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| Full name | Joanne Lynda Gardner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 March 1997 Newport, Isle of Wight, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2016 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2022 | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | →Essex (on loan) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Loughborough Lightning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2024 | Sunrisers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Oval Invincibles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Southern Brave | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023–present | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Trent Rockets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024–present | Oval Invincibles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,19 October 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joanne Lynda Gardner (born 25 March 1997) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Northamptonshire and Oval Invincibles. She plays as an all-rounder,bowling right-arm off break and batting right-handed. She has previously played for Warwickshire,Essex,Loughborough Lightning,Sunrisers,Southern Brave and Trent Rockets. [1] [2]
Gardner was born on 25 March 1997 in Newport,Isle of Wight. [2] She attended Loughborough University. [3]
Gardner made her county debut in 2011,for Northamptonshire against Derbyshire. She scored 2 runs and bowled 7 overs without taking a wicket. [4] 2013 was a breakthrough year for Gardner,as she took 15 Championship wickets at an average of 14.26,as well as taking her maiden five-for,with 6/21 against Oxfordshire. [5] [6] In 2014,she was the leading wicket-taker across the whole Championship,taking 19 wickets at an average of 9.47. [7] She took 5/23 against both Scotland and Hampshire. [8] [9] She hit her maiden county half-century in 2015,against Leicestershire,and went on to hit three more in 2016,and was the leading run-scorer for her side in both competitions. [10] [11] [12]
In 2017,Gardner joined Warwickshire. [3] She hit 54* in her first match for her new side,in a 2 wicket victory over Kent. [13] Gardner was part of the Warwickshire team that won the 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup. [14]
In 2021,after playing in the Twenty20 Cup for Warwickshire,Gardner went on loan to Essex for the Women's London Championship in order to play 50-over cricket. [15] She re-joined former side Northamptonshire ahead of the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup. [16] She took six wickets in eight matches for the side that season. [17]
Gardner was also part of Loughborough Lightning's squad in the Women's Cricket Super League in 2018 and 2019. She played one match in 2018,but did not bat or bowl. [14] She played three matches in 2019,including the semi-final,and took two wickets. [18]
In 2020,Gardner played for Sunrisers in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She appeared in all 6 matches,and was her side's leading run-scorer and joint leading wicket-taker,with 193 runs and 7 wickets. She scored one half-century,54,in a losing cause against Western Storm. [19] [20] [21] In December 2020,it was announced that Gardner was one of the 41 female cricketers that had signed a full-time domestic contract. [22] Gardner played 11 matches for the side in 2021,across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup,taking two wickets and with a top score of 42,made off 30 balls against Northern Diamonds. [23] [24] [25] She also played nine matches in Oval Invincibles' victorious campaign in The Hundred. [26] Ahead of the 2022 season,Gardner remodelled her bowling action,becoming an off break bowler,having previously bowled medium pace. [27] She played eleven matches for Sunrisers in 2022,across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,scoring 193 runs and taking eleven wickets. [28] [29] She moved to Southern Brave in The Hundred,but did not a play a match for her new side. [30]
In 2023,she played 15 matches for Sunrisers,across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup,with a top score of 37*. [31] [32] She also played seven matches for Trent Rockets in The Hundred,scoring 57 runs. [33] In 2024,she played 26 matches for Sunrisers,across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup,scoring two half-centuries. [34] [35]
In October 2024,she signed for Essex Women ahead of the 2025 women's domestic cricket restructure. [36] [37]