Freya Kemp made her England T20I debut against South Africa on 25 July 2022 and announced herself immediately with 2 wickets for 18 runs. What began as a first look at a teenage all-rounder has turned into a body of work that makes her one of England’s more established white-ball options.
That is why Kemp is back in view now. She has played 28 WT20Is, scored 197 runs at an average of 21.88 and taken 21 wickets, numbers that go beyond promise and into selection relevance. Her T20I best with the bat is 51 not out, she has one half-century, and her best bowling figures are 2 for 14.
Kemp’s breakthrough year came in 2022, when she became the youngest England woman to score a fifty in T20Is and finished as England’s highest wicket-taker during the Commonwealth Games. Those markers mattered because they showed an all-round game arriving early: left-arm bowling that could control a spell and batting that could lift an innings when England needed it.
She has also built that profile away from the international stage. Kemp played for Sussex in domestic cricket before becoming a regular for Southern Vipers and Southern Brave, and she has since added overseas experience with Perth Scorchers Women in the Women’s Big Bash League. For Southern Brave, she has played 34 matches and scored 320 runs. For Perth Scorchers Women, she made 193 runs with a strike rate above 147, a useful sign of the pace she can bring to the middle and lower order.
The story has not been linear. Injuries slowed Kemp early in her career, even as she kept pushing her way into England’s plans and into the top tier of young all-rounders. That matters because her record was built while she was still dealing with the stop-start reality that can unsettle a player’s rhythm, particularly one trying to do two jobs in the same side.
Her recent form has also kept her in the frame. In England’s T20I series against New Zealand in May 2026, Kemp scored 31 not out, 20 and 14, a reminder that she is still adding runs in pressure overs as well as offering bowling cover. England have not confirmed any selection call for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026, but Kemp’s record makes her hard to ignore. She is no longer just a young player with a future; she is already a white-ball cricketer whose numbers say she belongs in the present.
