Seam bowler Hannah Hardwick has signed for Hampshire following a profitable trial interval with the membership.
The 21-year-old featured for Warwickshire and Worcestershire in Tier One and Two, respectively, in 2025. She picked up two wickets for the Bears within the Vitality Blast, together with eight wickets for the Pears within the Girls’s Metro Financial institution One Day Cup League Two.
Hannah Hardwick stated: “I’m actually happy to signal with Hampshire, it’s been a enjoyable setting to be part of while I’ve been trialling.
“The set-up at Utilita Bowl has been extremely profitable for a variety of years, and hopefully I might help convey some silverware to the south coast this summer season.”
Tenacious
Initially from Stourbridge within the West Midlands, Hardwick got here via the Worcestershire pathway and made her T20 debut for the county in 2022, aged 17.
She earned a spot on the Central Sparks regional academy in 2021 and made her debut within the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, the predecessor to the Metro Financial institution Girls’s One Day Cup, towards Western Storm in 2024.
Adam Carty, Regional Director of Girls’s Cricket, stated: “Following a pre-Christmas trial interval on the membership, the senior assist team had been unanimous of their assist of providing Hannah a contract for the 2026 season.
“She proved to be each tenacious and extremely disciplined in her pursuit to develop her expertise and evolve as a cricketer.
“She bowls with pure tempo and has demonstrated a humility and a progress mindset that, in flip, ought to see her have a constructive impression on the group and on matches.
“Though her major talent is seam bowling, Hannah additionally possesses the flexibility to hit a really lengthy ball, which too has caught the attention within the brief time she’s been with us.”
Throughout the 2023 version of The Hundred, Hardwick was signed by Trent Rockets to exchange the injured Grace Potts.
Followers can watch Hannah Hardwick in Hampshire colors with a Girls’s Season Ticket. Girls’s Season Tickets can be found on the Early Chicken fee of £99, providing a £20 saving (£119 full worth). This provide ends thirty first January 2026.
For extra data and to purchase Girls’s Season Tickets, please go to www.utilitabowl.com/tickets.
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