Player Profile

Trophy-winner Hannah Jones was given the nickname ‘The Quiet Assassin’ by Paul Shaw when he was at Emirates Old Trafford, the Red Rose head coach of the time particularly impressed by how the left-arm spinner gets on with her business with the minimum of fuss, returning performance after performance.

Mancunian Jones, 27-years-old, has been contracted by the county since 2020.

She has represented England A once, playing against the senior New Zealand team in August 2021 - a 50-over victory at Derby in which she took 2-40 from nine overs.

The spinner, a product of Didsbury, has progressed through the Lancashire age-groups from Under 13s to Under 17s between 2010-2016.

She made her senior debut for the Red Rose county in 2014, aged 15, and has gone on to take 124 wickets in 121 senior appearances for all teams. 

She has a best of 5-33 from nine overs to her name, in a 50-over regional win for Thunder against South East Stars at Beckenham in late 2021.

Jones went beyond 100 senior career appearances and 100 wickets for all teams and across both List A and T20 cricket in 2024. 

She would have reached those milestones in 2023 but for a shoulder injury, which required surgery, ruining her summer.

She only played three competitive matches for Thunder in that campaign, all in the regional Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy competition in September, claiming an encouraging four wickets.

In 2024, she claimed 30 wickets in 20 matches for Thunder, including a best of 5-13 in a 50-over friendly win against The Blaze. Twenty two of those wickets came in the RHFT, and she was the competition’s leading spinner and the second most prolific wicket-taker in all. 

In 2025, she spent a brief mid-season spell on loan with Somerset, playing T20 cricket. 

But, either side of that, she claimed 14 wickets in 10 appearances for her home county in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup, helping Lancashire win the title. 

Jones is both miserly and potent with ball in hand and has often taken the new ball.

She played for Thunder across the five seasons of regional cricket between 2020 and 2024, claiming 82 wickets. Her best return was the aforementioned 5-33 against the Stars in 2021. 

Back in 2015, she claimed 5-5 in a 45-over victory for Lancashire Under 17s versus Durham.

Jones has also played for the Emirates Old Trafford-based Manchester Originals in The Hundred.