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Please note the following media and training arrangements ahead of the second Specsavers Test between England and India at Lord’s.
N.B. Media timings are approximate. Please be in place 30 minutes before advertised timings. Timings are (BST).
Tuesday August 7, Lord’s
9.30am-12.30pm: India practice
12.30pm: England media opportunity
England make two changes to their squad for the second Specsavers Test at Lord's.
England Test squad players, Moeen Ali and Jamie Porter have been released to play in the Vitality Blast this week.
Moeen will play for the Worcestershire Rapids in two matches against Durham Jets on Friday, August 3 and away to Notts Outlaws at Trent Bridge on Saturday, August 4.
Porter, the Essex seamer, will leave Edgbaston at close today and feature for the Eagles against Kent Spitfires a
England cricket fans have voted for their best-ever men’s Test XI to celebrate the 1000th England men’s Test match at Edgbaston, starting on Wednesday 1st August.
Cricket fans from across the country were invited to pick their team from over 100 players ranging from W.G. Grace in the 1880s to current Test captain Joe Root in a survey completed by over 6,000 England cricket fans.
After two w
England will become the first test team to play 1000 men’s Test matches
Team
Played
Won
Lost
Tied
Drawn
PercWon
W/L Ratio
England 999 357 297 0 345 35.73 1.20 Australia 812 383 219 2 208 47.16 1.74 West Indies 535 171 188 1 175 31.96 0.90 India 522 145 160
Please note the following media and training arrangements ahead of the first Specsavers Test between England and India at Edgbaston.
N.B. Media timings are approximate. Please be in place 30 minutes before advertised timings. Timings are (BST).
Monday July 30, Edgbaston
9.30am-12.30pm: India practice
12.30pm: England media opportunity
12.45pm: India media opportunity
1.30pm-4.30p
ECB is once again supporting Stonewall's Rainbow Laces campaign for LGBT inclusion in sport.
England name a 13-man squad for the first Specsavers Test match against India. Yorkshire’s Adil Rashid returns to the squad along with Moeen Ali. Essex’s Jamie Porter included for the first time.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced the appointment of Meena Botros to the role of Director of Legal & Integrity.
In the newly created role Meena will be responsible for all of ECB’s legal and integrity matters, advising on commercial arrangements and ensuring measures in the professional and recreational game meet the highest regulatory standards.
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The ECB David English Bunbury Festival - as it's now known - is for the first time officially under the auspices of the ECB.
ECB today announced its Men’s Major Match schedule for 2019 which will include a public ballot for all Specsavers Ashes Test Matches for the first time.
Each host Ashes venue will release tickets via their own public ballot to meet the anticipated high demand for tickets to watch England’s bid to regain the Ashes.
Key highlights include:
England vs Ireland Test Match: England’
Below is a round-up of Fixed Penalty Directive breaches from June 25 - July 16.
Stuart Whittingham was reported by umpires Martin Saggers and Billy Taylor during Sussex’s Specsavers County Championship match against Nottinghamshire on 25 - 28 June 2018. The Cricket Liaison Officer, Tim Boon, determined that Whittingham had committed a Level 1 breach of the Directives (bowling a dangerous or unf
