Player Profile

Johnson headed into the 2025 campaign as a newly contracted professional at Lancashire having penned a two-year deal at Emirates Old Trafford last November.

It came on the back of a mightily impressive 2024 summer which saw the young up and comer debut for Thunder in both 50-over and T20 regional cricket. 

At the start of 2025, she helped Lancashire Thunder win the Vitality County T20 Cup, playing once in that competition - the third round win at Glamorgan, in which she took the new ball and returned a superb three for two from three overs with her seamers. 

Burnley-born and now 20-years-old, Johnson has been playing senior county cricket since 2021, having first represented Cumbria Women and then - a year later - Lancashire. But her first taste of regional action last summer, in both the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup, was another step up.

She debuted first of all in the CEC T20 competition, a mid-June clash with local rivals Northern Diamonds at Durham, in which she made one with the bat in the middle order and bowled two cheap overs of seam up. Unfortunately, Thunder were beaten that day. 

The right-hander and right-armer followed that with two 50-over RHFT appearances in September, tasting victory in the second of those against Western Storm at Taunton. Johnson hit 23 in that win and claimed 1-14 from four overs with the new ball. 

It capped off a summer she won’t forget in a hurry, having also captained Lancashire’s Under 18s Women to two national titles. 

In all cricket for Lancashire and Thunder sides in 2024, she scored 1,286 runs and took 61 wickets. The awarding of a professional contract was, therefore, absolutely no surprise.

Johnson, who came up through the Lancashire age-groups, started out at Lowerhouse - the same club which Liberty Heap calls home - before moving to play for Ramsbottom Women.