Player Profile
Phoebe Graham is a good judge, isn’t she!
After a couple of trophy challenges with the Northern Diamonds across the first two years of regional cricket, she moved over to the right side of the Pennines and took up a contract with the Thunder.
In 2024, the fast bowler will embark upon her third summer at Emirates Old Trafford.
Graham was part of the Diamonds team which reached the final of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy in 2020 and 2021. She also played four times in the Charlotte Edwards Cup in the latter year but did not play in their final defeat to South East Stars at the Ageas Bowl.
When the new ball seamer initially took up contract at Headingley, she gave up her full-time job as a Marketing Lead at Sky Television.
Graham still writes a blog for the Sky Sports website about cricket and women’s sport in general and also undertakes various bits of radio summarising for the likes of BBC and Talksport.
Now aged 32, Graham has played senior county cricket for five counties, including home team Yorkshire and most recently Lancashire. She has also played for Nottinghamshire, Devon and Berkshire.
She helped Lancashire win the regionalised final of the County T20 Cup in 2022, the Red Rose beating Yorkshire in the final at Northern near Liverpool.
Graham came up through the Yorkshire age-groups from Under 13s and has gone on to play in the Hundred for the Northern Superchargers and the Manchester Originals.
She comes from a cricket mad family, with her late father Peter a prolific Minor Counties seamer for Northumberland.
Phoebe made her senior county debut for Nottinghamshire in 2010 and also played for the White Rose county that summer.
She once took 7-8 playing women’s league cricket in Yorkshire for the Ben Rhydding team.
In all List A and T20 cricket, she has taken 95 wickets from 129 appearances for all teams. That haul includes six wickets in 11 outings for Thunder in 2022 and three in five in 2023.
Unfortunately, 2023 proved a frustrating season for Graham, who struggled to break into Thunder’s team. She did not play at all in the Charlotte Edwards Cup and went on loan to Western Storm in July, playing four RHFT games. She returned to Thunder and finished off the season in the 50-over side.
Graham is a tall bowler with good pace and a useful lower order batter.
In the winter of 2022/23, she had an encouraging spell playing for the Northern Brave in New Zealand’s Super Smash T20 competition either side of Christmas.
In a struggling side - the Brave only won one match - she claimed seven wickets in eight appearances, including a best of 3-11.
In 2024, she will be hoping to reach 100 career wickets across both limited overs formats, but would love to do it in a trophy-winning season for Thunder.