The 9th edition of the Womenโs version of the Big Bash League is set to commence on 19th October 2023. All the teams have started to announce the player contract signings for the upcoming season.
The 22-year-old all-rounder Rachel Trenaman has re-signed her contract with the Hobart Hurricanes and is all set to play for the team in purple, at least for the next couple of seasons. She joins her teammates Maisy Gibson, Heather Graham, Ruth Johnston, Hayley Silver-Homes, Amy Smith, Molly Strano, and Elyse Villani who were retained earlier by the Hobart Hurricanes ahead of the 9th edition of the WBBL.
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The 22-year-old batter stays back with the 'Canes for another 2 seasons! ๐#CricketTwitter #WBBL pic.twitter.com/Vffqtt27oE
— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) August 3, 2023
โI would just always play it for fun and would take opportunities and would take opportunities and see it as another experience. Then when I started seeing I was getting selected for a few things, and watching others, and saw what was possible. Thatโs what sparked it for me,โ Rachel Trenaman about her realization that a sport like cricket could be her career. She was picked up by Sydney Thunder as a young prodigy at the tender age of just 15 years.
She made her WBBL debut for the Sydney Thunder in the year 2018. She picked up 3 wickets in the four innings with the ball in her debut season in the WBBL. She moved to the Hobart Hurricanes ahead of the seventh edition of the Womenโs Big Bash in the year 2021. She made her debut for the Hobart Hurricanes last season. She scored 131 runs at a strike rate of 89.72 in the 11 innings with the bat for the Hurricanes. They managed to reach the eliminator stage after having finished at number four in the points table after the end of the league stages last season.
Rachel Trenaman shifted her base to Tasmania and signed a contract with the Tasmanian Tigers ahead of the 2022-23 season she had a great start to her career with Tasmania scoring 123 runs in five innings before an injury ruled her out of the entire season. โThereโs no doubt that Rach is a really important part of both our programs across the Hurricanes and the Tigers.โ head coach Jude Coleman on the importance of having someone like her with the team.
โItโs looking like weโll have a pretty similar list again this year, and as a team, we probably didnโt perform as well as we knew we could last season, despite making finals, so I think if we can build on what we started last year, thereโs no reason we canโt go that step further this season.โ The 22-year-old all-rounder Rachel Trenaman on building on the momentum from last season and trying to go one step further this season.
(Quotes sourced from Hobart Hurricanes Press Release)