England seamer Katherine Brunt has announced her retirement from Test cricket.
Brunt, 36, steps away from the game as England Women's third-leading Test wicket-taker with 51 wickets. She will continue to play ODI and IT20 cricket.
Brunt made her Test debut in 2004, and was part of a momentous moment for English cricket in just her third Test match - taking nine wickets across the match and s
England Men's selection panel have named a 14-strong squad for the third LV= Insurance Test match against New Zealand starting at Headingley on 23 June.
England Men's Test squad v New Zealand:
Ben Stokes (Durham) captain
James Anderson (Lancashire)
Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire)
Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
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England powered to a historic first Deaf Ashes victory thanks to an outstanding display from all-rounder James Schofield. Schofield – in quarantine during the T20 rubber after contracting Covid – enjoyed a dream day out for George Greenway’s side, who won by eight wickets in Brisbane to take an unbeatable 5-2 lead with one game left of a dramatic, keenly fought series.
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Yorkshire County Cricket Club and a number of individuals have today been charged following an ECB investigation into racism and other allegations at the Club and its handling of those allegations.
The charges arise from alleged breaches of ECB Directive 3.3 (conduct which is improper or which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the ECB, the game of cricket or
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A brilliantly paced, patient unbeaten 82 from Josh Price eased England to a seven-wicket victory over Australia in the opening ODI in Brisbane to put the Deaf Ashes within tantalising reach.
Guaranteed a share of the spoils, George Greenway’s men now need one win from the remaining two games to lift the trophy for the first time.
After Australia’s dramatic super-over win in Sun
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England’s Learning Disability cricketers retained the Ashes in style with a resounding eight-wicket win over Australia in the Commonwealth Bank International Inclusion series in Brisbane.
Another outstanding bowling and fielding effort from Chris Edwards’ side skittled the hosts for 71 before reaching their target in 12 overs to take an unassailable 5-1 lead with two games stil
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A dramatic day and night – and another hugely powerful advert for disability cricket – ended in mixed fortunes for England’s double Ashes assault down under.
While Jack Perry’s blistering century tightened the Learning Disability side’s grip on the series, there was heartbreak for the Deaf XI. Chasing 106 to mirror the LD side’s 4-1 commanding T20 performance, George Greenway’s m
Southern Vipers 110-4 beat Central Sparks 109-8 by six wickets
Charlie Dean was Player of the Match as Southern Vipers won the Charlotte Edwards Cup by six wickets at Northampton.
Dean - who had earlier taken the key wickets of Eve Jones and Amy Jones - and Ella McClaughan (30*) put on 41 for the fifth wicket as Vipers won their first Charlotte Edwards Cup title, to join the two Rachael Heyh
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A nail-biting, one-run defeat under the lights for England’s Learning Disability side kept hosts Australia’s hopes of a share of the Commonwealth Bank International Inclusion Series alive.
Targeting 124 to go 4-0 up at the halfway point of their eight-game rubber after an impressive 49-run win in the morning’s first T20 meeting, Chris Edwards’ men fell agonisingly short at the
The Hundred Overseas Wildcard Draft has seen yet more international men’s and women’s superstars sign up to take part in The Hundred this summer. In a world first for cricket, overseas men’s and women’s players have been drafted together ahead of an exciting summer of world-class sport and family-friendly entertainment.
The big signings include:
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England Women’s Senior Assistant Coach Tim Macdonald is to leave his role in order to return home and take up a job with Perth Scorchers and Western Australia men’s teams.
Macdonald, who played first-class cricket for his native Western Australia, as well as Tasmania, will move on after England Women’s Commonwealth Games campaign in August to take up the role of Senior Assistant Coach – Bowling
Welsh Fire have appointed former Gloucestershire and England all-rounder Mark Alleyne as an assistant coach for the men’s team in The Hundred.
Alleyne is currently an ECB Test scout and Assistant Director of Sport at Marlborough College and travelled with the England men’s IT20 squad as a support coach during their recent tour of the West Indies.
Renowned for his success as a player in one-
