2019–20 Hobart Hurricanes WBBL season

Each 2019–20 squad featured 15 active players, with an allowance of up to five marquee signings including a maximum of three from overseas. Australian marquees are players who held a national women's team contract at the beginning of the WBBL|05 signing period.[1]

Personnel changes made ahead of the season included:

• Nicola Carey signed with the Hurricanes, departing the Sydney Thunder and becoming the team's first Australian marquee player since the retirement of Julie Hunter in 2016–17.[2]
• Maisy Gibson and Belinda Vakarewa signed with the Hurricanes, also departing the Sydney Thunder.[3][4]
• Tayla Vlaeminck signed with the Hurricanes, departing the Melbourne Renegades.[5]
• Corinne Hall returned to the Hurricanes captaincy role, taking over from Sasha Moloney.[6]
• English marquee Fran Wilson and South African marquee Chloe Tryon signed with the Hurricanes.[7]
• Barbadian marquee Hayley Matthews signed as a replacement player for English marquee Heather Knight in the event of the Hurricanes qualifying for finals,[8][9] but such a scenario did not eventuate.[10]
• In what was effectively a straight swap with the Perth Scorchers, wicket-keeper Emily Smith joined the Hurricanes in place of the departing Georgia Redmayne.[9]
• On 18 November 2019, Smith was banned for the remainder of WBBL|05 after contravening Cricket Australia's anti-corruption policy with a social media post. Under a special exemption, Emma Manix-Geeves was brought into the Hurricanes squad as a replacement.[11]

The table below lists the Hurricanes players and their key stats (including runs scored, batting strike rate, wickets taken, economy rate, catches and stumpings) for the season.[10][12][13]

No.	Name	Nat.	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	G	R	SR	W	E	C	S	Notes
Batters
7	Stefanie Daffara		13 June 1995	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	4	14	53.84	–	–	1	–
3	Erin Fazackerley		3 July 1998	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	13	243	123.97	1	8.00	9	–
27	Corinne Hall		12 October 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin	13	237	119.69	–	–	2	–	Captain
5	Heather Knight		26 December 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin	13	282	102.54	6	6.75	5	–	Overseas marquee
99	Sasha Moloney		14 July 1992	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin	4	23	100.00	–	–	1	–
25	Chloe Tryon		25 January 1994	Right-handed	Left-arm medium	13	248	178.41	1	7.71	5	–	Overseas marquee
35	Fran Wilson		7 November 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin	13	210	96.33	–	–	3	–	Overseas marquee
All-rounders
16	Nicola Carey		10 September 1993	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	13	267	96.04	13	7.60	3	–	Australian marquee
50	Hayley Matthews		19 March 1998	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Overseas marquee (replacement)
Wicket-keepers
21	Emma Manix-Geeves		12 August 2000	Right-handed	–	5	–	–	–	–	1	1	Replacement player
33	Emily Smith		19 January 1995	Right-handed	–	8	17	94.44	–	–	1	2
Bowlers
13	Maisy Gibson		14 September 1996	Left-handed	Right-arm leg spin	13	57	91.93	14	7.37	4	–
12	Brooke Hepburn		4 October 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
10	Meg Phillips		2 February 1996	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	5	38	66.66	2	7.16	0	–
47	Belinda Vakarewa		22 January 1998	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium	13	3	100.00	20	6.09	8	–
30	Tayla Vlaeminck		27 October 1998	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	13	23	121.05	10	6.60	1	–

•   The four top ranked teams qualified for the semi-finals

All times are local time

• Most runs: Heather Knight – 282 (20th in the league)[19]
• Highest score in an innings: Heather Knight – 77 (49) vs Sydney Thunder, 3 November[20]
• Most wickets: Belinda Vakarewa – 20 (3rd in the league)[21]
• Best bowling figures in an innings: Belinda Vakarewa – 4/19 (4 overs) vs Sydney Sixers, 20 November[22]
• Most catches (fielder): Erin Fazackerley – 9 (3rd in the league)[23]
• Player of the Match awards:
  • Belinda Vakarewa – 2
  • Nicola Carey, Erin Fazackerley – 1 each
• Hurricanes Player of the Tournament: Belinda Vakarewa[24]
• WBBL|05 Team of the Tournament: Belinda Vakarewa[25]
• WBBL|05 Young Gun Award: Tayla Vlaeminck (nominated)[26]