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  • Second year of The Hundred sees even more families watching live cricket as attendance tops 500,000

    The Hundred continues to take cricket to new audiences with more women (28%), children (22%), and families (41%) attending than in the first year 2022 once again set a new global record for total attendance at a women’s cricket competition, with record crowds at every venue and the domestic attendance record being broken twice Of the Sky and BBC TV audience, 42% hadn’t watched any other ECB crick

  • Bairstow ruled out of the third Test and ICC Men's T20 World Cup

    England and Yorkshire batter Jonathan Bairstow has been ruled out of the rest of the summer and the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup after sustaining a lower limb injury in a freak accident whilst playing golf on Friday in Leeds. He will see a specialist next week to ascertain the full extent of the injury.
    Nottinghamshire batter Ben Duckett has been added to the Test squad for the LV= Insurance third

  • Squads named for ICC Men's T20 World Cup and Tour of Pakistan

    England Men's selection panel have named squads for the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia starting in October and the preceding seven-match tour of Pakistan, which gets underway later this month in Karachi.
    England ICC Men's T20 World Cup Squad & Three-Match IT20 Series versus Australia
    (15 players & three travelling reserves)
    Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain
    Moeen Ali (Worce

  • ECB Board Member, Brenda Trenowden CBE passes away

    The England and Wales Cricket Board is today immensely saddened following the death of Brenda Trenowden CBE.
    Brenda, who had been battling against the rare cancer pseudomyxoma peritonei, has served for five years on the ECB Board as a senior independent non-executive director.
    She recently led the Nominations Committee that appointed Richard Thompson as the ECB’s new Chair and was a consiste

  • Pictures: Cricket celebrates Rainbow Laces

    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

  • ECB to celebrate Rainbow Laces

    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

  • Schedule confirmed for England Men’s Test Tour of Pakistan

    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

  • ENGLAND MEDIA & TRAINING SCHEDULE: LV= Insurance Second Test versus South Africa

    All timings are (BST) and approximate. Please be in place a minimum of 30 mins before the advertised time.
    All timings are subject to change

    Time

    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 professional player Ryan Davies receives suspended ban

    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

  • Young Lions squad confirmed for opening U19s Test

    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 deducted two points after accepting charge

    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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  • CDC Panel impose two-point penalty on Durham

    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

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