The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has today confirmed that Yorkshire batter Harry Brook has been appointed as the new captain of the England Men’s white-ball teams.
Brook succeeds Jos Buttler, who stepped down from the role following England’s early exit from the ICC Champions Trophy last month in Pakistan.
The 26-year-old has been a key part of England’s white-ball set-up since maki
Evie Ashton has won the coveted Christopher Martin-Jenkins Young Journalist of the Year following the presentation of the 2024 Domestic Cricket Journalism Awards at Lord’s.
The new-look awards, now in their 14th year, were presented in conjunction with the Cricket Writers’ Club at the ECB Domestic Season Launch.
The awards featured three new categories – Podcast of the Year, Photo of the Yea
The England & Wales Cricket Board has today announced Charlotte Edwards as the new Head Coach of the England Women’s team.
Edwards is a former England captain who represented her country over 300 times, winning two World Cups and lifting the Ashes five times across a 20-year playing career.
Since retiring from playing in 2017, Edwards has coached across English domestic cricket and globa
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Head Coach: Ryan Campbell
2024 finish: Fifth (Division One)
2024 highest run-scorer: David Bedingham (1,331)
2024 highest wicket-taker: Matthew Potts (33)
Key winter moves: Experienced Australia A seamer Brendan Doggett has signed an overseas deal for the fir
Chair Richard Whittam KC has appointed 14 new members of the Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP), the independent tribunal which will hear and adjudicate on cases of alleged regulatory breaches in professional cricket, and decide what sanctions are appropriate for any breaches that are found to have occurred.
Anurag Singh, Christopher Coltart KC, Gareth Graham, Gemma White KC, Graeme McPherson KC, J
England Women A began their tour of Australia with a three-wicket victory over Australia Women A in their opening T20 at Hurstville Oval on Wednesday.
The tourists needed 10 runs off the final three overs and two economic overs from Tess Flintoff (four runs) and Heather Graham (three runs) set up a tense finish.
However, wicketkeeper-batter Bess Heath held her nerve, dispatching Sianna Gin
England Lions will play two four-day matches against India Men A this summer.
The first four-day match will be hosted at The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence in Canterbury from Friday 30 May. The second match is scheduled to begin a week later on Friday 6 June at the County Ground in Northampton.
The Rothesay Men’s Test series between England Men and India Men begins at Headingley on Friday 20 J
Heather Knight is to leave her role as Captain of the England Women’s cricket team after nearly nine years. She will continue to be available for England selection.
Knight has captained England Women 199 times since 2016, including leading the team to a home World Cup victory in 2017 and to two other ICC tournament finals. She oversaw 134 victories as England Women captain, second on the list o
Jon Lewis has left his role as England Women’s Head Coach.
Lewis has been in charge since November 2022, during which time England Women won 52 of their 73 matches, with the team currently second behind Australia in the ICC world rankings for IT20 and ODI cricket.
Clare Connor, ECB Managing Director, England Women, and Deputy Chief Executive Officer, said: “I’d like to thank Jon for all he h
Shakib Al Hasan’s suspension from bowling in ECB competitive county cricket and The Hundred has been lifted.
The Bangladesh all-rounder passed an independent re-assessment on his bowling action at Loughborough University earlier this month.
The re-assessment found that Shakib had remedied his action to within the prescribed 15-degree threshold as defined in the ECB Bowling Review Regulations
The England Women A squads to tour Australia have been confirmed.
The group, led by England Women A Head Coach and Performance Batting Coach Jon Lewis, will play three T20s, three 50-over matches and a four-day match against Australia A.
Returning batter Paige Scholfield, who had to withdraw from England Women’s tour to South Africa in November 2024, is named in all three squads. She is join
David Warner, Georgia Voll and Jamie Overton were three of the biggest names to be selected in The Hundred Draft today.
Australia's Georgia Voll was the first pick in the women’s competition, while big-hitting England all-rounder Jamie Overtonwent first in the men’s competition.
Legendary Australian opener David Warner will join Overton and Justin Langer in calling Lord's their new home. Eng
