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| Full name | Ria Ashleigh Fackrell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 September 1999 Coventry, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–present | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | →Shropshire (on loan) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Lancashire Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Lightning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2024 | Central Sparks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Birmingham Phoenix | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ria Ashleigh Fackrell (born 16 September 1999) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Warwickshire. She plays as a right-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler. She has previously played for Shropshire,Lancashire Thunder,Lightning,Central Sparks and Birmingham Phoenix. [1] [2]
Fackrell joined the Warwickshire academy set-up when she was 10 years old,but made her county debut for Shropshire,in 2017 against Hertfordshire,in which she scored 14 and took 1/14 from 6 overs. [3] [4] Fackrell played the first half of the 2017 season for Shropshire,before returning to Warwickshire. [5] [6] The following season,she hit 163 runs at an average of 20.37 in the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup. [7] In 2019,Fackrell hit her maiden county half-century,scoring 65* in a County Championship match against Lancashire,as well as helping her side to the title in the Twenty20 Cup. [8] [6] She played eight matches for Warwickshire in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup,scoring 63 runs. [9]
Fackrell also played for Lancashire Thunder in the Women's Cricket Super League in 2019. She played three matches,scoring 10 runs and taking 1 catch. [2]
In 2020,Fackrell played for Lightning in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She appeared in one match,against Northern Diamonds,and scored 8 runs. [10] [11]
In 2021,it was announced that Fackrell had moved from Lightning to Central Sparks for the upcoming season. [12] She was used primarily as a bowler by her new side,and achieved her best bowling figures in both List A and Twenty20 cricket that season,taking 4/34 in a Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy match against Western Storm and 2/27 in a Charlotte Edwards Cup match against Lightning. [13] [14] Overall in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,Fackrell took 11 wickets at an average of 24.09,whilst also top-scoring with 42* in the play-off against Northern Diamonds. [15] [16] She was also in the Birmingham Phoenix squad for The Hundred,but did not play a match. [17] She played four matches for Central Sparks in 2022,all in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. [18] She also played one match for Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred,taking 1/19. [19]
In 2023,she played two matches for Central Sparks,both in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy,scoring 22 runs and taking one wicket. [20] [21] In 2024,she played 10 matches for Central Sparks,across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup,taking 12 wickets. [22] [23]