To mark Black History Month 2025, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is releasing a new three-part video series called Inspiring Generations, spotlighting the future of Black cricket and the individuals driving change on and off the pitch.
The Inspiring Generationsseries, which has been produced in collaboration with cricket journalist Dean Wilson, will be released fortnightly throughout
The England Men U19s selectors have named a 17-player squad for next month’s tour of the Caribbean.
The Young Lions will play five Youth One-Day Internationals against West Indies and two Youth One-Day Internationals against United States in St Vincent.
The matches will provide preparation ahead of the ICC U19 Men’s World Cup, which is to be staged in Namibia and Zimbabwe in early 2026.
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An 18-player England Lions squad has been named for this winter’s tour of Australia.
The squad will assemble in Australia in early November ahead of matches in Perth, Canberra and Brisbane.
England Lions squad (18 players):
Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire)
Sonny Baker (Hampshire)
Jordan Cox (Essex)
Matthew Fisher (Surrey)
Emilio Gay (Durham)
Nathan Gilchrist (Warwickshire)
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The Professional County Cricket Clubs (PCCs) have voted on the future format of the Rothesay County Championship.
A proposal to play a remodelled 13-match Rothesay County Championship did not receive the required majority of votes from the PCCs to affect change.
The decision follows a county-led review into the structure of the men’s county competitions.
The review, which was staged in co
The England Men’s selection panel has named a 16-strong squad for the Ashes Test tour of Australia, alongside IT20 and ODI squads for the white-ball tour of New Zealand, which precedes the Ashes.
England Men's Test Squad (16-players):
Ben Stokes (Durham) - Captain
Jofra Archer (Sussex)
Gus Atkinson (Surrey)
Shoaib Bashir (Somerset)
Jacob Bethell (Warwickshire)
Harry Brook (Yor
World Cup stars and cricket legend appear in global marketing campaign ‘Catch the Spirit’, igniting excitement ahead of next year’s tournament The campaign goes live as tickets go on general sale for next summer’s competition, with the best players from around the world battling it out at the biggest stadiums across England and Wales ICC and ECB are putting huge investment into the campaign aroun
The country’s second all-weather cricket dome has officially opened in Darwen, Lancashire. This state-of-the-art facility marks another important step in the ECB’s drive to expand access to cricket to more young people from all backgrounds, with a particular focus on revitalising the game in state schools.
The dome at Darwen Cricket Club offers the community a fully enclosed environment designe
Cricket fans can already start planning their 2026 summer with confirmation of the dates for next season’s men’s and women’s Vitality Blast Finals Days.
Following the success of the first-ever Vitality Blast Women’s Finals Day earlier this season, the Kia Oval will again stage the showpiece event on Friday 17 July 2026. A day later EdgBLASTon will then host its 14thsuccessive men’s Vitality Bla
England Men U19s have announced a squad with six uncapped players for the Youth One-Day Internationals against Ireland Men U19s and Bangladesh Men U19s.
Uncapped Will Bennison (Yorkshire), Jamie Feldman (Middlesex), Luke Hands (Lancashire), Joe Hawkins (Derbyshire), Manny Lumsden (Hampshire) and Jack Nelson (Middlesex) have been called into the 18-player squad.
Bennison scored a century when
2.5m fans have attended The Hundred across the first five years of the competition.
Since its launch in 2021, 1.5m of the total audience have attended the women’s competition, and 203,000 people have bought tickets to their first-ever cricket game.
In the 2025 season the women’s competition has again broken the global record for total attendance at a women’s cricket competition, with 349,401
The England Women’s selectors have named their 15-strong squad to represent England Women at the ICC Women’s World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.
The tournament runs from 30 September-2 November and will be the first ICC tournament for both Head Coach Charlotte Edwards and captain Nat Sciver-Brunt.
Sciver-Brunt’s predecessor Heather Knight has been named in the squad as she continues her comeba
The dates have been set for England Men’s white-ball tour of Sri Lanka ahead of the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
The three-match one-day international series will begin on Thursday 22 January 2026 and end on Tuesday 27 January 2026. The three-match IT20 series starts on Friday 30 January 2026 before concluding on Tuesday 3 February.
England men – Sri Lanka white-ball tour
1st ODI: Englan
