Emma Louise Lamb (born 16 December 1997) is an English

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er who plays for Lancashire Women,

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and Manchester Originals, and has previously played for

Lancashire Thunder Lancashire Thunder were an English women's Twenty20 cricket team based in Manchester, Lancashire that competed in England’s women's Twenty20 competition, the Women's Cricket Super League. Thunder played their home matches at Old Trafford and va ...

. Lamb is a batting

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, and bowls

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. She made her international debut for the

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in September 2021.

Personal life

Lamb is from

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, England. She studied at

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, graduating in 2019. Her brother

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plays for the

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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

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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

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against

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. 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

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). Lamb made her

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in a match against Durham Women. Aged 18, Lamb opened the batting for

in the

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. 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

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, and the 2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup. In 2018, Lamb took 4/17 in a

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match against

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. 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

in the

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. 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

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, 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. In 2021, Lamb became the first batter to score a century in the

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, scoring 111 * off 61 balls against Sunrisers. She ended the tournament as the second highest run-scorer across all teams. She was also North West Thunder's leading run-scorer in the

, with 237 runs including her

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high score of 121. In April 2022, she was bought by the Manchester Originals for the 2022 season of The Hundred.

International career

In 2016, Lamb was called up to the

for their tour of

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. She played for the England women's academy in matches against Sri Lanka A and Australia Shooting Stars. In 2017, Lamb played for England in a pre-season tour match against

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. The match was a warm up match prior to the

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. In February 2020, Lamb attended a

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training camp. In April 2020, Lamb was awarded an England rookie contract. In June 2020, Lamb was one of 25 women given a retainer contract. The retainer was in addition to her rookie contract. 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. Lamb was one of three uncapped players in the training squad; the others were Lauren Bell and

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. In August 2021, Lamb was added to England's

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(WT20I) squad for their series against New Zealand, after Maia Bouchier and

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were both ruled out of the first match after being identified as possible

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contacts. She made her WT20I England debut in the first match of the series. In December 2021, Lamb was named in England's A squad for their tour to Australia, with the matches being played alongside the

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. Lamb was added to England's Ashes squad for the final

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(WODI) match of the tour, where she made her WODI debut. In February 2022, she was named in England's team for the

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in New Zealand. In June 2022, Lamb was named in England's

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squad for their one-off match against South Africa. She made her Test debut on 27 June 2022, for England against

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. The following month, also in the series against South Africa, Lamb scored her first century in WODI cricket, with 102 runs. In November 2022, Lamb was awarded with her first England central contract.

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