Maria Frances Fahey is a New Zealand

New Zealand women's cricket team

The New Zealand women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1935, when they lost to England. Since then they have only won two Tests, once against Australia, and once against South Africa....

 cricketer who plays for the Canterbury Magicians

Canterbury Magicians

The Canterbury Magicians are a New Zealand women's cricket team that plays domestic cricket in the State League....

 in the State League

State League

The State League is the premier domestic women's one-day cricket competition in New Zealand. The competition was first competed in the 2001–02 season, when it replaced the State Insurance Cup, which had run since 1998–99. It is contested with a ten-match group stage, in which each of...

, as well as the national team. She made her Test

Women's Test cricket

Women's Test cricket is the longest format of women's cricket and is the gender equivalent to men's Test cricket. Matches comprise four-innings and are held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations...

 debut for New Zealand in November 2003, and her One Day International debut a few days later.

Fahey was a member of the highly successful Timaru Girls' High School

Timaru Girls' High School

Timaru Girls' High School is a secondary school in Timaru, New Zealand, founded in 1880. Timaru Girls' High provides education for girls aged between 13 – 18 years of age . It also has a boarding facility within the school grounds for pupils not living in Timaru itself and also caters for...

 team during the late 1990s, and was part of the New Zealand Cricket Academy in 2002. Her first international tour, that of India in 2003, saw her average over 50 with the bat, making three half-centuries in the process.

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