Player Profile
Prolific batter Katie Mack has returned to Emirates Old Trafford on an overseas deal for the first half of 2025 with Lancashire’s Women. Mack represented Thunder in regional cricket last summer and impressed greatly in the top order.
Mack, 31, has vast experienced both in her native Australia and also England. The Sydney-born right-hander has previously played for Essex (2012) in county cricket and for Birmingham Phoenix (2021) in the Hundred.
Last summer, in Thunder colours, she scored 473 runs in 15 matches across all cricket, including a best of 100 in an early-season 50-over win against Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy champions elect Sunrisers at Emirates Old Trafford.
Later in the summer, she scored an unbeaten 92 in a friendly against The Blaze.
Mack batted at three last season in 50-over and T20 cricket.
She will play in both competitions for Lancashire during the first half of this summer, until the beginning of June. Team-mate Fi Morris has described her as “the perfect signing”.
During the early stages of her second season in the North West, she will reach 300 senior career appearances across T20 and 50-over cricket combined. She currently sits on 295 and is closing in on 7,500 runs as well.
Right-hander Mack plays her state cricket for the Australian Capital Territory whilst also representing the Adelaide Strikers in the Women’s Big Bash League competition. She is also in the Australia A set-up at present.
Mack won back-to-back WBBL titles with the Strikers in 2022 and 2023.
Some more silverware whilst with Lancashire? Yes please.
In the most recent title success, which saw them beat Brisbane Heat in the December 2023 final, she contributed an impressive 452 runs from 15 matches with three fifties.
She was voted at the Strikers’ Most Valuable Player at their end-of-season awards.
Concentrating on 50-over cricket given that’s where she will play the majority of her cricket with Lancashire in 2025, she has scored seven career centuries with a best of 140 not out. That best came in January of last year for the ACT in a Women’s National Cricket League clash with Victoria.
Mack has captained the Australian Capital Territory team in the WNCL competition for the last three Aussie summers and has recently been selected in their team of century, the state celebrating their best players over the last 100 years.
She has been with that state for the last 11 years.
Mack actually made her senior debut whilst playing county cricket for Essex in 2012.
She has gained national honours for Australia at Under 21s and A-team level.
Mack is a versatile batter who can bat anywhere in the top and middle order. She has opened the batting a lot in her career.
On the Adelaide Strikers website, they describe Mack as a “dynamic batter, a smart cricket mind, quick between the wickets and an athletic fielder”.
Mack also bowls part-time spin.