Ali Orr is a left-handed batter and right-arm bowler.
He was born in Eastbourne, Sussex and joined the club on a multi-year deal from Sussex ahead of the 2024 season.
Orr signed his first professional contract with Sussex in April 2021, having been at the Martlets since the age of ten, and has since made 51 appearances across the formats.
In all formats, the left-hander accumulated 2,810 runs at an average of 39 for Sussex, including six centuries. His record in the one-day format is particularly notable, with 670 runs in 14 matches at an average of 47.85.
Orr’s debut came in June 2021 in the County Championship against Yorkshire, in which he scored 67. He recorded his maiden First Class century soon after against Kent, making 119 from 254 balls.
His real breakthrough came in the 2022 season, demonstrated by his 206-run outing against Somerset in the Royal London One-Day Cup in August 2022, which was shortly followed by an impressive 198 just a month later, this time in red ball format against Glamorgan.
After moving Hampshire ahead of the 2024 season, a first century for the club came against Durham at the Utilita Bowl: his 126 from 211 deliveries coming against a fearsome bowling attack of Matthew Potts, Peter Siddle and Brydon Carse.
On his Vitality Blast debut for the Hawks, an injury sustained on the field curtailed the rest of Orr’s summer. He finished the season with six appearances across the County Championship and Vitality Blast, scoring 205 runs.
Orr would return to the Hampshire first team in November for the Global Super League in Guyana, playing all four of the Hawks fixtures and scoring 41 runs.
The left-hander bounced back in 2025 with three centuries in the One Day Cup, including 110 in the final against Worcestershire, as Hampshire reached the showpiece event for the second time in three years.
Orr would end the competition as the third-leading run scorer in the competition as he amassed 602 runs at an average of 54.72.
Alongside Nick Gubbins, the duo formed a formidable opening partnership with two century stands, including a mammoth 202-run partnership against Leicestershire at Utilita Bowl, where Orr made 131.
In the County Championship, he played six matches and scored 305 runs and featured in three Vitality Blast matches as the Hawks Men reached a record 11th Finals Day appearance.
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