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  • England Women U19 announce squad for ICC U19 Women's T20 World Cup 2023

    England Women U19 have announced their 15-player squad for the ICC U19 Women's T20 World Cup 2023.
    It's the first time the best U19 cricketers have come together from the women’s game to compete in an ICC Global Event. The tournament will be hosted by South Africa, and sees 16 countries competing from January 14 to January 29.In addition to the 11 Full ICC Members, there are five Associates in

  • Matt Mason appointed England Women Fast Bowling Coach

    Matt Mason has been appointed as England Women Fast Bowling Coach.
    The 48-year-old, who took over 400 wickets in a 15-year professional career, is a highly respected coach in the men's game. He joins from Warwickshire, having previously worked in similar roles at Western Australia, Perth Scorchers, Leicestershire and Worcestershire.
    Mason spent nine years at Worcestershire - and was part of

  • England Men name Test squad for tour of Pakistan

    England Men's selection panel have named a 15-strong squad for the three-match Test tour of Pakistan starting in December. England Men's Test squad:Ben Stokes (Durham) captainJames Anderson (Lancashire)Harry Brook (Yorkshire)Zak Crawley (Kent)Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)Ben Foakes (Surrey)Will Jacks (Surrey)Keaton Jennings (Lancashire)Jack Leach (Somerset)Liam Livingstone (Lancashire)Jamie Overto

  • ECB announces England Men's Central Contract offers for 2022-23

    The England and Wales Cricket Board has announced the Central Contract offers for England Men's international cricket for the year from 1 October 2022.The system, which covers both red-ball and white-ball players, takes into account the likelihood of players featuring in England teams across formats in the next 12 months, whilst also recognising performances in the preceding year.In total 30 playe

  • Five former and current players reprimanded by CDC for non-recent social media posts

    The Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) has today published its decisions in relation to charges brought by the ECB against five former and current professional cricketers related to non-recent social media posts.
    Each of Jack Brooks, Andrew Gale, Evelyn Jones, Azeem Rafiq and Danielle Wyatt admitted their breach of ECB Directive 3.3 which states: “No such person may conduct themself in a manne

  • CDC impose 10-point deduction on Durham

    Durham have accepted a 10-point deduction from the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) after batter Nic Maddinson admitted a breach of ECB Directives 3.2 and 3.3.
    Maddinson used a bat which failed a bat-gauge test during Durham’s LV= Insurance County Championship match against Derbyshire on 6 September 2022.
    The CDC considered the points put in mitigation by Durham CCC and Maddinson, that th

  • ECB reports further progress to promote equity across cricket

    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is today (29 September 2022) setting out the continued progress that cricket is making in its commitment to promote equity, diversity and inclusion at all levels of the game.
    Since the announcement of cricket’s game-wide action plan in November 2021, the ECB has continued to work with County organisations and other partners to combat racism and ensure t

  • India win at Lord's to seal 3-0 series victory

    India Women 169 beat England Women 153 by 19 runs
    India Women won the final Royal London International at Lord's to seal a 3-0 series win.
    Kate Cross took 4-26 as England's bowlers did a fine job to bowl India out for 169, but in reply England faltered and fell 19 runs short, despite a fine, spirited 47 from Charlie Dean.
    It left India - celebrating Jhulan Goswami's final game after 20 ye

  • Over 2,000 more South Asian women now volunteering in cricket as Dream Big programme reaches landmark

    Dream Big Desi Women programme has now recruited and trained over 2,000 South Asian female cricket volunteers Culmination of a four-year, £2.4 million Sport England-funded programme, delivered by The ECB Volunteers deliver cricket programmes for children across urban areas, giving opportunities for thousands more youngsters to get involved in the sport Celebration of programme’s success taking p

  • Men's High Performance Review publishes final report

    Final report features 17 recommendations to enable sustained success for England men’s teams and a thriving domestic game ECB Board and Executive endorse all recommendations in final report 15 of the 17 recommendations fall to the ECB to implement Decisions over proposals for changes to the men’s domestic competitions and schedule will be for the First-Class Counties to decide upon Review recomme

  • Kaur century drives India Women to Royal London Series win

    India Women 333-5 beat England Women 245 by 88 runs
    Harmanpreet Kaur's 143 not out led India to a series win in the second Royal London International at Canterbury. 
    After putting India into bat, England's bowlers kept things tight initially before Kaur, Harleen Doel (58) and Smriti Mandhana (40) took India to the very imposing total of 333-5.
    It was always going to be tough for England t

  • Fixtures announced for Men’s and Women’s Ashes in 2023

    England Women will take on Australia Women at Lord’s, the Kia Oval, Edgbaston, The Ageas Bowl, Trent Bridge, the Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol, and Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton, in 2023 as both the Men’s and Women’s Ashes come to England and Wales.
    Ben Stokes’s team will host Ireland at Lord’s in the first week of June before the 73rd LV= Insurance Men’s Ashes series gets underway at

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