Headed by PCA Chair James Harris, and supported by elected Vice Chairs Anuj Dal and Heather Knight, player representatives covering the 18 first-class counties, the eight women’s regional centres, as well as the England men’s and women’s squads make up the PCA Players’ Committee. This important group of players has the ability to vote on all issues affecting the whole of the PCA membership. Each representative is also the voice of the PCA in dressing rooms across the country.
What Does The PCA Committee Do?
Reps are responsible for communicating PCA topics of discussion to their fellow teammates in their dressing rooms and liaising back to the PCA as well as raising any concerns within their team environment. Being the voice in the dressing room, reps actively promote the PCA aims and objectives to work as a collective to champion on the ongoing rights of professional players in England and Wales.
The Chair - James Harris
James Harris is the Chair of the Professional Cricketers’ Association, having initially been elected in February 2021 through a ballot of all PCA members. He was re-elected for a second and final two-year term in February 2023, taking his tenure up until the 2025 AGM.
Harris has been on the PCA Players’ Committee since 2017, when he became Middlesex’s representative and assumed the Chair position from the outgoing Daryl Mitchell, who is now the PCA’s Chief Operating Officer. As Chair, Harris represents the collective voice of professional players in the country by sitting on the ECB Cricket Committee along with PCA Chief Executive Rob Lynch to make sure player views are represented.
The Chair holds a position on the PCA Board and is also a Director of the Professional Cricketers’ Trust overseeing the overall direction of the association. If you would like to pass on any thoughts to James, please email james.harris@thepca.co.uk.
Vice Chairs
Heather Knight
England Women
Anuj Dal
Derbyshire
PCA Committee Reps
Eve Jones
Central Sparks
Anuj Dal
Derbyshire
Ben Raine
Durham
Chris Woakes
England Men’s
Kate Cross
England Women’s
Sam Cook
Essex
Kiran Carlson
Glamorgan (joint)
Timm van der Gugten
Glamorgan (joint)
David Payne
Gloucestershire (joint)
Miles Hammond
Gloucestershire (joint)
Chris Wood
Hampshire
Marcus O’Riordan
Kent
Will Williams
Lancashire
Harry Swindells
Leicestershire
Martin Andersson
Middlesex
Rob Keogh
Northamptonshire
Katie Levick
Northern Diamonds
Lyndon James
Nottinghamshire (joint)
Matthew Montgomery
Nottinghamshire (joint)
Ben Green
Somerset
Aylish Cranstone
South East Stars
Georgia Elwiss
Southern Vipers
Amara Carr
Sunrisers
Matt Dunn
Surrey (joint)
Dan Worrall
Surrey (joint)
Tom Alsop
Sussex (joint)
Fynn Hudson-Prentice
Sussex (joint)
Lucy Higham
The Blaze
Phoebe Graham
Thunder
Oliver Hannon-Dalby
Warwickshire
Sophie Luff
Western Storm
Joe Leach
Worcestershire
Jonny Tattersall
Yorkshire
Women's Player Committee
In 2021, the PCA Players’ Committee voted to approve the creation of a new Women’s Player Committee. The body consists of 11 individuals, including eight reps from the regional centres, the women’s Vice Chair, the England captain or vice-captain and the PCA England rep. The group has voting rights on specific women’s only issues within the game.
Eve Jones
Central Sparks
Kate Cross
England Women
Heather Knight
England Women
Nat Sciver-Brunt
England Women
Katie Levick
Northern Diamonds
Aylish Cranstone
South East Stars
Georgia Elwiss
Southern Vipers
Amara Carr
Sunrisers
Lucy Higham
The Blaze
Phoebe Graham
Thunder
Sophie Luff
Western Storm