The country’s second all-weather cricket dome has officially opened in Darwen, Lancashire. This state-of-the-art facility marks another important step in the ECB’s drive to expand access to cricket to more young people from all backgrounds, with a particular focus on revitalising the game in state schools.
The dome at Darwen Cricket Club offers the community a fully enclosed environment designe
Cricket fans can already start planning their 2026 summer with confirmation of the dates for next season’s men’s and women’s Vitality Blast Finals Days.
Following the success of the first-ever Vitality Blast Women’s Finals Day earlier this season, the Kia Oval will again stage the showpiece event on Friday 17 July 2026. A day later EdgBLASTon will then host its 14thsuccessive men’s Vitality Bla
England Men U19s have announced a squad with six uncapped players for the Youth One-Day Internationals against Ireland Men U19s and Bangladesh Men U19s.
Uncapped Will Bennison (Yorkshire), Jamie Feldman (Middlesex), Luke Hands (Lancashire), Joe Hawkins (Derbyshire), Manny Lumsden (Hampshire) and Jack Nelson (Middlesex) have been called into the 18-player squad.
Bennison scored a century when
2.5m fans have attended The Hundred across the first five years of the competition.
Since its launch in 2021, 1.5m of the total audience have attended the women’s competition, and 203,000 people have bought tickets to their first-ever cricket game.
In the 2025 season the women’s competition has again broken the global record for total attendance at a women’s cricket competition, with 349,401
The England Women’s selectors have named their 15-strong squad to represent England Women at the ICC Women’s World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.
The tournament runs from 30 September-2 November and will be the first ICC tournament for both Head Coach Charlotte Edwards and captain Nat Sciver-Brunt.
Sciver-Brunt’s predecessor Heather Knight has been named in the squad as she continues her comeba
The dates have been set for England Men’s white-ball tour of Sri Lanka ahead of the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
The three-match one-day international series will begin on Thursday 22 January 2026 and end on Tuesday 27 January 2026. The three-match IT20 series starts on Friday 30 January 2026 before concluding on Tuesday 3 February.
England men – Sri Lanka white-ball tour
1st ODI: Englan
England Men have named the squads for the upcoming white-ball series against South Africa and the IT20 internationals away to Ireland.
England will contest three Metro Bank One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Vitality IT20s against South Africa. The ODI series begins on Tuesday 2 September at Headingley.
The three-match IT20 series against Ireland will be staged at Malahide in Dublin wit
The Professional County Cricket Clubs (PCCs) have reached agreements to alter the formats of the Vitality Blast men’s competition, the Vitality Blast women’s competitions (Tiers 1 & 2) and the Metro Bank One-Day Cup women’s competitions (Tiers 1 & 2) from next season.
The reasons and details of those changes for each competition are outlined below:
Vitality Blast men’s competition
Glamorgan will begin the defence of their Metro Bank One-Day Cup men's competition title when the competition begins on Tuesday 5 August.
The ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay has identified the players to watch, and young guns to keep an eye on, as they look at each county’s hopes of lifting the 50-over trophy when the final is staged at Trent Bridge on Saturday 20 September.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today confirmed a landmark achievement in the evolution of The Hundred, with deals now complete with the first six strategic partners for The Hundred teams.
The remaining two are set for formal completion at a later date. They remain on track, in line with the ECB having offered investors the option of completing later.
This pivotal moment sees The H
Surrey Women (154-5) beat Bears Women (153-9) by 5 wickets.
Surrey Women were crowned champions of the first-ever Vitality Blast women’s competition after a convincing five-wicket win over the Bears Women at the Kia Oval.
Grace Harris led the way for the hosts with a match-winning 63* from just 33 balls, guiding Surrey to victory with 20 balls to spare.
Having defeated The Blaze in the El
Bears Women (163-8) beat The Blaze (143ao) by 20 runs.
Bears Women overcame defending short-format champions The Blaze, in the Vitality Blast Women’s Eliminator at the Kia Oval to secure their place in the final later this afternoon.
Player of the match, Bears' Issy Wong, top scored with 59 and bowled an impressive 4-19.
Opting to bat first, the Bears lost early wickets—Davina Perrin f
