Please find pictures available to use from across cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign.
Players taking part in the LV= Insurance Test between England Men and South Africa Men, The Hundred and the Royal London Cup wore Rainbow Laces to encourage and celebrate LGBTQ+ participation in cricket.
It’s the fifth time cricket has supported Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces campaign, and the first time it has ex
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) are supporting Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces campaign across 25 August-28 August.
It is the fifth time the game has come together to celebrate and encourage LGBTQ+ participation in cricket. The campaign will run across Royal London Cup quarter-finals, The Hundred and – and for the first time – the England Men’s LV= Insurance Test match against South Afr
England Men are scheduled to play three Test matches in Pakistan this December after the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed the tour dates.
The tourists will return to Pakistan for the first time since 2005 and will play the first Test at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Thursday 1 December 2022. It will be the first time England have played a Test match in the city.
The second Test moves t
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Activity
Location
Tuesday 23 August
12.30pm
England Media Opportunity
Media opp with player/coach at the venue. Location TBC.
Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester
Former county cricketer Ryan Davies has received a six-month suspended ban after an investigation by the ECB.
Davies, who has not played first-class cricket since 2018, admitted to charges relating to a series of bets that he placed on cricket matches between 2015 and 2020. Davies placed a total of 181 bets, which breached Article 2.2.1 of the relevant ECB Anti-Corruption Codes that were in
The England Men’s U19 selectors have named a 13-player squad for the first of their two LV= Insurance U19 Tests against Sri Lanka U19 starting on Sunday.
Durham’s Ben McKinney has been appointed as captain for the four-day fixture at the Cloud County Ground, Chelmsford.
Squad: Ben McKinney (Durham – captain), Tom Aspinwall (Lancashire), George Bell (Lancashire), Tommy Boorman (Gloucester
Derbyshire County Cricket Club has received a two-point deduction after the club admitted to a charge relating to its Royal London Cup match against Hampshire on Friday, 12 August.
All-rounder Mattie McKiernan was charged and accepted a breach of Directives 3.2 and 3.3 of the Directives of the ECB after he used a cricket bat which failed a bat-gauge test during and after the match.
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The Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) has imposed a two-point sanction on Durham, which is imposed immediately to the club’s Royal London Cup points tally.
The CDC Panel invoked the points deduction following a hearing after Durham had received seven fixed penalty breaches between June 2021 and June 2022.
Durham had previously been handed a suspended points deduction by the CDC Chair o
Adam Lyth has been suspended from bowling in ECB competitions following an independent assessment of his bowling action conducted at Loughborough University.
The suspension follows the process set out in the ECB’s Regulations for the Review of Bowlers Reported with a Suspected Illegal Bowling Action.
The bowling action of Lyth, who plays for Yorkshire and Northern Superchargers, was repo
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have announced that England Women’s Head Coach Lisa Keightley is to leave her role at the end of the summer after informing the ECB she wouldn’t be seeking a contract extension.
Keightley has been in the role since January 2020, taking the team to the semi-final of the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup and the final of the 2022 ICC Women’s World Cup.
New Zealand 111-2 beat Team England 110-9 by eight wickets
Team England's cricketers missed out on a medal at the Commonwealth Games after New Zealand comfortably won the Bronze Medal match at Edgbaston by eight wickets.
Nat Sciver's side - who lost their semi-final to India yesterday - could only post 110-9 after choosing to bat first and New Zealand had few issues chasing it down, doing so
India 164-5 beat Team England 161-6 by 4 runs
India won the Commonwealth Games semi-final to deny Team England's cricketers a place in the final and a shot at the gold medal.
In front of another massive Edgbaston crowd, India posted 164-5 - thanks in main to a fine innings of 61 from Smriti Mandhana - and England fell four runs short.
Nat Sciver's side will compete for the bronze medal to
