Emma Lamb

Emma Louise Lamb (born 16 December 1997) is an English cricketer who plays for Lancashire Women and North West Thunder, and has previously played for Lancashire Thunder. Lamb is a batting all-rounder, and bowls off spin.

Emma Lamb
Personal information
Full nameEmma Louise Lamb
Born (1997-12-16) 16 December 1997
Preston, Lancashire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
RoleBatting all-rounder
RelationsDanny Lamb (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2012–presentLancashire Women
2016–2019Lancashire Thunder
2020–presentNorth West Thunder
Source: Cricinfo

Personal life

Lamb is from Preston, Lancashire, England.[1] She studied at Edge Hill University,[2] graduating in 2019.[3] Her brother Danny plays for the Lancashire men's team,[2] and has played amateur cricket in the Cheshire County Cricket League.[1]

Career

Club career

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, making her one of only two women to have done so (the other one 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 women 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 Counties Twenty20 competition.[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 has been 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]

International career

In 2016, Lamb was called up to the England women's cricket team for their tour of Sri Lanka.[14] 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.[15] 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.[16] Lamb was one of three uncapped players in the training squad; the others were Lauren Bell and Issy Wong.[17]

References
  1. "Emma Lamb". CricBuzz. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  2. "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. "Emma Lamb awarded England rookie contract". Women's CricZone. 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  4. "Edge Hill graduate becomes the latest England player to be granted a rookie contract". Cricket World. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  5. "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. "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. "Lamb added to England women's squad to take on Sri Lanka". The Cricket Paper. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  15. "This is what it means for us to go pro". The Cricketer. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  16. "England Women select squad for individual training at six venues from next week". Express & Star. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  17. "England Women select squad for individual training at six venues from next week". Express & Star. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
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