Emma Lamb

Emma Louise Lamb (born 16 December 1997) is an English cricketer who plays for Lancashire Women, North West Thunder and Manchester Originals, and has previously played for Lancashire Thunder. Lamb is a batting all-rounder, and bowls off spin. She made her international debut for the England women's cricket team in September 2021. Personal life Lamb is from Preston, Lancashire, England. She studied at Edge Hill University, graduating in 2019. Her brother Danny plays for the Lancashire men's team, and she played alongside him when she became the first female cricketer to take part in the Cheshire County Premier League. Club career Lamb played at youth level for Lancashire Women, and was their player of the year on two occasions. She averaged over 100 in under-17 level cricket. In 2015, Lamb became the first woman to play in the Cheshire County Cricket League, when she played for Bramhall against Neston. She scored 30 runs in the match. Her brother Danny also played in the match. Lamb has also played for the Lancashire men's academy. she was the second woman to have done so (the first being Kate Cross). Lamb made her Women's County Championship debut in 2012, playing for Lancashire Women against Warwickshire Women. In 2013, she made her first century in a match against Durham Women. Aged 18, Lamb opened the batting for Lancashire Thunder in the 2016 Women's Cricket Super League. She made the most runs of any English woman in the tournament, and was the only English woman in the top 10 run scorers. Lamb was part of the Lancashire Women team that won two trophies: the 2017 Women's County Championship, and the 2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup. In 2018, Lamb took 4/17 in a Super League match against Southern Vipers. It was the best bowling figures by a Thunder bowler in the Super League. Between 2016 and 2019, Lamb made 30 appearances for Thunder in the Super League, scoring 329 runs and taking 21 wickets. In 2020, Lamb played for North West Thunder in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. In December 2020, Lamb was one of 41 women's cricketers given a full-time domestic cricket contract. Lamb was selected to play for Manchester Originals in The Hundred; the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Lamb was retained by the Originals for the 2021 season. She was the second leading run scorer of Manchester Originals with 135 runs in the tournament.