Georgia May Hennessy (born 4 November 1996) is an English former

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er who played as an

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right-handed and

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. She played for

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

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Western Storm Western Storm are a women's cricket team representing South West England and Wales, one of eight regional hubs in English domestic cricket. They play their home matches at the County Ground, Taunton, the County Ground, Bristol and Sophia Gardens ...

and

Welsh Fire Welsh Fire ( cy, Tân Cymreig) are a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in the city of Cardiff. The team represents the Historic counties of England, historic counties of Glamorgan, Gloucestershire and Somerset in the newly founded competiti ...

Early life

Hennessy was born on 4 November 1996 in

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. She attends the

University of Worcester , motto_lang = la , mottoeng = ''Aspire to Inspire'' , established = 1946 – Worcester Emergency Teacher Training College 1948 – Worcester Teacher Training College 1976 – Worcester College of Higher Education 1997 – ...

and plays club cricket for Barnards Green, and was the first woman to hit a century in the

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Domestic career

Hennessy made her county debut in 2010 for

against

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. She scored a duck and did not bowl. She remained with Worcestershire until 2012, and in her final season with the club scored her maiden half-century, scoring 66 * against

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. Hennessy joined

ahead of the 2013 season. She started strongly for her new side in the

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, scoring 137 runs, the most for the team that season, including two half-centuries. The following season, she hit what was at the time her highest

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score, hitting 84 against Surrey, as well as taking her maiden five-wicket haul in the same match. In the

2015 Women's County Championship The 2015 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 19th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May to September and saw 34 county teams and teams representing Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Netherlands compete in a series of ...

, Hennessey was her side's leading run-scorer, with 200 runs at an average of 50.00, and took her second five-wicket haul, taking 5/44 against

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. Hennessy was also Warwickshire's leading run-scorer in two consecutive T20 Cups, in

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and

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. Hennessy joined

ahead of the 2018 season and made an immediate impression, ending the 2018 Championship season as the side's leading run-scorer, with 174 runs at an average of 34.80. She only played two

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matches that season, but still managed to hit 97 * in a match against

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. In 2019, Hennessy had a strong

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, topping both the run-scoring and wicket-taking charts for Devon, with 119 runs and 6 wickets. In 2020, Hennessy moved to

, but did not play for them that year due to the 2020 season's cancellation during the

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. She made her debut for her new side in the

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, scoring 61 and 78 and taking 5 wickets on the opening weekend double-header against

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. She ended the season as the second-highest run-scorer across the whole tournament, with 261 runs at an average of 52.20, as Somerset won the West Midlands Group. Hennessy joined

ahead of the 2022 season. She was the side's leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 170 runs including one half-century against

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, as well as taking three wickets. Hennessy also played for

in the

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in 2016 and 2017. She was ever-present in both seasons, scoring 45 runs and taking 3 wickets in

and scoring 110 runs in

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. In 2017, Storm won the Super League, and Hennessy put on a vital partnership of 44 with

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in the semi-final to help her side on the way to the title. In 2020, Hennessy returned to Western Storm for the

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. She played all 6 matches, scoring 209 runs at an average of 34.83, as well as taking 11 wickets, the joint-leading wicket-taker for the side. She hit her maiden List A century, scoring 105, against Sunrisers, as well as taking 4/31 against

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. In December 2020, it was announced that Hennessy was one of the 41 female cricketers that had signed a full-time domestic contract. In 2021, she was Western Storm's leading wicket-taker in the

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, with 9 wickets, although she struggled with the bat. She also took 2 wickets in the

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, as well as scoring 102 runs, including 62 made against Sunrisers. Meanwhile, for

in The Hundred, Hennessy scored 58 runs and took 2 wickets in 8 matches. In 2022, she was Western Storm's joint-leading run-scorer in the

, with 158 runs including a half-century against

. She also played two matches in the

. She was again in the Welsh Fire squad in The Hundred, but did not play a match. Hennessy played for

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in the 2012 Super Fours, and was part of various

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Development programmes, starting in 2012. At the end of the 2022 season, it was announced that Hennessy was stepping away from cricket to "pursue opportunities outside of the game".

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hennessy, Georgia 1996 births Living people Cricketers from Worcester, England Worcestershire women cricketers Warwickshire women cricketers Devon women cricketers Somerset women cricketers Wales women cricketers Western Storm cricketers Welsh Fire cricketers