Hannah Darlington

Hannah Joy Darlington (born 25 January 2002) is an Australian cricketer who plays as a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler for the Sydney Thunder in the Women's Big Bash League and the New South Wales Breakers in the Women's National Cricket League. She was the first graduate of the Thunder WBBL Academy.
Darlington got her start in cricket at school when she accidentally hit a teacher in the head with a ball, and was given a choice of detention or to join the cricket team.
Darlington has indigenous heritage and identifies as a member of the Kamilaroi people. In 2018, she was selected as the captain for the first female Indigenous Sydney Thunder team, and was also selected for an Indigenous team to tour England, as a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the 1868 Aboriginal tour of England. She was educated at selective sports school Westfields Sports High.
In February 2021, Darlington was named in Australia's limited overs squad for their series against New Zealand. On 26 February 2021, she became the youngest ever captain in NSW's 165-year history of cricket teams, when, at 19 years and 31 days, she stood in for regular Breakers captain Alyssa Healy in a WNCL match against Tasmania, which ended in a tie.