CDC impose six-point sanction on Lancashire
Lancashire has received a six-point deduction in the LV= Insurance County Championship, following a hearing of a Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) panel.
The CDC panel hearing was convened after Lancashire had incurred two Fixed Penalties within 12 months of being handed a suspended sanction on 10 November 2021.
The fixed penalties were incurred in Lancashire’s County Championship matc
Alex Hales added to England Men's T20 World Cup squad
Nottinghamshire batter Alex Hales has been called up to England's ICC Men's T20 World Cup squad as a replacement for Yorkshire's Jonathan Bairstow after a left ankle injury sustained last week ended his chances of playing in the tournament.
Hales, 33, who last represented England in March 2019, has also been added to the IT20 squad for the tour of Pakistan.
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Lauren Bell earns maiden England Women IT20 call-up
England Women have announced a squad of 14 players for the Vitality IT20 series against India, which gets underway in Durham on Saturday September 10.
There are two changes from the group which participated in the Commonwealth Games. Heather Knight continues her recovery from a hip injury, and England’s leading IT20 wicket-taker Katherine Brunt will miss the series to prioritise her rest an
Second year of The Hundred sees even more families watching live cricket as attendance tops 500,000
The Hundred continues to take cricket to new audiences with more women (28%), children (22%), and families (41%) attending than in the first year 2022 once again set a new global record for total attendance at a women’s cricket competition, with record crowds at every venue and the domestic attendance record being broken twice Of the Sky and BBC TV audience, 42% hadn’t watched any other ECB crick
Bairstow ruled out of the third Test and ICC Men's T20 World Cup
England and Yorkshire batter Jonathan Bairstow has been ruled out of the rest of the summer and the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup after sustaining a lower limb injury in a freak accident whilst playing golf on Friday in Leeds. He will see a specialist next week to ascertain the full extent of the injury.
Nottinghamshire batter Ben Duckett has been added to the Test squad for the LV= Insurance third
Squads named for ICC Men's T20 World Cup and Tour of Pakistan
England Men's selection panel have named squads for the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia starting in October and the preceding seven-match tour of Pakistan, which gets underway later this month in Karachi.
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(15 players & three travelling reserves)
Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain
Moeen Ali (Worce
ECB Board Member, Brenda Trenowden CBE passes away
The England and Wales Cricket Board is today immensely saddened following the death of Brenda Trenowden CBE.
Brenda, who had been battling against the rare cancer pseudomyxoma peritonei, has served for five years on the ECB Board as a senior independent non-executive director.
She recently led the Nominations Committee that appointed Richard Thompson as the ECB’s new Chair and was a consiste