{"id":779220,"date":"2026-09-22T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779220\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T20:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:08:17","slug":"alexa-stonehouse-warwickshire-bears-sign-surrey-bowler-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779220\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa Stonehouse: Warwickshire Bears sign Surrey bowler on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwickshire Bears Women have signed left-arm bowler Alexa Stonehouse on a two-year deal from Surrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old has spent the 2026 season on loan at the Bears, taking 16 wickets in 17 appearances across all formats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before joining Warwickshire, she had helped Surrey win the Vitality Blast title last season and played for England at the 2023 Under-19 T20 World Cup, taking six wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwickshire Bears Women&#8217;s head coach, Ali Maiden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgbaston.com\/warwickshire-ccc\/media-article\/stonehouse-makes-permanent-switch-to-warwickshire\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club&#8217;s website, external<\/a>: &#8220;The signing of Alexa, who has been a regular feature in England A teams and squads, is another example of us working to recruit the next generation of England cricketers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warwickshire Bears Women have signed left-arm bowler Alexa Stonehouse on a two-year deal from Surrey. The 21-year-old has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}