Player Profile

It’s in the family for one of Lancashire’s newest men’s professionals, Joe Moores.

Wicketkeeper-batter Joe, also a live-wire in the field when not taking the gloves, is the nephew of serial title-winning coach Peter.

A County Championship winner with Lancashire in 2011, Peter was at it again in 2025 when claiming the same title in charge of Nottinghamshire. Joe’s cousin Tom is a white-ball regular at Trent Bridge.

And last but not least, Joe’s father Steve is the current head of cricket and hockey at King’s School Macclesfield, the family’s home town.

Steve previously played National Counties - or Minor Counties as it was then - cricket for Cheshire in the 1990s.

Joe, aged 17, made his first-team debut for the Red Rose during the 2025 Metro Bank One-Day Cup, posting a best of 35 in four appearances. Last summer, he also played for a First-Class Counties Select XI against the touring Pakistan A side.

He took the gloves in a pair of 50-over matches against the tourists, though he didn’t do that during the One-Day Cup. 

He is a dynamic left-handed middle order batter who, just prior to representing his nation at January’s World Cup in Zimbabwe and Namibia, had played 26 times for England Under 19s with six fifties. 

Moores has played age-group and then Academy cricket for both Cheshire and Lancashire and first represented our second team at the start of 2024.

He scored a red-ball century for the Red Rose Academy that summer and followed it with another for the ECB Elite Player Development North Under-18s.

Upon signing pro terms with Lancashire in December, he described it as “a dream”.

Head coach Steven Croft said that, during the One-Day Cup, young Moores had “impressed everyone with his attitude, professionalism, and skill”.