The batting allrounder, who has represented her nation 62 instances in restricted overs internationals, turns into Surrey’s first abroad participant, and the primary outright within the new skilled period of girls’s county cricket in England and Wales.
The 2025 summer time would be the first time all males’s and girls’s counties will play alongside each other within the Vitality Blast. Harris’ first match shall be Surrey Girls’s opener towards Hampshire Hawks on the Kia Oval on June 5, as a part of the double-header alongside the equal males’s fixture.
Harris is famend for her big-hitting and wily off spin, skillsets which have made her a staple throughout numerous franchise tournaments. In addition to that includes prominently for her residence facet Brisbane Warmth within the ladies’s Massive Bash, the Queenslander lately ended the WPL as UP Warriorz’ joint-highest runscorer, and is a part of London Spirit in The Hundred. She additionally featured within the three T20Is that made up the winter’s ladies’s Ashes, serving to Australia consign England to a 16-0 defeat.
“I am unable to wait to take to the pitch with the workforce at Surrey and the Kia Oval,” mentioned Harris, in a press release launched on Wednesday. “The membership has proven a robust dedication to the ladies’s facet and I do know the workforce have been making ready laborious over the winter. I am actually trying ahead to contributing to the workforce and benefiting from my time with them.”
Emma Calvert, Surrey’s Director of Girls’s Cricket, added: “We’re extremely excited to have the ability to announce Grace as our first abroad signing for our newly skilled Surrey ladies’s workforce.
“Grace brings worldwide and franchise expertise which we imagine will actually add worth to our squad each on and off the pitch. She performs precisely the fashion of cricket we glance to play and I am unable to wait to see her carrying the three feathers on the Kia Oval this summer time.”
Surrey will play within the prime league of the ladies’s Vitality Blast, together with the seven different Tier One counties. The eight sides will play one another residence and away throughout 14 group-stage matches, with the highest three securing a spot at Finals Day, which is able to happen on the Kia Oval on July 27.
