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  • Ground-breaking ECB and Microsoft partnership to unlock new opportunities across the whole game

    Technology at heart of delivering long-lasting change in purpose-led partnership Digital Skills training to be provided to cricket communities to support growth and employment opportunities England’s elite teams to benefit from innovative technology to inform performance Partnership set to redefine sport-technology relationships across the world
    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and M

  • ECB confirm Vitality Blast and Royal London Cup fixtures

    Champions Notts Outlaws visit Worcestershire Rapids on 9 June to start Vitality Blast Vitality Blast returns to 14-game group-stage format with Edgbaston to host Finals Day on 18 September Royal London Cup returns to schedule from 22 July with final to be staged at Trent Bridge on 19 August Fixtures for women’s Regional 50 over and T20 competitions to be announced soon National Counties to play

  • ​More than 55 players confirmed for The Hundred as men’s retention window slams shut

    Overseas stars including Aaron Finch, Amelia Kerr, Andre Russell, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Dane Van Niekerk, Kane Williamson and Glenn Maxwell sign up Sam Billings, Freya Davies, Alex Hartley and Mark Wood among England players confirmed Men’s retained players confirmed ahead of the men’s draft picks being announced on 23 February Women’s squads to be finalised over the coming months
    The final retai

  • England Men to begin summer against top-ranked New Zealand

    England Men begin summer with LV= Insurance Test Series against New Zealand Three-match Vitality IT20 Series included into Sri Lanka’s tour of England and Wales
    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed that England Men will start their home international summer with a LV= Insurance Test Series against New Zealand.
    Joe Root’s team will play two LV= Insurance Test Matches agai

  • ​National Selectors name Test squad for first and second Tests in India

    The England National Selectors have named a 16-strong squad and six travelling reserves for the first and second Test matches against India starting on Friday 5th February at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.
    England Men’s Test Squad:
    Joe Root (Yorkshire) (captain), Jofra Archer (Sussex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Dom Bess (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamsh

  • CDC revise Somerset sanction ahead of remodelled LV= Insurance County Championship

    The Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) has revised Somerset County Cricket Club’s sanction for breaching the ECB Pitch Regulations.
    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Somerset CCC jointly requested that the CDC reconsider the points deduction imposed in view of the remodelled 2021 LV= Insurance County Championship format.
    A CDC Panel subsequently determined how the sanction will

  • England and international stars sign up for The Hundred

    Bairstow, Gordon, Malan and Roy retained Overseas stars Du Preez, Kapp, Lee, Nabi, Narine and Tryon confirmed The final retained players for the men’s competition will be announced on 4 Feb deadline day
    A host of star names have put pen to paper to play in The Hundred this year, with over 100 players now confirmed for the new, action-packed 100-ball competition.
    Welsh Fire have confi

  • ECB and LV= General Insurance launch multi-year partnership

    LV= General Insurance to become the title partner for England Men’s and Women’s domestic Test Series – including the 2023 Ashes Series – and the County Championship for the next three years Today’s announcement follows last November’s launch of #Funds4Runs, a £1million joint investment between the ECB and LV= General Insurance to support focus areas of the grassroots cricket community impacted by

  • England Women to tour Pakistan in October

    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today confirmed that England Women will tour Pakistan in October, taking part in two IT20s and three ODIs.
    Heather Knight's team will be making their first-ever trip to Pakistan, and will be alongside the England Men's white-ball team, with the two IT20s played as double-headers in Karachi on 14 and 15 October.
    Englan

  • Media Statement

    Following PCR tests administered on arrival at the airport in Hambantota on Sunday 3rd January, The England and Wales Cricket Board can confirm that Moeen Ali has tested positive for COVID-19.
    Ali will now observe a period of 10-days self-isolation, in accordance with the Sri Lanka Government’s protocol on quarantine.
    Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and he will obse

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