A former MCC Young Cricketer who studied at Loughborough and has represented Warwickshire since 2008, Amy Jones suffered early in her career from going tour after tour as reserve keeper to Sarah Taylor, and played only a handful of internationals as a specialist batsman between 2013 and 2016. Included in the 2012 World Twenty20 squad, she eventually made her debut at age 19 against Sri Lanka in the 2013 Women's World Cup, and impressed, adding 83 for the sixth wicket with Jenny Gunn. However, she did not play in another ODI until January 2014.

She has been given more opportunities in Twenty20 Internationals, making her T20 debut against Pakistan in 2013, touring West Indies in late 2013 and going on to be part of the England team that finished as runners-up to Australia in the 2014 ICC Women's World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. She retained her place for the tour of New Zealand in February 2015, but played only three matches on the tour.

However she has continued to impress for the Academy, and was widely seen as unlucky to miss out on selection for the 2015 Ashes Test after making 155* in their warm-up match against the Australians. New coach Mark Robinson promoted her to open in the 2016 T20 series decider against South Africa, and in the absence of Sarah Taylor for the series against Pakistan in June 2016 she was handed the gloves as the new first choice wicketkeeper. Raf Nicholson