Katherine Abigail Jones (born 28 December 2005) is an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

er who currently plays for

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

and

Western Storm Western Storm are a women's cricket team representing South West England and Wales, one of eight regional hubs in English domestic cricket. They play their home matches at the County Ground, Taunton, the County Ground, Bristol and Sophia Gardens ...

. She plays as a

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and right-handed batter.

Domestic career

Jones made her county debut in 2021, for

against

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. She took two catches and made three stumpings for the side in the

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. She was Gloucestershire's second-leading run-scorer in the

2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup The 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2022 Vitality Women's County T20, was the 13th edition of the Women's Twenty20 Cup, an English women's cricket Twenty20 domestic competition. It took place in April and May 20 ...

, with 111 runs including 40 from 33 deliveries made against

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...

. She also took two catches and made two stumpings. She scored 43 runs in four matches in the

2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup The 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2023 Vitality Women's County T20, was the 14th edition of the Women's Twenty20 Cup, an English women's cricket Twenty20 domestic competition. It was scheduled to take place in A ...

, as well as making five stumpings. Jones was named in the

Academy for 2022. She was named in a matchday squad for the senior team for the first time in September 2022. She was again named in the academy squad for 2023, before being promoted to the senior squad ahead of the season. She made her debut for the side on 10 May 2023, against The Blaze in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She played seven matches overall for the side that season, batting three times with a top score of 32.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Katie 2005 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Gloucestershire women cricketers Western Storm cricketers