Helmien Rambaldo

Helmien Willie Rambaldo (born 13 November 1980) is a former Dutch international cricketer whose career for the Dutch national side spanned from 1998 to 2013. She served as the team's captain in One Day International (ODI) matches from 2007 to 2011, and during that period also captained the Netherlands in its inaugural Test and Twenty20 International games.

Born in The Hague, Rambaldo's older sister, Caroline Rambaldo, also played international cricket for the Netherlands. Both sisters played their club cricket for Quick Haag (). Helmien Rambaldo made her ODI debut in July 1998, aged only 17, scoring two runs against Denmark in what was the first ODI to be played in Germany (at the Mikkelberg-Kunst-und-Cricket Center). Slotting into the side as a top-order batsman, her next matches in that format came at the 1999 European Championship in Denmark. Her performance there was unremarkable, with only 16 runs from three innings, but she maintained her place in the Dutch squad for its next major tournament, the 2000 World Cup in New Zealand. At the World Cup, Rambaldo was selected for only three of a possible seven matches, but topscored with 38 against Sri Lanka, opening the batting with Maartje Köster.

When the Netherlands toured Pakistan in April 2001, Rambaldo featured in six of their seven ODIs against the Pakistani national team, and finished the tournament behind only Pauline te Beest and Carolien Salomons for runs scored. In the sixth game, as the ninth player brought on to bowl, she finished 2/13 from five overs – her first ODI wickets and what were to be her best bowling figures. In 2003, Rambaldo moved to South Africa to study sport science at Western Cape's Stellenbosch University. She continued to play for the Netherlands throughout her degree, but also played cricket for her university and for Boland in the South African provincial set-up, until graduating in 2006.