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Danni Wyatt-Hodge joins Surrey for brand new ladies’s skilled period

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Danni Wyatt-Hodge will play for Surrey within the new Ladies’s Tier 1 county competitors subsequent season, after transferring her allegiance from Hampshire-based Southern Vipers.

Wyatt-Hodge, 33, is at the moment in motion for Hobart Hurricanes within the Ladies’s Huge Bash League, having not too long ago featured in England’s T20 World Cup marketing campaign within the UAE.

Final summer time, she represented Southern Vipers within the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe-Flint Trophy, in addition to Southern Courageous, who’re additionally based mostly in Southampton.

Nevertheless, she has chosen to make the transfer to Surrey for the 2025 season, the place she is going to hyperlink up with England top-order team-mates Sophia Dunkley and Alice Capsey.

“I’m each excited and honoured to be becoming a member of Surrey,” Wyatt-Hodge mentioned. “The membership has an unbelievable historical past with a tradition of success, which I need to contribute to.

“I like taking part in on the Kia Oval and may’t wait to entertain the Surrey supporters. The South East Stars’ optimistic model of cricket was an necessary think about me becoming a member of the membership and I am wanting ahead to getting began!”

Wyatt-Hodge has performed 278 England matches since her debut in 2010, on the age of 19, scoring over 5,000 runs throughout the three codecs. She’s England’s all-time main run-scorer in ladies’s T20Is with 2,979 runs from 164 matches, at a strike-rate of 127.85.

She made her county debut for Staffordshire on the age of 14, however has been based mostly on the Utilita Bowl since 2020. She can be attributable to play for Royal Challengers Bengaluru on this 12 months’s WPL, after making the transfer from UP Warriorz.

“We’re extremely excited that Danni Wyatt-Hodge has agreed to decide to Surrey for the 2025 season,” Emma Calvert, Surrey’s Director of Ladies’s Cricket, mentioned. “Danni’s profession speaks for itself, and we consider she is going to add power and depth on the sphere in addition to including to the group off the sphere.

“After chatting to Danni it was clear to see that she might be an unbelievable match for our new group. They model of cricket she performs is strictly how we need to go about our enterprise, and I’m excited to see what she achieves sporting the Three Feathers”.
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