Fynn Jake Hudson-Prentice (born 12 January 1996) is an English

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er who plays for

Sussex County Cricket Club Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The c ...

. He is a right-handed

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who bowls right-arm

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. He previously played for

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

and

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

. He made his

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debut for Sussex against

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in the

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, on 20 August 2014. On 24 October 2014, Hudson-Prentice signed his first professional contract with Sussex, after graduating from the club's academy; he had played for Sussex since the age of 10. After two seasons as a professional, Hudson-Prentice was released by Sussex in November 2016. Since then Hudson-Prentice has been part of the MCC young cricketers, where he met former Derbyshire Assistant Coach Steve Kirby. He represented Derbyshire on a six-week trial period before signing a three-year contract for them on 12 June 2019. He made his T20 debut on 20 July 2019, for Derbyshire against

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, in the

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. During this campaign he played every match, as Derbyshire went on to reach their first ever T20 Finals Day, losing in the semi-final to eventual winners,

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

. On 11 July 2021 Hudson-Prentice announced he would sign for Sussex again at the end of the season after a two-year spell at Derbyshire. On 16 August he joined the club on loan for the remainder of the season, playing in three

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matches before breaking his hand against

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. His Sussex return was hit by a further setback a few months later, picking up a stress fracture to the back, ruling him out for the majority of the 2022 campaign. He was educated at

St Bede's School, Sussex Bede's School consists of a preparatory school and pre-preparatory nursery in Holywell, Meads, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, as well as a senior school based in Upper Dicker, Hailsham, East Sussex, England. These, along with the Legat Sch ...

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* 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Haywards Heath English cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Sussex cricketers Cricketers from West Sussex {{England-cricket-bio-1990s-stub