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  • 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

  • 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

  • Mandhana leads India to win in series opener at Hove

    India Women 232-3 beat England Women 226-7 by 7 wickets
    Smriti Mandhana's 91 saw India to victory in the first Royal London International at Hove.
    After being asked to bat first, England posted 227 in the first innings thanks in main to Alice Davidson-Richards' maiden ODI half-century. Cameos from Sophie Ecclestone (31), Sophia Dunkley (29) and Charlie Dean (29*) gave Amy Jones's team someth

  • Alice Capsey and Freya Kemp earn first England Women ODI call-ups

    Alice Capsey and Freya Kemp have earned their first call-ups to England Women’s ODI squad for the Royal London Series against India.
    A squad of 15 has been named for the three-match series, which will be England’s first fixtures in the new ICC Women’s Championship cycle, with points leading to qualification for the ICC Women’s World Cup in 2025.
    Amy Jones will continue to lead the side in th

  • Nottinghamshire CCC becomes Regional Host for the East Midlands

    Following a tender process, Nottinghamshire CCC has been announced as the Regional Host for the East Midlands in the Women’s Regional Structure.
    From November 1, Nottinghamshire CCC will replace Loughborough University who have been one of the eight Regional Hosts since the structure came into place in 2019.
    In conjunction with the ECB, Loughborough University have decided that the future de

  • Alice Capsey guides England Women to Vitality IT20 series win

    England Women 126-3 beat India Women 122-8 by seven wickets
    Alice Capsey's unbeaten 38 guided England Women to victory at Bristol and with it secured a 2-1 series win in the Vitality IT20 series for Amy Jones's depleted team.
    The bowlers put in a fine team performance to restrict India to 122-8. Sophie Ecclestone was the pick of the attack with 3-25 and she was awarded Player of the Match, b

  • India Women level the IT20 series at Derby

    India Women 146-2 beat England Women 142-6 by eight wickets
    India Women levelled the Vitality IT20 series at Derby with a resounding eight-wicket win, despite a record-breaking half-century for 17-year-old Freya Kemp.
    England opted to bat first but got off to a poor start, falling to 54-5. Kemp and Maia Bouchier (34), teammates at Southern Vipers, put on 64 for the sixth wicket to take the h

  • CDC impose six-point sanction on Lancashire

    Lancashire has received a six-point deduction in the LV= Insurance County Championship, following a hearing of a Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) panel.
    The CDC panel hearing was convened after Lancashire had incurred two Fixed Penalties within 12 months of being handed a suspended sanction on 10 November 2021.
    The fixed penalties were incurred in Lancashire’s County Championship matches

  • England Women win opening IT20 at Durham

    England Women 133-1 beat India 132-7 by nine wickets
    Sarah Glenn took career-best figures of 4-23 and Sophia Dunkley hit her highest IT20 score of 61* as England Women beat India Women by nine wickets at Durham.
    Stand-in captain Amy Jones won the toss and asked India to bat, and her bowlers kept the visitors down to 132-7.
    In reply, Dunkley and Danni Wyatt (24) put on 60 before No.3 Alice

  • Nat Sciver to miss India series

    England Women all-rounder Nat Sciver has decided to withdraw from England Women’s Vitality IT20 Series and Royal London Series against India to focus on her mental health and wellbeing. The 30-year-old left Durham today to return home.
    Amy Jones will captain throughout the Vitality IT20 series in Sciver’s absence, and a replacement player will be named in the squad ahead of the second Vitality

  • Alex Hales added to England Men's T20 World Cup squad

    Nottinghamshire batter Alex Hales has been called up to England's ICC Men's T20 World Cup squad as a replacement for Yorkshire's Jonathan Bairstow after a left ankle injury sustained last week ended his chances of playing in the tournament.Hales, 33, who last represented England in March 2019, has also been added to the IT20 squad for the tour of Pakistan. EndsEngland ICC Men's T20 World Cup Squad

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