Finty May Trussler was born on 8th May 2003 and is a right handed batter and right arm leg spin bowler.
Trussler made her senior debut for Hampshire in 2021, having played age group county cricket since 2013.
She took 3-20 in just her second senior game, against Middlesex where she dismissed Lucy Porter, Sonali Patel and Amara Carr, all for single figures.
Aged 17, Trussler took career-best T20 figures of 4-12 against Sussex in Brighton on 3rd May 2021, where she removed Mary Taylor, Millie Taylor, Chiara Green, and Cassidy McCarthy, as Sussex were bowled out for just 67 in pursuit of 115.
In the second game of the day, Trussler took a further three wickets to end up with figures of 7-25 across both matches.
She took a further 6-31 in back-to-back T20s against Surrey on 9th May at Totton & Eling CC, as she finished with 13 wickets at an average of 6.46 across the six matches.
In her first game of the 2022 season, Trussler recorded her career-best T20 score of 29* against a strong Kent side, and took 1-17 as Surrey were kept to 79-9 in 20 overs in her second game of the 2022 Women’s T20 County Championship.
Trussler was included in the Southern Vipers squad ahead of the 2022 Charlotte Edwards Cup but didn’t play, and first featured in the 14-player squad that travelled to Derby to play Lightning on 16th July 2022.
She made her debut for Oxfordshire in the new South Central Counties Cup at Canford School in Dorset – she scored 18 runs and took two wickets in her opening game, and took 1-11 against Berkshire in her next.
Trussler then made her senior debut for the Vipers against Northern Diamonds in the final group stage match of the 2022 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.
She took two wickets, and followed it up with a further two wickets against South East Stars in the eliminator to complete best Vipers figures of 2-12 in 6.2 overs.
In 2023, Trussler took 10 wickets for Hampshire in the Women’s County T20 competition, the joint third most in the country, at an average of just 8.70 with a best of 3-2 against Buckinghamshire in a 116-run victory in the group semi-final.
She played twice for the Second XI, scoring 36 runs but not taking a wicket, and played eight friendlies for the Vipers, taking nine wickets.
Finty Trussler in Numbers:
- Matches: 2
- Wickets: 2
- Bowling Average: 17.00
- Best Bowling: 2-12 (v South East Stars, RHFT, 2022)
- Economy: 4.16
