Wyatt-Hodge is a right-handed opening/middle order batter and off break bowler. She played for Staffordshire Ladies and Meir Heath Women in the Northern Premier League,having moved from Gunnersbury at the end of the 2012 season,as well as men's club cricket for her local club Whitmore.
In 2010,she was awarded an MCC Young Cricketers contract which enables her cricketing development via training at the MCC on a daily basis. She is the holder of one of the first tranche of 18 ECB central contracts for women players,which were announced in April 2014.[3]
In March 2018,during the 2018 Women's T20I Tri Nations Series in India;in a match against India,she scored her 2nd WT20Icentury in her career as her knock of 124 runs powered England to register the highest ever successful chase by any team in a WT20I match (199/3).[8][9][10][11] With this century,she became the second female cricketer to score 2 centuries in WT20Is after Deandra Dottin and also registered the second highest individual score in a WT20I just behind Meg Lanning's 126.[12][13][14] Her innings of 124 runs is also the highest individual score set by an opener in a WT20I match and she also recorded the second fastest century by a player in a WT20I innings (52 balls) just after Deandra Dottin's 38-ball century.[15][16]
On 18 June 2020,Wyatt was named in a squad of 24 players to begin training ahead of international women's fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic.[28][29]
In June 2023,Wyatt was again named in an England Test squad for the 2023 Women's Ashes series against Australia.[36] She made her Test debut in that match,on 22 June 2023.[37]
On 30 October 2024,she was traded to Royal Challengers Bangalore from UP Warriorz to play for 2025 season WPL.[39][40] She was picked up by the Warriorz for INR 30 lakhs at WPL 2024 auction but didn't feature for the UP franchise.[41]
Wyatt-Hodge was named in England's squad for their multi-format tour to South Africa in November 2024.[42][43]
She joined the newly professional Surrey Women's team ahead of the restructured domestic set-up for the 2025 season.[44][45]
Wyatt's nickname is "Waggy". In 2015,she explained to sports journalist Clare Balding that "The girls say I’m a wannabe WAG because I’ve dated two footballers!"[52] She has supported Port Vale F.C. since she started attending matches at Vale Park with her grandfather at the age of eight.[53] On 10 June 2024,Wyatt married Georgie Hodge,a football agent,at the Chelsea Old Town Hall in London.[54][55] They had been dating since 2019 and became engaged in early 2023 in South Africa.[56]
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