England Men’s Mixed Disability team will travel to India on their first overseas tour in January 2026, after a successful trial home series this summer.
Selectors have named a 15-strong squad, with four new faces added to the group who beat the same opposition 6-1 in the first-ever series of Mixed Disability international cricket earlier this year.
Callum Flynn will continue as captain, with
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have announced 17 full England Women’s Central Contracts and four Skills contracts for 2025/26.
Ten players have received new one-year contracts, with seven players in the second year of their current terms.
Em Arlott and Emma Lamb have been awarded Skills Contracts for the first time, while Linsey Smith earns her first full Central Contract.
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Deals have now been completed with strategic partners for all eight teams in The Hundred, marking a new era for the competition.
Surrey County Cricket Club and Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited, today announced their partnership. This follows the completion of a deal which gives the organisations 51% and 49% stakes in the fran
Ros Trinick is to join the ECB leadership team as Communications Director in the new year, leading communications strategy across the organisation to help build engagement and grow cricket’s reach.
As Communications Director, Ros will lead across public affairs, media relations, internal communications, social media and content. She is expected to begin work at the ECB in February.
She will
Today the ECB has published a State of Equity in Cricket Report which provides a comprehensive update on progress happening across the sport to make it more accessible and inclusive.
The report focuses on key areas of cricket, such as the game’s culture, people and leadership; broadening access to talent pathways; state school support; work to engage ethnically diverse communities; and action t
The ECB is today publishing an external safeguarding case review into the crimes of Michael Strange, related to his role as a cricket coach in north east England in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Strange has been convicted of 34 separate sex offences of underage boys, involving ten separate victims, between 1993 and 2004.
Strange was suspended from all cricket in 2005 when the ECB was informed o
Aarti Dabas is to join the ECB as Chief Revenue Officer, charged with leading and shaping the game's commercial and revenue strategy.
She will join the ECB having most recently served as Chief Media Officer for Formula E where she was responsible for driving the sport’s global growth.
Before that, Aarti spent more than 12 years at the International Cricket Council (ICC), including five years
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
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
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today confirmed a landmark achievement in the evolution of The Hundred, with deals now complete with the first six strategic partners for The Hundred teams.
The remaining two are set for formal completion at a later date. They remain on track, in line with the ECB having offered investors the option of completing later.
This pivotal moment sees The H
England Men and England Women will host five international teams across all formats in a bumper 2026.
The summer will also see England Women host the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 on home soil from 12 June to 5 July, bringing the global spotlight to women’s cricket.
Ben Stokes’ England Men’s Test team will welcome New Zealand and Pakistan in two Rothesay Test series, while Harry Brook’s whi
