Southern Vipers 110-4 beat Central Sparks 109-8 by six wickets
Charlie Dean was Player of the Match as Southern Vipers won the Charlotte Edwards Cup by six wickets at Northampton.
Dean - who had earlier taken the key wickets of Eve Jones and Amy Jones - and Ella McClaughan (30*) put on 41 for the fifth wicket as Vipers won their first Charlotte Edwards Cup title, to join the two Rachael Heyh
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A nail-biting, one-run defeat under the lights for England’s Learning Disability side kept hosts Australia’s hopes of a share of the Commonwealth Bank International Inclusion Series alive.
Targeting 124 to go 4-0 up at the halfway point of their eight-game rubber after an impressive 49-run win in the morning’s first T20 meeting, Chris Edwards’ men fell agonisingly short at the Nati
The Hundred Overseas Wildcard Draft has seen yet more international men’s and women’s superstars sign up to take part in The Hundred this summer. In a world first for cricket, overseas men’s and women’s players have been drafted together ahead of an exciting summer of world-class sport and family-friendly entertainment.
The big signings include:
Oval Invincibles selected Pakistan quick
England Women’s Senior Assistant Coach Tim Macdonald is to leave his role in order to return home and take up a job with Perth Scorchers and Western Australia men’s teams.
Macdonald, who played first-class cricket for his native Western Australia, as well as Tasmania, will move on after England Women’s Commonwealth Games campaign in August to take up the role of Senior Assistant Coach – Bowling
Welsh Fire have appointed former Gloucestershire and England all-rounder Mark Alleyne as an assistant coach for the men’s team in The Hundred.
Alleyne is currently an ECB Test scout and Assistant Director of Sport at Marlborough College and travelled with the England men’s IT20 squad as a support coach during their recent tour of the West Indies.
Renowned for his success as a player in one-
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England’s two-pronged Ashes attack got off to a dream start in the International Commonwealth Bank Series, with a clean sweep in three T20s for the Learning Disability and Deaf XIs in Brisbane.
The LD lads will be particularly pleased with their day’s work on a sluggish, tacky surface which offered plenty to keep the bowlers interested.
Chris Edwards’ LD charges won back-to-bac
England Men's selection panel have named a 14-strong squad for the three-match ODI series of The Netherlands starting at Amstelveen on 17 June.
England ODI Squad
Eoin Morgan (Middlesex) Captain
Moeen Ali (Worcestershire)
Jos Buttler (Lancashire)
Brydon Carse (Durham
Sam Curran (Surrey)
Liam Livingstone (Lancashire)
Dawid Malan (Yorkshire)
David Payne (Gloucestershire)
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is today publishing the third update on the implementation of cricket’s action plan to tackle racism and promote inclusion and diversity at all levels of the game.
Since the previous update on 1 April 2022, the ECB has continued to work with stakeholders across the game to deliver further progress against the measures announced as part of the action pla
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today launched a new international men’s and women’s red ball cricket campaign, ‘It’s Called Test For A Reason’. It is timed to celebrate the long-form format throughout the international summer, including the eagerly anticipated England Men v New Zealand Men LV= Insurance Test Series, which starts on 2 June at Lord’s, the England Women v South Africa Women LV
Ollie Robinson and Dom Sibley have been selected to the County Select XI squad that will play New Zealand in a four-day match at the Cloud County Ground, Chelmsford from Thursday.
Robinson and Sibley are the two England capped players in a 12-man squad that will be overseen by ECB Elite Performance Pathway Coach, Richard Dawson.
Kent opening batter Ben Compton, who leads the run-scoring in
A new high of 14m played, attended or followed cricket in 2021, an increase of 3m since 2019. Over £10m invested across professional and recreational games last year for capital projects Over £16m distributed in revenue grants across the recreational cricket network In the year ended 31st January 2022, turnover was £303m, an increase of £96m as compared to the prior year. Profit before tax was £2
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced today that it has appointed Matthew Mott as England Men's White-Ball Head Coach.
Mott, 48, has signed a four-year agreement and is expected to be in place for England's three-match ODI series against The Netherlands in Amsterdam next month.
The ECB's selection panel of Chief Executive Officer Tom Harrison, Managing Director of England's Men
