Player Profile
Seren Smale is undoubtedly in the midst of a golden period in her career.
Runs, international appearances and trophies, the young wicketkeeper-batter has done it all in a short space of time.
Aged 21, Wrexham-born Smale has played two T20 internationals for England - on tour of Ireland in September 2024.
A year later, she scored a superb top-order 72 for Lancashire in the final of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup against Hampshire at Southampton, which they won.
Earlier in the summer, in late May to be precise, she helped the Red Rose win the Vitality T20 County Cup at Taunton. In the semi-final win over The Blaze to start a fabulous Finals Day, she scored an unbeaten 35 to help reel in a revised target of 90.
She was Lancashire’s leading run-scorer in that competition with 135 from four matches, including a best of 58 not out in the quarter-final win over Leicestershire at Kibworth.
In the One-Day Cup, she contributed 391 runs from 15 matches, including two fifties. That final 72 was the best of them.
Ahead of 2023, Smale was awarded her maiden professional contract at Emirates Old Trafford. In 2024, she starred for Lancashire Thunder in regional cricket and went on to make her senior international debut for England.
In the two T20Is against the Irish, she posted scores of 25 and 10 whilst taking the gloves. For Lancashire, she plays as a specialist batter, with captain Ellie Threlkeld behind the stumps.
She had already represented England’s Under 19s and A sides in South Africa and New Zealand, the former at the inaugural T20 World Cup in early 2023 when they reached the final.
To 2024….Smale scored 722 runs from 22 competitive appearances for Thunder, including 515 of them in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.
She was third-leading run-scorer across the whole of that competition and was named as Lancashire Thunder’s Charlotte Edwards (T20) Cup player-of-the-year and the overall Thunder player-of-the-year.
Smale scored five half-centuries in competitive matches for Thunder in ‘24, enjoying success as an opener but also whilst batting at three and four in their order.
Two scores of particular note were 99 opening in an early-season RHFT clash with with Southern Vipers at Wormsley before hitting an unbeaten 88 from number four against Central Sparks at Edgbaston, a defeat which ended Thunder’s Charlotte Edwards hopes.
Smale warmed up for 2025 with a winter in Australia, first in Queensland grade cricket and then on an A tour with England.
Despite her tender age, she is without doubt a linchpin of Lancashire’s drive for success.
In late April 2023, aggressive right-hander Smale crashed 121 not out off 69 balls opening the batting for Lancashire women in a non-professional T20 win over Cumbria in Glasgow. It was the highest ever T20 score by any batter for the Red Rose at the time - women or men - and was the joint highest for any team in that competition.
Smale also had a distinguished junior tennis career.
It was, therefore, ironic that she would make her senior regional debut for Thunder in 2021 on the same weekend that Emma Raducanu won the US Open women’s title at Flushing Meadows in New York. Seren had previously practiced with one of Raducanu’s coaches.
Smale represented Wales Under 15s at cricket in 2018 and Lancashire Under 15s the following summer.
She has gone on to play senior county cricket for Cheshire, Cumbria, the Northern Representative XI and Lancashire.
She helped the Red Rose win the regionalised County T20 Cup competition at the start of 2022, though the strength of top order performances meant she didn’t bat in four of the six games.
Smale represented Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred in 2024 and Manchester Originals in 2025, having previously been part of the Southern Brave squad in 2023. However, she didn’t play for Brave as they won the title that year.
Smale’s first List A appearance of 2026 will be the 50th of her career.