Player Profile

All-rounder Fi Morris arrived at Thunder from Western Storm ahead of 2023, and she ended her first summer at Emirates Old Trafford as the region’s overall Player of the Year and their T20 Player of the Year as well.

It was oh so nearly the perfect campaign given Thunder made the Charlotte Edwards Cup Finals Day - their first as a region - and fell two steps short of glory in a semi-final defeat.

There is absolutely no doubt that Morris, 30, would swap the two personal honours for team silverware in 2024.

In 23 appearances for Thunder in 2023, in all cricket, she hit 396 runs with one fifty and took 19 wickets with a best of 3-33. That haul included 209 runs and seven wickets in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, resulting in that aforementioned personal T20 honour.

Morris knows exactly what it takes to win having had plenty of experience of challenging and winning trophies throughout an impressive and storied senior career which started back in 2008.

An off-spinning all-rounder, Morris has often been the leading wicket-taker and leading run-scorer for the various sides she has represented, starting with Oxfordshire.

She has taken almost 250 wickets and scored nearly 3,000 runs in women’s List A and T20 cricket, also playing for counties such as Gloucestershire and Hampshire and other teams Southern Vipers, Storm, Southern Brave, Welsh Fire and Manchester Originals.

It was in the Hundred for the Originals in 2023 that she claimed her career best haul of 5-7 in a home win over Birmingham Phoenix in August. She described that as her best ever day on a cricket field.

Morris won the County Championship title with Hampshire in 2018, her first year with the South Coast side, and she played in the finals of Kia Super League with the Vipers the following summer and also the Hundred with Southern Brave in 2021.

While that Originals five-for is her best haul with the ball, her career best with the bat came when she opened the batting for Gloucestershire and led them to a Championship victory over Oxfordshire with an equally superb 127 in August 2011.

With the bat, she is at her best when she attacks and is particularly adept at playing against spin.

Fritha Mary Kie Morris was born in Reading and has represented various England development and Academy teams. She toured South Africa with the Under 19s in October 2013.

She graduated from Exeter University in 2015 with a degree in Exercise and Sports Science, and outside of the game has worked as a sports therapist.

Shortly before representing the Brave in the 2021 inaugural Hundred final, she spoke about a long-term battle with depression, with her mental health issues dating back to an assault she suffered whilst at University. Morris admitted that seeking counselling through the Professional Cricketers’ Trust “saved my life”.

"The way that I feel about myself now and the way that I view myself is totally different to how it used to be - and it's definitely saved, and changed, my life,” she said.

"There was such a long time when I was just in denial about how I felt, 'I'm not depressed, I don't have depression'. As soon as I admitted it was something that I struggled with, it all became a bit easier.”

Thankfully, now, Morris is loving life, with her move to Emirates Old Trafford a huge part of that.

She spent time in Australia in early 2024, alongside Ellie Threlkeld, and warmed up for the summer by training with the New South Wales Breakers team. Morris also played grade cricket for Gordon CC.