The Lancashire Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Lancashire. They play their home games at various grounds across the county, including Beaconsfield Road, Widnes. They are coached by Chris Chambers and captained by Eleanor Threlkeld. They won both the County Championship and the Twenty20 Cup in 2017. Lancashire have links with Cumbria, with some players playing for both sides, as well as some of their players making up a North Representative XI in 2021 and 2022. They are partnered with the regional side North West Thunder.
History 1930–1997: Early History Lancashire Women played their first game in 1930, against the Women's Cricket Association, which they won by 111 runs. Over the following years, Lancashire played various one-off games, often against nearby counties such as Yorkshire and Cheshire. They also competed in the Women's Area Championship, and the inaugural Women's County Championship, as a combined team with Cheshire, Lancashire and Cheshire Women.
1998– : Women's County Championship 1998 was the first season in which Lancashire competed in the County Championship on their own, and they finished 3rd in Division 3, before being promoted the following season. Over the following seasons, Lancashire bounced between the divisions, having a four-year stint in Division One, from 2004 to 2007, but also reaching as low as Division Three in 2010 and 2011. They topped Division Two in 2013 and 2014: in 2013 they lost the Division Final to Somerset, but managed to gain promotion in 2014. They were relegated in 2015, but bounced straight back up to Division One in 2016.
Lancashire then went on to have an exceptional 2017 season, in which they won both the County Championship and the Women's Twenty20 Cup. In the Championship, they topped Division One with 5 wins from 7 games. Lancashire bowler Sophie Ecclestone was the leading wicket-taker in the Division, while Amy Satterthwaite and Evelyn Jones were the 3rd and 4th leading run-scorers, respectively. Meanwhile in the T20 Cup, Lancashire won 7 from 8 games to claim the title, with batter Emma Lamb ending the tournament as the leading run-scorer for the division. In the following years, Lancashire retained their place in Division One of the Championship without seriously challenging for the title, whilst managing a second-place finish in the 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, one point behind Champions Warwickshire. In 2021, they competed in the North Group of the Twenty20 Cup, and won their region, with 4 wins and 4 matches abandoned due to rain. Batter Emma Lamb was the third-highest run-scorer across the competition, with 233 runs including one century. They again won their group in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, going unbeaten in the group stage before beating Yorkshire in the final. Batter Georgie Boyce was the leading run-scorer in the competition, with 306 runs, whilst bowlers Alex Hartley and Phoebe Graham were joint-second leading wicket-takers, with 13 wickets. They won their Women's Twenty20 Cup group for the third consecutive season in 2023, defeating Scotland in the final. In 2024, the side finished 2nd in their group in the Twenty20 Cup and won their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament.
Players Current squad No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt. denotes players with international caps. No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batters5 Meg Lanning Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas player6 Emma Lamb Right-handed Right-arm off break England skills contract11 Eve Jones Left-handed Left-arm medium 32 Ailsa Lister Right-handed — 45 Tilly Kesteven Left-handed Right-arm leg break All-rounders76 Darcey Carter Right-handed Right-arm off break Wicket-keepers 21 Ellie Threlkeld Right-handed — Club captain Bowlers3 Sophie Morris Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 9 Grace Potts Right-handed Right-arm medium 18 Mahika Gaur Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium England central contract19 Sophie Ecclestone Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox England central contract24 Tara Norris Left-handed Left-arm medium UK passport53 Grace Johnson Right-handed Right-arm medium Source: Updated: 1 October 2026
Notable players Players who have played for Lancashire and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):
Joy Liebert (1934) Betty Snowball (1934) June Bragger (1963) Avril Starling (1982) Carole Hodges (1982) Laura Newton (1997) Sune van Zyl (1999) Arran Brindle (1999) Leanne Davis (2000) Nelly Williams (2003) Lonell de Beer (2005) Amy Satterthwaite (2007) Kate Cross (2013) Alex Hartley (2016) Sophie Ecclestone (2016) Jasmine Titmuss (2019) Emma Lamb (2021) Seren Smale (2024)
Seasons Women's County Championship Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos 1998 Division 3 5 3 2 0 0 36 72 3rd 1999 Division 3 5 5 0 0 0 44 104 1st Promoted 2000 Division 2 5 3 2 0 0 37.5 73.5 2nd 2001 Division 2 5 3 2 0 0 36 72 2nd 2002 Division 2 5 3 0 0 2 22.5 80.5 2nd 2003 Division 2 5 4 0 0 1 34 93 1st Promoted 2004 Division 1 5 2 3 0 0 34 58 4th 2005 Division 1 6 2 3 0 1 40 75 3rd 2006 Division 1 6 1 5 0 0 20 40 3rd 2007 Division 1 6 0 5 0 1 16 26 4th Relegated 2008 Division 2 6 3 3 0 0 3 63 3rd 2009 Division 2 10 1 9 0 0 22 42 6th Relegated 2010 Division 3 10 6 3 0 1 53 113 3rd 2011 Division 3 9 3 5 1 0 43 78 5th Promoted 2012 Division 2 8 4 3 0 1 44 84 4th 2013 Division 2 8 8 0 0 0 58 138 1st Lost Division 2 final 2014 Division 2 8 6 1 0 1 29 109 1st Promoted 2015 Division 1 8 0 8 0 0 23 23 9th Relegated 2016 Division 2 7 4 1 0 2 35 75 1st Promoted 2017 Division 1 7 5 2 0 0 49 99 1st Champions 2018 Division 1 7 3 4 0 0 41 71 4th 2019 Division 1 7 4 3 0 0 42 82 4th
Women's Twenty20 Cup Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C NRR Pts Pos 2009 Division 2 3 1 1 0 1 −0.45 3 2nd 2010 Division M&N 2 3 0 2 0 1 −0.69 1 3rd 2011 Division M&N 2 3 1 2 0 0 −1.16 2 3rd 2012 Division M&N 2 3 1 1 0 1 −0.22 2 2nd Lost promotion play-off 2013 Division M&N 2 2 0 1 0 1 −4.85 1 2nd 2014 Division 2B 4 2 2 0 0 +0.32 8 4th 2015 Division 2 8 8 0 0 0 +2.28 32 1st Promoted 2016 Division 1 7 3 4 0 0 −0.64 12 5th 2017 Division 1 8 7 1 0 0 +1.48 28 1st Champions 2018 Division 1 8 4 4 0 0 −0.16 16 6th 2019 Division 1 8 4 1 0 3 +0.77 19 2nd 2021 North 8 4 0 0 4 +5.07 20 1st Group winners 2022 Group 1 6 6 0 0 0 +3.12 24 1st Group winners 2023 Group 1 6 1 1 0 4 +2.50 8 2nd Group winners 2024 Group 1 7 6 1 0 0 +1.19 88 2nd
ECB Women's County One-Day Season Group League standings Notes P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos 2024 Group 1 4 3 0 0 1 2 15 1st Group winners
Women's One-Day Season League League standings Notes P W L T NR BP Pts Pos 2025 League 1 14 9 4 0 1 3 41 3rd Advanced to knockout stage. Champions after knockout stage. 2026 League 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Honours County Championship: Division One champions (1) – 2018 Division Two champions (3) – 2003, 2014 & 2016 Division Three champions (1) – 1999 Women's Twenty20 Cup Division One champions (1) – 2017 Division Two champions (1) – 2015 Group winners (3) – 2021, 2022 & 2023 Women's T20 County Cup: Winners (1) – 2025 ECB Women's County One-Day: Group winners (1) – 2024 Women's One-Day Cup Winners (1) - 2025
See also Lancashire County Cricket Club North West Thunder North Representative XI
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