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  • 2025 Vitality Blast men's competition - county-by-county preview

    2025 Vitality Blast men's competition - county-by-county preview

    The Vitality Blast men's competition county-by-county preview compiled by journalists from the ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.


    NORTH GROUP
    BEARS
    Previewed by Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
    Captain: Alex Davies
    Overseas players: Tom Latham (New Zealand, full competition), Hasan Ali (Pakistan, availability tbc)
    Finals Day appearances

  • 2025 Vitality Blast women's competition - county-by-county preview

    2025 Vitality Blast women's competition - county-by-county preview

    The Vitality Blast women's competition county-by-county preview compiled by journalists from the ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.


    BEARS
    Previewed by Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
    Captain: Georgia Davis
    Overseas players: Laura Harris (Australia, full competition)
    Key winter moves: Bears entered the new era needing to keep up without t

  • ECB and 5 partner to show live international cricket on free-to-air TV

    ECB and 5 partner to show live international cricket on free-to-air TV

    As part of a four-year deal, 5 will air four live international T20 matches a year across the spring and summer months
    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has agreed a new four-year deal with 5 to bring four live international T20 cricket fixtures to free-to-air TV each year.
    As part of the deal, viewers will have the opportunity to watch and stream on 5 two international England Men’s

  • De Caires to lead PCC Select XI

    De Caires to lead PCC Select XI

    Josh De Caires will captain a Professional County Club Select XI in their four-day tour game against Zimbabwe Men at Leicester this week.
    De Caires, 23, has made 21 first-class appearances for Middlesex and leads a 13-player squad which also includes Warwickshire all-rounder Dan Mousley and Yorkshire leg-spinner Jafer Chohan.
    Mousley made his England Men’s debut during last winter’s white-ba

  • ECB and BBC announce extended TV partnership

    ECB and BBC announce extended TV partnership

    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and BBC have today announced a new extension to their strategic partnership which will see the broadcaster continuing to screen England Men’s and Women’s international highlights and live coverage of The Hundred for the next four years.
    The deal which runs from 2025-28 will see highlights of England Men’s and Women’s internationals broadcast across BBC

  • Metro Bank One-Day Cup women's competition - county-by-county previews

    Metro Bank One-Day Cup women's competition - county-by-county previews

    DURHAM
    Previewed by Graham Hardcastle - ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
    Captain: Hollie Armitage
    Head Coach: Dani Hazell
    The big questions: Durham have assembled a squad including some star signings and some smart signings. Will they be able to hit the ground running at the start of a new era for women’s cricket in the county? Spin bowling looks to be their super-strength

  • Evie Ashton wins Young Journalist of the Year

    Evie Ashton wins Young Journalist of the Year

    Evie Ashton has won the coveted Christopher Martin-Jenkins Young Journalist of the Year following the presentation of the 2024 Domestic Cricket Journalism Awards at Lord’s.
    The new-look awards, now in their 14th year, were presented in conjunction with the Cricket Writers’ Club at the ECB Domestic Season Launch.
    The awards featured three new categories – Podcast of the Year, Photo of the Yea

  • Shakib cleared to bowl in ECB competitions

    Shakib cleared to bowl in ECB competitions

    Shakib Al Hasan’s suspension from bowling in ECB competitive county cricket and The Hundred has been lifted.
    The Bangladesh all-rounder passed an independent re-assessment on his bowling action at Loughborough University earlier this month.
    The re-assessment found that Shakib had remedied his action to within the prescribed 15-degree threshold as defined in the ECB Bowling Review Regulations

  • Hampshire and England Lions seamer Sonny Baker (ECB Collection)

    Sonny Baker Awarded England Men’s Development Contract

    The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has awarded Hampshire fast bowler Sonny Baker a Men’s Development Contract, which will run until September 2025.
    Baker, 21, will join Hampshire for the start of the 2025 season after previously playing for Somerset. The pace bowler has excelled over the winter, culminating in a successful England Lions tour of Australia last month, which caught the at

  • Bidders enter exclusivity period to become partners in The Hundred teams

    Bidders enter exclusivity period to become partners in The Hundred teams

    Parties chosen after comprehensive three-round bidding process which attracted interest from around the world Subject to successful conclusion of deals, they will partner with host clubs to run each Hundred team and help realise global ambitions for the competition The eight teams have been valued at a total of just over £975m, with more than £520m set to be injected into the professional and rec

  • Surrey begin Rothesay County Championship defence with local derby

    Surrey begin Rothesay County Championship defence with local derby

    Surrey will begin their bid for a fourth successive Men's Rothesay County Championship title at local rivals Essex following release of the full 2025 county schedule.
    The fixtures for the County Championship, which will be title sponsored by Rothesay for the next three years, and Metro Bank One-Day Cup women’s and men’s competitions have today been confirmed alongside dates for the Disability P

  • Historic 2025 Vitality Blast schedule confirmed

    Historic 2025 Vitality Blast schedule confirmed

    All 18 first-class counties will host at least one women’s and men’s Vitality Blast double header next season after the schedule for a historic 2025 domestic T20 summer was revealed today.
    The 2025 season will be the first time all women’s and men’s county teams will play side by side in the Vitality Blast, the original domestic T20 cricket comptition that delivers fast-paced and explosive acti

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