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Davina Perrin
Personal information
Full name	Davina Sarah T Perrin
Born	8 September 2006 (age 18); Wolverhampton, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
Role	Batter
Domestic team information
2021–present	Staffordshire
2021–2024	Central Sparks
2022–2023	Birmingham Phoenix
2024–present	Northern Superchargers
Career statistics
	Source: CricketArchive, 16 October 2024

Davina Sarah T Perrin (born 8 September 2006) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Staffordshire and Northern Superchargers. She plays as a right-handed batter.^[1]^[2]

Early life and education

Perrin was born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.^[1] Her father, David, played minor county cricket for Staffordshire; her own cricket club is Fordhouses in Wolverhampton.^[3] In 2024, she graduated with a sport BTEC for which she had studied at Edgbaston.^[3]

Domestic career

Perrin made her county debut in 2021, for Staffordshire against Worcestershire.^[4] In the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, she was the fourth-highest run-scorer across the entire competition, with 242 runs at an average of 34.57.^[5] She made 87 from 75 deliveries in Staffordshire's victory over Berkshire.^[6]

Perrin was selected for the Central Sparks Academy in 2021, and scored a century during an intra-squad multi-day game in September.^[7]^[8] Later that month, Perrin was added to the full Central Sparks squad, and made her debut for the side on 10 September, in a Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy match against Sunrisers.^[9] She played four matches overall for the side that season, scoring 92 runs including a best of 43 made against South East Stars.^[10]^[11]

In 2022, Perrin scored 137 runs at an average of 27.40 in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as playing six matches in the Charlotte Edwards Cup.^[12]^[13] In a Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy match against Sunrisers, Perrin scored 45 opening the batting and took 3/26 from her 5 overs.^[14] She also signed for Birmingham Phoenix in the 2022 season of The Hundred, becoming the youngest player in the competition at 15 years old.^[3]^[15] However, she did not play a match for the side.^[3]^[16]

At the end of the 2022 season, it was announced that Perrin had signed her first professional contract with Central Sparks.^[17] By entering into that contract, she became only the third Black female professional cricketer in the UK;^[3] "When I step on to that pitch, I'm representing girls of ethnic minorities who are underrepresented across the game, particularly the professional game," she later told The Guardian.^[3] She has also been involved with Ebony Rainford-Brent's ACE (African Caribbean Engagement) programme.^[3]

In 2023, Perrin played 15 matches for Central Sparks, across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup.^[18]^[19] She was again in the Birmingham Phoenix squad for The Hundred, but did not play a match.^[20]^[21] In 2024, she played 23 matches for Central Sparks, across the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup, scoring three half-centuries.^[22]^[23]

International career

In October 2022, Perrin was selected in the England Under-19 squad for the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup.^[24] She played four matches in the tournament, scoring 36 runs and taking two wickets.^[25] As of 2024^[update], she had ambitions to play for the England senior team.^[3]