Danni Wyatt


Danielle Nicole Wyatt, is an English international cricketer and plays for the England women's team. She made her debut for the England women's team against Indian women's team in Mumbai on 1 March 2010.

Early career

Wyatt is a right-handed middle order batter and off break bowler. Wyatt 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.

International career

Wyatt was a member of the winning women's team at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup held in England.
In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.
|alt=Wyatt batting for England during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
In March 2018, during the 2018 Women's T20I Tri Nations Series in India; in a match against India, she scored her 2nd T20I century 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. 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. 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 just after Deandra Dottin's 38 balls century.
In October 2018, she was named in England's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.
In November 2018, she was named in the Melbourne Renegades' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board for 2019. In June 2019, the ECB named her in England's squad for their opening match against Australia to contest the Women's Ashes.
In December 2019, in England's opening match against Pakistan in Malaysia, Wyatt scored her first century in a WODI match. During the same tour, she also played her 100th WT20I match against Pakistan. In January 2020, she was named in England's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.
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.

Personal life

Wyatt's nickname is "Waggy". In 2015, she explained to sports journalist Clare Balding that "The girls say I’m a wannabee WAG because I’ve dated two footballers!"