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| Full name | Alexa Kate Stonehouse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 December 2004 Ashford, Kent, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | South East Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–present | Trent Rockets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 18 October 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alexa Kate Stonehouse (born 5 December 2004) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Kent, South East Stars and Trent Rockets. She plays as a left-arm medium bowler.[1][2]
Stonehouse was born on 5 December 2004 in Ashford, Kent.[2]
Stonehouse made her county debut in 2021, for Kent against Middlesex in the 2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup.[3] She played four matches that season as her side won the South East Group of the competition.[4] She took four wickets for Kent in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, including best bowling figures of 3/27.[5]
In 2021, Stonehouse was named in the South East Stars academy squad.[6] Later that year, in June, it was announced that Stonehouse had signed a contract with the senior team, and made her debut for the side a day later, in the opening match of the Charlotte Edwards Cup, against Lightning.[7][8] She went on to play five matches in the tournament, taking two wickets, as the South East Stars emerged victorious.[9] She played 13 matches for South East Stars in 2022, across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, taking seven wickets.[10][11] She was also in the Trent Rockets squad for The Hundred, but did not play a match.[12] She also played for England A against South Africa in June 2022.[13] At the end of the 2022 season, it was announced that Stonehouse had signed her first professional contract with South East Stars.[14]
In 2023, she played 14 matches for South East Stars, across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup, taking nine wickets and scoring one half-century.[15][16] She also played seven matches for Trent Rockets in The Hundred, taking 4 wickets.[17]
In October 2022, Stonehouse was selected in the England Under-19 squad for the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup.[18] She took six wickets in her five matches at the tournament, at an average of 11.33.[19]