The Hundred is back for its fifth year after breaking more records in 2024 Lord’s to host first and last game of the competition, with a London derby kicking off the 2025 season and The Hundred Final taking place on Sunday 31 August Laura Wolvaardt and Amelia Kerr confirmed as first-ever direct signings From today, season tickets available to 2024 multiple match ticket-buyers or previous season t
Entries for the ECB Domestic Cricket Journalism Awards have opened with three new categories included.
The new categories are Podcast of the Year, Photograph of the Year and Video Content Creator of the Year as the Awards aim to recognise the wider media landscape covering domestic cricket.
The awards are now in their 14th year and are again set to be presented at the ECB’s Domestic Season L
England were beaten in their third Ashes T20 as they were bowled out for 90 in a 72-run defeat in Adelaide.
Australia opener Beth Mooney made an unbeaten 94 from 63 balls as the hosts finished on 162-5.
Youngster Georgia Voll was caught off Alice Capsey after an opening stand of 56, Sophie Ecclestone removed Phoebe Litchfield for 12 and Ellyse Perry was dismissed by Charlie Dean.
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Australia won a tense rain-affected Women’s Ashes encounter by six runs in the second T20 to complete an outright series victory.
Set 186 to win in Canberra, England needed 18 from the last five balls with captain Heather Knight unbeaten on 43 before heavy rain fell and no further play was possible. England finished on 168-4, six runs short of the required score set by the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern
Australia retained the Women's Ashes with a 57-run victory over England in the first T20 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Set a target of 199 to win, the tourists fell to 141 all out in 16 overs.
Sophia Dunkley scored 59 from 30 balls but the last seven wickets fell for 45 runs as leg-spinners Alana King and Georgia Wareham took two and three wickets respectively. Openers Maia Bouchier and Dann
England Women suffered a 86-run defeat to Australia in their third and final One Day International Ashes match in Hobart.
Ash Gardner hit her maiden international century while half-centuries from Beth Mooney and Tahlia McGrath saw their side post 308-8.
England started brightly, openers Phoebe Litchfield and Alyssa Healy both dismissed for 15 by Lauren Filer and Nat Sciver-Brunt respectivel
England Women suffered a 21-run defeat in a nail-biting second ODI Ashes encounter against Australia at the Junction Oval, Melbourne.
England, who won the toss and elected to field, bowled Australia out for 180 inside 45 overs, with spinner Sophie Ecclestone taking 4-35 and Alice Capsey impressing with 3-22.
The hosts lost their last eight wickets for just 49 runs after Capsey removed Ellyse
England were beaten by four wickets in their first One Day International of the Women's Ashes against Australia in Sydney.
Australia's Ash Gardner took 3-19 as England were bowled out for 203, and then scored an unbeaten 42 to lead her side to victory with 11.1 overs to spare.
The home side won the toss and elected to bowl.
After Maia Bouchier's early dismissal, captain Heather Knight (39
Somerset all-rounder Archie Vaughan will captain England Men U19s for the first time on their upcoming tour of South Africa.
Vaughan will lead an 18-man squad across three Youth ODIs and two Youth Test matches.
The squad will fly out on Thursday 9 January with the opening Youth ODI at Cape Town on Friday 17 January. The two-match Test series begins in Stellenbosch on Sunday 26 January before
England Men's Test captain Ben Stokes has been ruled out of all cricket for at least three months after further assessments confirmed he has torn his left hamstring. The Durham all-rounder will undergo surgery in January.
The injury occurred during the third Test in Hamilton, during England's recent 2-1 Test series victory in New Zealand.
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England Women have named their squads for the 2025 Women’s Ashes in Australia, which begins next month.
Heather Knight will captain the groups who will contest a multi-format series that includes three One Day Internationals and three T20s (each worth two points) and a four-day Test-match (worth four points).
All-rounder Freya Kemp and spinner Linsey Smith (both T20 squad only) and wicketk
The England Men’s selection panel has named the squads for next month’s white-ball tour of India, which includes three ODIs, five IT20s, and the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025, hosted by Pakistan in February and March 2025.
Both squads feature 15 players, marking the first tour and tournament under Head Coach Brendon McCullum.
England Men’s ODI Squad – India Tour & ICC Men’s Champions T
