Alex Hartley (cricketer)
Alexandra Hartley is an English cricketer. Hartley plays for Middlesex Women cricket team as well as Lancashire Women cricket team. She is a right-hand batsman as well as a left arm orthodox bowler. She also co-hosts a podcast called No Balls with England teammate Kate Cross.
She made her ODI debut against Pakistan women cricket team at County Ground, Taunton in June 2016.
Hartley 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 ODI Team of the Year. In February 2019, she was awarded a full central contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board for 2019. She lost that contract in October 2019, but in June 2020 became one of the first 25 English women cricketers to be retained under a regional retainer contract.
She co-hosts a cricketing podcast with teammate Kate Cross. The podcast is done on a weekly basis and includes various segments. She has shown distaste and an annoyance toward Tim Bresnan. She has shown hatred toward him and the Yorkshire Podcast as they top them in the charts regularly, are from Yorkshire and people have said that listening to the Yorkshire Podcast has made people run quicker. Some of the various segments in the podcast are trough and peak of the week, LBW and general cricketing chat.
