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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.

Emma Lamb
Personal information
Full name
Emma Louise Lamb
Born (1997-12-16) 16 December 1997 (age 26)
Preston, Lancashire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
RoleBatting all-rounder
RelationsDanny Lamb (brother)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 165)27 June 2022 v South Africa
Last Test22 June 2023 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 137)8 February 2022 v Australia
Last ODI11 September 2024 v Ireland
Only T20I (cap 51)1 September 2021 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2012–presentLancashire
2016–2019Lancashire Thunder
2020–presentNorth West Thunder
2021–presentManchester Originals
Career statistics
Competition WTest WODI WT20I WLA
Matches 2 11 1 87
Runs scored 76 363 0 2,764
Batting average 25.33 36.30 – 36.36
100s/50s 0/0 1/2 0/0 3/19
Top score 38 102 0* 121
Balls bowled 12 108 – 1,391
Wickets 0 3 – 41
Bowling average – 32.00 – 25.09
5 wickets in innings 0 0 – 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 – 0
Best bowling – 3/42 – 4/39
Catches/stumpings 2/– 2/– 0/– 14/–
Source: CricketArchive, 15 September 2023

Personal life

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Lamb is from Preston, Lancashire, England.[1] She studied at Edge Hill University,[2] graduating in 2019.[3] Her brother Danny plays for the Sussex men's team,[2] and she played alongside him when she became the first female cricketer to take part in the Cheshire County Premier League.[1]

Club career

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Lamb played at youth level for Lancashire Women, and was their player of the year on two occasions.[1] She averaged over 100 in under-17 level cricket.[4] 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.[1][5] Her brother Danny also played in the match.[5] Lamb has also played for the Lancashire men's academy. she was the second woman to have done so (the first being Kate Cross).[6]

Lamb made her Women's County Championship debut in 2012, playing for Lancashire Women against Warwickshire Women.[1][4] In 2013, she made her first century in a match against Durham Women.[1][4] 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.[7] Lamb was part of the Lancashire Women team that won two trophies:[4][6] the 2017 Women's County Championship,[8] and the 2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup.[9] 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.[10] Between 2016 and 2019, Lamb made 30 appearances for Thunder in the Super League, scoring 329 runs and taking 21 wickets.[3] In 2020, Lamb played for North West Thunder in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.[11] In December 2020, Lamb was one of 41 women's cricketers given a full-time domestic cricket contract.[12] Lamb was selected to play for Manchester Originals in The Hundred;[3] the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Lamb was retained by the Originals for the 2021 season.[13] She was the second leading run scorer of Manchester Originals with 135 runs in the tournament.[14]

In 2021, Lamb became the first batter to score a century in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, scoring 111* off 61 balls against Sunrisers.[15][16] She ended the tournament as the second highest run-scorer across all teams.[17] She was also North West Thunder's leading run-scorer in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, with 237 runs including her List A high score of 121.[18]

In April 2022, she was bought by the Manchester Originals for the 2022 season of The Hundred.[19]

International career

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In 2016, Lamb was called up to the England women's cricket team for their tour of Sri Lanka.[20] She played for the England women's academy in matches against Sri Lanka A and Australia Shooting Stars.[1] In 2017, Lamb played for England in a pre-season tour match against Ireland. The match was a warm up match prior to the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup.[1][2]

In February 2020, Lamb attended a Professional Cricketers' Association rookie training camp.[3] In April 2020, Lamb was awarded an England rookie contract.[3] In June 2020, Lamb was one of 25 women given a retainer contract. The retainer was in addition to her rookie contract.[21] In the same month, she was one of 24 England women given permission to start training ahead of possible international matches. It was the first time that woman cricketers had been allowed to train since English cricket was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[22] Lamb was one of three uncapped players in the training squad; the others were Lauren Bell and Issy Wong.[23]

In August 2021, Lamb was added to England's Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) squad for their series against New Zealand, after Maia Bouchier and Charlie Dean were both ruled out of the first match after being identified as possible COVID-19 contacts.[24] She made her WT20I England debut in the first match of the series.[25]

In December 2021, Lamb was named in England's A squad for their tour to Australia, with the matches being played alongside the Women's Ashes.[26] Lamb was added to England's Ashes squad for the final Women's One Day International (WODI) match of the tour, where she made her WODI debut.[27] In February 2022, she was named in England's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[28] In June 2022, Lamb was named in England's Women's Test squad for their one-off match against South Africa.[29] She made her Test debut on 27 June 2022, for England against South Africa.[30] The following month, also in the series against South Africa, Lamb scored her first century in WODI cricket, with 102 runs.[31] In November 2022, Lamb was awarded with her first England central contract.[32]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Emma Lamb". CricBuzz. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Preston's Lancashire cricket star Emma Lamb wants to make her mark with England". Lancashire Evening Post. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Emma Lamb awarded England rookie contract". Women's CricZone. 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "Edge Hill graduate becomes the latest England player to be granted a rookie contract". Cricket World. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Lancashire's Emma Lamb becomes first woman to play in Cheshire County Premier League". Manchester Evening News. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Women's Sport: Emma Lamb becomes the latest England player to be granted a rookie contract". Give Me Sport. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Bridging the gap with the Super League". ESPNcricinfo. 29 August 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  8. ^ "MATCH REPORT: An Ecc Of A Game For Lancashire As They Do The Double". Cricket Her. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  9. ^ "MATCH REPORT: Lancashire Win T20 Cup v Surrey & Yorkshire". Cricket Her. 30 July 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Tash Farrant's hat-trick overshadowed as Emma Lamb takes Thunder's best figures". ESPNcricinfo. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Alex Hartley included in Thunder squad for Rachael Heyhoe-Flint trophy". Women's CricZone. 21 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Forty-one female players sign full-time domestic contracts". England and Wales Cricket Board. 3 December 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  13. ^ "Amelia Kerr leads new raft of players confirmed for women's Hundred in 2021". The Cricketer. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  14. ^ "The Hundred Women's Competition, 2021 - Manchester Originals (Women) Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  15. ^ "Lamb stars as Thunder thrash Sunrisers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  16. ^ "Emma Lamb becomes first Charlotte Edwards Cup centurion as Thunder strike down Sunrisers". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  17. ^ "Records/Charlotte Edwards Cup, 2021/Most Runs". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  18. ^ "Records/Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy 2021 - Thunder/Batting and Bowling Averages". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  19. ^ "The Hundred 2022: latest squads as Draft picks revealed". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  20. ^ "Lamb added to England women's squad to take on Sri Lanka". The Cricket Paper. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  21. ^ "This is what it means for us to go pro". The Cricketer. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  22. ^ "England Women select squad for individual training at six venues from next week". Express & Star. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  23. ^ "England Women select squad for individual training at six venues from next week". Express & Star. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  24. ^ "Bouchier and Dean to miss first T20 against New Zealand, Emma Lamb called up as replacement". The Cricketer. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  25. ^ "1st T20I (N), Chelmsford, Sep 1 2021, New Zealand Women tour of England". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  26. ^ "Heather Knight vows to 'fight fire with fire' during Women's Ashes". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  27. ^ "3rd ODI, Melbourne, Feb 8 2022, Women's Ashes". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  28. ^ "Charlie Dean, Emma Lamb in England's ODI World Cup squad". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  29. ^ "England v South Africa: Emma Lamb one of five uncapped players chosen". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  30. ^ "Only Test, Taunton, June 27 - 30, 2022, South Africa Women tour of England". Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  31. ^ "England v South Africa: Emma Lamb century helps secure victory for hosts". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  32. ^ "Six players earn first England Women Central Contract". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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