Player Profile
In Grace Potts, Lancashire have signed an exciting fast bowler who has caught the eye of the England selectors.
Potts, aged 23, put pen to paper at Emirates Old Trafford in October 2024 and won the double in her first season with the county, the Vitality T20 County Cup and the Metro Bank One-Day Cup.
And she played an important part, especially in the latter.
Upon announcing her arrival at the Red Rose, director of women’s cricket David Thorley described it as a “no-brainer to bring her to Lancashire”.
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 has represented England A at home and abroad in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
In March 2026, she was named as part of an England intra-squad T20 series in South Africa as build-up to the forthcoming World Cup. Lancashire team-mates Sophie Ecclestone, Mahika Gaur, Emma Lamb and Ellie Threlkeld were also involved.
She was added to England’s senior squad for a late 2024 Test Match in South Africa as injury cover.
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.
Pacy Potts played for the Manchester Originals in The Hundred in 2022.
In 2025, it’s not quite true to say that she saved her best until last in a Lancashire shirt, however it’s not completely stretching the truth.
Potts claimed a pair of four-wicket hauls in One-Day Cup and Vitality Blast wins over The Blaze and Durham in May and June.
But, then, in September, she ended the summer with two crucial three-wicket hauls against The Blaze and Hampshire in the semi-final and final of the One-Day Cup as Lancashire secured silverware.
Potts was also a talented junior netball and hockey player and has studied sports psychology at Loughborough University.
In 2025, she went beyond 100 senior, all-format career appearances. She did likewise with wickets.