Player Profile

Red Rose title-winner Eve Jones has returned to Emirates Old Trafford for the start of a new era in the women’s game. 

Top order batter Jones was part of the Lancashire side which won the county double back in 2017; the County Championship and the T20 Cup.

The left-hander then went on to captain the side during the following two summers, something she later did with the Central Sparks in regional cricket. 

Jones, now aged 32, is undoubtedly one of the best domestic batters never to have played for England, though she has come close having represented England A at home and abroad in 2022 and 2023. 

Classy Jones has played in the Hundred for both Birmingham Phoenix and Manchester Originals and has played winter overseas cricket in Australia (Melbourne Renegades) and New Zealand (Canterbury).

She was the second leading run-scorer in last season’s Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, scoring 556 runs in that 50-over competition for the Edgbaston-based Sparks, who she played for between 2020 and 2024, and briefly Thunder.

Jones played for Lancashire Thunder during the old Kia Super League days between 2017 and 2019 and returned briefly to the Red Rose on loan at the back end of last summer.

A trio of RHFT appearances signalled a permanent move back to the North West, where she will no doubt be a talismanic presence in the top order for the next three years and hopefully beyond. 

Shrewsbury-born Jones is closing in on 300 senior career appearances across List A and T20 cricket, a mark she is just 10 short of on the eve of the 2025 campaign. In that time, she has scored 7,185 runs with seven centuries.

All of those centuries have come in the List A game, including a career best 136 not out against Thunder for the Sparks at Emirates Old Trafford early last summer when she brilliantly led a successful visiting chase of 285.

“That innings from Eve was one of the best any of us have seen in the women’s game. It was timed to perfection,” said Lancashire’s Director of Women’s cricket David Thorley earlier this winter.

In 2021, Jones won the PCA’s Women’s player of the year award following an exceptional summer across all formats for both the Sparks in regional cricket and for Birmingham Phoenix in the Hundred. She topped 800 runs in all.