer & Leadership Speaker
As a cricketer she was a prolific run-scorer and a young captain who learned on the run — handed the Australian side three years into her international career and asked to rebuild it. She led Australia 101 times across more than a decade, winning two World Cups and turning a part-time team into the benchmark of the world game. Then she crossed the picket fence, leading the 2001 integration of women's cricket into Cricket Australia and running everything from the national academy to community participation. Her statue stands at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the first of a female cricketer anywhere in the world. Today she coaches leaders, and speaks about what she learned on both sides of that fence.
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Belinda Clark AO has spent her working life on both sides of the picket fence: first as one of Australia’s greatest cricketers, then as the executive helping evolve and build the game she had played.
She made 104 on Test debut at 2and barely paused. Across a 14-year international career she scored 4,844 one-day runs at 47.49 and 919 Test runs at 45.90, and in 1997 became the first cricketer of any gender to make a double century in a one-day international — 229 not out, off 155 balls. She captained Australia 101 times across more than a decade, winning World Cups in 1997 and 2005 and turning a part-time side into the benchmark of the world game.
Then she crossed the fence. As CEO of Women’s Cricket Australia she led the 2001 integration of the women’s and men’s games — a deliberate bet on the generations coming after her. At Cricket Australia she ran the national academy, led team performance through one of the sport’s hardest periods, and headed community cricket, accountable for the experience of hundreds of thousands of kids, parents and volunteers. She has served on the ICC Cricket Committee, the ICC Women’s Committee and the ICC T20 World Cup Board, and completed Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
Belinda was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2018. She is an inductee of the ICC, Australian Cricket and Sport Australia Halls of Fame — elevated to Legend status in 2025 — and won the AFR Women of Influence award for Arts, Culture and Sport in 2019. In 2023 her statue was unveiled at the SCG beside Benaud and Waugh, the first sculpture of a female cricketer anywhere in the world.
She now coaches athletes, leadership teams and executives through her practice, The Leadership Playground.
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Belinda speaks about the leadership lessons of a career spent on both sides of the picket fence:
Performing and leading in public, under pressure; building teams designed to keep getting better; making change stick inside complex, federated organisations; and why helping the next generation step up into leadership brings so much joy.
