Player Profile
Katie Mack arrives at Emirates Old Trafford for another spell of English domestic cricket.
The experienced Sydney-born top order batter has previously played for Essex (2012) in county cricket and for Birmingham Phoenix (2021) in the Hundred.
Mack, 30-years-old, has played exactly 250 senior career matches in List A and T20 cricket, scoring 5,986 runs. Fingers crossed, she passes the 6,000 mark on debut.
The Australian will fill Thunder’s overseas spot in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy across two spells - one at the start and again at the end. She is available for 10 group matches plus the knockout stages should the Red Rose qualify in September.
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.
In fact, she is a reigning back-to-back WBBL champion with the Strikers having won that title for the last two seasons.
Some more silverware whilst with Lancashire? Yes please.
In the most recent title success, which saw them beat Brisbane Heat in December’s 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 what she is playing for Thunder, she has scored five career centuries in her 85-match career, with her best of 140 not out coming as recently as January for the ACT in a Women’s National Cricket League clash with Victoria.
That came batting at number three in the order, a position she could well take up in Lancashire colours.
Mack has captained the Australian Capital Territory team in the WNCL competition for the last two 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 10 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.