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  • New Era and The Hundred join forces to create new headwear collection

    New Era announced as the Official Headwear Supplier for The Hundred, helping to take cricket to new and younger audiences.
    The new three-year partnership with New Era, which is renowned for its long-standing associations with some of the world’s most exciting and watched sports, including the MLB, NFL and NBA, will be creating a bespoke collection of headwear for all eight city-based teams taki

  • ECB announce new infrastructure funding for First-Class Counties to further boost fan experience

    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has today announced a £25million increase to its Infrastructure Fund for First-Class Counties (FCCs) over the next five years.
    This is in addition to the £50million of FCC infrastructure funding that ECB pledged earlier this year when launching its strategy for 2020-24: Inspiring Generations.
    ECB’s Infrastructure Fund, now totalling £75milllion, wil

  • Media Invite: Transforming Women's And Girls' Cricket

    In January, we launched Inspiring Generations – cricket’s strategy for 2020-24.
    During the development of Inspiring Generations, and the extensive consultation process conducted across the game, the strong appetite to transform cricket’s relationship with women and girls was abundantly clear. There is a tremendous enthusiasm across the cricket network to increase the representation of wom

  • ​Record-setting summer for Vitality Blast

    This weekend’s Vitality Blast Finals Day will provide a showpiece event in a domestic summer in which nearly 1.5 million fans will have attended county cricket.

  • Greenway and Moody join The Hundred

    Lydia Greenway and Tom Moody have been appointed as the head coaches of the Oval-based team for The Hundred next summer.
    Moody has established a reputation as one of the world’s pre-eminent coaches at international and domestic level having led Sri Lanka to the 2007 ICC Men’s World Cup final and more recently coaching Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first Indian Premier League title in 2016.
    Gr

  • Birmingham confirm Sawyer as Women’s Team Head Coach for The Hundred

    Ben Sawyer, coach of the two-time Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) winners Sydney Sixers, has been appointed as the Head Coach of the Birmingham Women’s team in The Hundred.
    Sawyer, 40, is Assistant Coach and a fast bowling specialist for the Australia women’s team and has enjoyed a glittering coaching career with Sydney Sixers, having led them to all four WBBL finals and winning the competition

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