Player Profile

In Grace Potts, Lancashire have signed an exciting fast bowler who is on the verge of breaking through into England’s senior team. 

Upon announcing her arrival at Emirates Old Trafford in October 2024, Director of Women’s Cricket David Thorley described it as a “no-brainer to bring her to Lancashire Thunder”.

Potts is a product of the Staffordshire system having been born in Newcastle-under-Lyme. She first picked up a bat and ball when she was just six-years-old.

She has played senior cricket for them since 2018, later going on to play for the Central Sparks. 

Potts, now aged 22, has represented England A at home and abroad in 2023 and 2024 - against South Africa at home and then away on tour in New Zealand. 

She was added to England’s senior squad for a late 2024 Test Match in South Africa as injury cover and, on the eve of the 2025 summer, was part of an England Pathway training camp in Abu Dhabi. 

The new ball seamer - right-arm - claimed 77 wickets in all cricket across the four seasons she played for the Central Sparks between 2021 and 2024, including a best of 4-36 in a Charlotte Edwards Cup T20 win over South East Stars in 2022. 

She played in the Sparks’ CEC final defeat against Southern Vipers at Northampton that summer.

The 2024 campaign was an impressive one for rapidly developing Potts, who claimed 15 wickets from 12 appearances in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and a further 12 wickets from 11 matches in the Charlotte Edwards Cup. 

She is closing in on 100 senior career appearances and 100 wickets. Hopefully both of those milestones will come in Lancashire colours in 2025. 

Pacy Potts is no stranger to Emirates Old Trafford having played five times in the Hundred for the Manchester Originals in 2022.