Six other top-class venues confirmed for expanded 12-team tournament that will see a total of 33 matches played over 24 days
The final of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 will be held at Lord’s on Sunday 5 July, it has been announced.
Lord’s, which was also the venue for the thrilling final of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup between England and India in 2017, is one of seven venues conf
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has today confirmed that all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt has been appointed as the new captain of the England Women’s team.
Sciver-Brunt succeeds Heather Knight, who left her role following England’s 2025 Women’s Ashes series after a near nine-year tenure and will lead in all three formats working alongside recently appointed head coach Charlotte Edwards.
KP Snacks becomes Official Team Partner of England Cricket, featuring on the sleeve of the new England match and training shirts The partnership’s vision is to encourage healthier lifestyles and inspire more people to get involved with cricket, aiming to create a million opportunities for people to get active by 2033 This partnership is in addition to the existing KP Snacks partnership of The Hun
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Castore have launched three new playing kits and training wear to be worn by the three England teams across a huge summer of cricket.
The new Test, ODI and IT20 kits were revealed in a ‘A Call To All’ video featuring England legend Andrew Flintoff alongside Lauren Bell, Anthony Clapham, Zak Crawley, Jonny Gale, Ollie Pope and Danni Wyatt-Hodge.
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Toyota becomes the new Principal Partner of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), supporting professional and grassroots men's, women's and disability teams Toyota launches its Good For Cricket prize draw in the UK, offering a prize pool valued at more than £200,000 to support grassroots clubs in their fundraising efforts Building on its ‘Mobility For All’ vision, Toyota is investing in a mu
The ECB will team up with three charities to support their fundraising as official Match Charity Partners for the next two years.
Through the partnerships, each charity will take centre stage on one matchday during the summer to raise awareness of their vital work and support their fundraising efforts.
The three charities are:
The Ruth Strauss Foundation – Test Match Charity Partner
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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
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
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
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
Jos Buttler has announced he will step down as England Men’s white ball captain on Saturday, after the team’s final game of the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy against South Africa.
Buttler presided over our 2022 Men’s T20 World Cup winning campaign in Australia and will continue to make himself available for selection.
Buttler said: “This is the right decision for me and it’s the right decision f
The ECB has appointed Vikram Banerjee as Managing Director of The Hundred, giving him responsibility for accelerating the competition's global growth. This appointment follows his successful leadership in attracting strategic investors to The Hundred, resulting in a combined valuation of £975 million for the eight teams within just four years of the competition’s inception.
In his new role, Vik
A 15-player England Women Cricket Pathway (EWCP) squad will travel to Abu Dhabi for a training camp.
The camp is an opportunity for the six players involved in the England Women Pace Bowling Performance Programme to further their skills in warm conditions and an opportunity for further players across different skill sets to gain some competitive scenario practice.
Ryana MacDonald-Gay (Surr
England Men’s Mixed Disability team will play at Lord’s against India as part of their pioneering seven-match IT20 series, with visits to three other First-Class grounds among the tour itinerary.
India will come to England in late June, to compete in a trailblazing Vitality IT20 Mixed Disability series – the first of its kind at international level in cricket, bringing together the Physical Dis
Parties chosen after comprehensive three-round bidding process which attracted interest from around the world Subject to successful conclusion of deals, they will partner with host clubs to run each Hundred team and help realise global ambitions for the competition The eight teams have been valued at a total of just over £975m, with more than £520m set to be injected into the professional and rec
Richard Thompson, ECB Chair, said:
“Today the ECB Board discussed recent calls for England to boycott the forthcoming men’s Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan in the wake of the widespread violation of women’s rights in the country under the Taliban.
“What is happening in Afghanistan is nothing short of gender apartheid. At a cricketing level, when women’s and girls’ cricket is growi
England were defeated by an innings and 122 runs in the one-off Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the Women's Ashes.
Australia were bowled out for 440 in their first innings after England impressed to take the last five wickets for nine runs in the first session of day three, but still faced a deficit of 270.
Sophie Ecclestone completing her five-wicket haul, became the first English w