| Jo Gardner | |
| Female: | true |
| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Joanne Lynda Gardner |
| Birth Date: | 25 March 1997 |
| Birth Place: | Newport, Isle of Wight, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm off break |
| Role: | All-rounder |
| Club1: | Northamptonshire |
| Year1: | 2010–2016 |
| Club2: | Warwickshire |
| Year2: | 2017–2022 |
| Club3: | → Essex (on loan) |
| Year3: | 2021 |
| Club4: | Loughborough Lightning |
| Year4: | 2018–2019 |
| Club5: | Sunrisers |
| Year5: | 2020–2024 |
| Club6: | Oval Invincibles |
| Year6: | 2021 |
| Club7: | Southern Brave |
| Year7: | 2022 |
| Club8: | Northamptonshire |
| Year8: | 2023–present |
| Club9: | Trent Rockets |
| Year9: | 2023 |
| Club10: | Oval Invincibles |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | WLA |
| Matches1: | 97 |
| Runs1: | 1,332 |
| Bat Avg1: | 19.58 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/6 |
| Top Score1: | 86 |
| Deliveries1: | 2,223 |
| Wickets1: | 70 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 21.87 |
| Fivefor1: | 3 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 6/21 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 29/– |
| Column2: | WT20 |
| Matches2: | 116 |
| Runs2: | 1,145 |
| Bat Avg2: | 18.17 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/3 |
| Top Score2: | 79 |
| Deliveries2: | 1,076 |
| Wickets2: | 36 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 28.58 |
| Fivefor2: | 0 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 3/25 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 36/– |
| Date: | 19 October |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/496/496766/496766.html CricketArchive |
Joanne Lynda Gardner (born 25 March 1997) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Northamptonshire and Oval Invincibles. She plays as an all-rounder, bowling right-arm off break and batting right-handed. She has previously played for Warwickshire, Essex, Loughborough Lightning, Sunrisers, Southern Brave and Trent Rockets.[1] [2]
Gardner was born on 25 March 1997 in Newport, Isle of Wight.[2] She attended Loughborough University.[3]
Gardner made her county debut in 2011, for Northamptonshire against Derbyshire. She scored 2 runs and bowled 7 overs without taking a wicket.[4] 2013 was a breakthrough year for Gardner, as she took 15 Championship wickets at an average of 14.26, as well as taking her maiden five-for, with 6/21 against Oxfordshire.[5] [6] In 2014, she was the leading wicket-taker across the whole Championship, taking 19 wickets at an average of 9.47.[7] She took 5/23 against both Scotland and Hampshire.[8] [9] She hit her maiden county half-century in 2015, against Leicestershire, and went on to hit three more in 2016, and was the leading run-scorer for her side in both competitions.[10] [11] [12]
In 2017, Gardner joined Warwickshire.[3] She hit 54 in her first match for her new side, in a 2 wicket victory over Kent.[13] Gardner was part of the Warwickshire team that won the 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup.[14]
In 2021, after playing in the Twenty20 Cup for Warwickshire, Gardner went on loan to Essex for the Women's London Championship in order to play 50-over cricket.[15] She re-joined former side Northamptonshire ahead of the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup.[16] She took six wickets in eight matches for the side that season.[17]
Gardner was also part of Loughborough Lightning's squad in the Women's Cricket Super League in 2018 and 2019. She played one match in 2018, but did not bat or bowl.[14] She played three matches in 2019, including the semi-final, and took two wickets.[18]
In 2020, Gardner played for Sunrisers in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She appeared in all 6 matches, and was her side's leading run-scorer and joint leading wicket-taker, with 193 runs and 7 wickets. She scored one half-century, 54, in a losing cause against Western Storm.[19] [20] [21] In December 2020, it was announced that Gardner was one of the 41 female cricketers that had signed a full-time domestic contract.[22] Gardner played 11 matches for the side in 2021, across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup, taking two wickets and with a top score of 42, made off 30 balls against Northern Diamonds.[23] [24] [25] She also played nine matches in Oval Invincibles' victorious campaign in The Hundred.[26] Ahead of the 2022 season, Gardner remodelled her bowling action, becoming an off break bowler, having previously bowled medium pace.[27] She played eleven matches for Sunrisers in 2022, across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, scoring 193 runs and taking eleven wickets.[28] [29] She moved to Southern Brave in The Hundred, but did not a play a match for her new side.[30]
In 2023, she played 15 matches for Sunrisers, across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup, with a top score of 37.[31] [32] She also played seven matches for Trent Rockets in The Hundred, scoring 57 runs.[33] In 2024, she played 26 matches for Sunrisers, across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup, scoring two half-centuries.[34] [35]
In October 2024, she signed for Essex Women ahead of the 2025 women's domestic cricket restructure.[36] [37]