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  • Lions to host India A Men

    Lions to host India A Men

    England Lions will play two four-day matches against India Men A this summer.
    The first four-day match will be hosted at The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence in Canterbury from Friday 30 May. The second match is scheduled to begin a week later on Friday 6 June at the County Ground in Northampton.
    The Rothesay Men’s Test series between England Men and India Men begins at Headingley on Friday 20 J

  • 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

  • Englan Lions and Lancashire's Rocky Flintoff (Getty Images)

    England Men’s Lions Announce Squad for Australia Tour

    England Men’s Lions have confirmed a 16-player squad for their upcoming tour of Australia in January.
    The England A tour features two four-day matches against a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane, followed by a first-class Test against Australia A in Sydney.
    England Men’s Lions Squad:
    Sonny Baker (Hampshire)
    Shoaib Bashir (Somerset)
    Pat Brown (Derbyshire)
    James Coles (Sussex)
    Sa

  • England Lions Head Coach Andrew Flintoff (Getty Images)

    England Lions Announce Squad for South Africa Training Camp and Four-Day Match Against South Africa A

    The England Men's Lions have confirmed a 19-player squad to tour South Africa from 20 November to 14 December. The camp will focus on supporting the development of the highest potential players, with a focus on individualised and high-quality training. The tour will conclude with a four-day match against South Africa A in Western Province. The tour is designed to further develop England's talent p

  • England Men's Lions Head Coach, Andrew Flintoff (Getty Images)

    ECB Appoints Andrew Flintoff as England Men’s Lions Head Coach

    The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Flintoff as Head Coach of the England Men’s Lions programme for the upcoming year,
    Flintoff emerged as the standout candidate from a pool of high-calibre applicants. He will take up the role in October, overseeing a schedule which includes a tour of South Africa before Christmas, a red ball tour of Aust

  • Leicestershire seamer Josh Hull, who has earned his first England Men's senior call-up. (Getty Images)

    Mark Wood Ruled Out of Test Series Against Sri Lanka

    Mark Wood has suffered a muscle strain and is ruled out of the Test series
    Leicestershire's Josh Hull earns first call-up to England Men's Test squad
    England Men's pace bowler Mark Wood has been ruled out of the remainder of the Rothesay Test series against Sri Lanka after scans confirmed a right thigh muscle strain. Wood sustained the injury on the third day of England's five-wicket vict

  • England Lions name squad for Sri Lanka tour game

    England Lions name squad for Sri Lanka tour game

    A 12-man England Lions squad has been named for the four-day match against Sri Lanka at Visit Worcestershire New Road.

    Kasey Aldridge, Lyndon James, Ollie Price and James Rew are due to join a strong squad after they were all part of the England Lions set-up during the winter.
    England Men Under-19s quartet Farhan Ahmed, Eddie Jack, Ben McKinney and Hamza Shaikh are also included after th

  • England Men’s Elite Pace Bowling Coach Neil Killeen (right) will lead the Lions in India this month (Getty Images)

    England Lions finalise coaching team for Tour of India

    England Men’s Elite Pace Bowling Coach Neil Killeen is set to lead the England Lions on their upcoming tour of India, beginning later this week. The month-long series will feature three four-day matches against India A in Ahmedabad.
    Killeen will head up a coaching team that includes local knowledge and experience, to support the playing group's needs. Notable additions to the coaching staff inc

  • England Lions squad for India tour announced

    England Lions squad for India tour announced

    A 15-player England Lions squad will fly to India in early January for a month-long red-ball tour that coincides with the start of England Men’s five-match Test series.

    Lancashire batter Josh Bohannon will captain the squad after leading the County Championship Division One run-scoring last summer with 1257 at an average of 59.85 with four centuries.
    The Lions will be based in Ahmedabad

  • England Men's seamer Josh Tongue

    England Lions announce group for winter training camp

    England Lions have announced a 21-player group to travel to the UAE for a training camp from November 16 to December 7.
    The group, which includes 10 players (George Balderson, Shoaib Bashir, James Coles, Josh De Caires, Tom Lawes, Dan Mousley, Callum Parkinson, Rishi Patel, Ollie Price, John Turner) who are part of a Lions experience for the first time, will focus on developing their red-ball s

  • Trio appointed to England Men's scouting team

    Trio appointed to England Men's scouting team

    The England and Wales Cricket Board has appointed James Foster, Richard Scott and Owais Shah to the England Men’s scouting team.

    The trio are responsible for scouting red-ball and white-ball domestic cricket to inform selection for England Men and England Lions teams and programmes.
    Former England internationals Foster and Shah boast extensive playing and coaching experience, while forme

  • The Young Lions in action this summer. Photo: ECB Images

    Reciprocal Australia tours confirmed for England Men’s U19

    Two series between England Men’s U19 and Australia Men’s U19 have been confirmed, with the Young Lions heading to Australia in January and in turn hosting their counterparts across August and September next year.

    As part of this, the Young Lions training group for the winter has been announced, with the group having already spent two weeks together at a training camp in Abu Dhabi.
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