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  • Kaur (pictured) and Mandhana saw India home. Photo: Getty Images

    India Women level the IT20 series at Derby

    India Women 146-2 beat England Women 142-6 by eight wickets
    India Women levelled the Vitality IT20 series at Derby with a resounding eight-wicket win, despite a record-breaking half-century for 17-year-old Freya Kemp.
    England opted to bat first but got off to a poor start, falling to 54-5. Kemp and Maia Bouchier (34), teammates at Southern Vipers, put on 64 for the sixth wicket to take the h

  • CDC impose six-point sanction on Lancashire

    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

  • Sarah Glenn took 4-24. Photo: Getty Images

    England Women win opening IT20 at Durham

    England Women 133-1 beat India 132-7 by nine wickets
    Sarah Glenn took career-best figures of 4-23 and Sophia Dunkley hit her highest IT20 score of 61* as England Women beat India Women by nine wickets at Durham.
    Stand-in captain Amy Jones won the toss and asked India to bat, and her bowlers kept the visitors down to 132-7.
    In reply, Dunkley and Danni Wyatt (24) put on 60 before No.3 Alice

  • Nat Sciver will take a break from the game. Photo: Getty Images

    Nat Sciver to miss India series

    England Women all-rounder Nat Sciver has decided to withdraw from England Women’s Vitality IT20 Series and Royal London Series against India to focus on her mental health and wellbeing. The 30-year-old left Durham today to return home.
    Amy Jones will captain throughout the Vitality IT20 series in Sciver’s absence, and a replacement player will be named in the squad ahead of the second Vitality

  • Nottinghamshire and England batter Alex Hales (Getty Images)

    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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    England ICC Men's T20 Wor

  • Lauren Bell was the second leading wicket-taker in The Hundred. Photo: Getty Images

    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

  • Trent Rockets men and Oval Invincibles women lift The Hundred 2022 trophies

    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

  • England Men's Batter Jonathan Bairstow (Getty Images)

    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

  • England Men's White-Ball Captain Jos Buttler (Getty Images)

    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.
    England ICC Men's T20 World Cup Squad & Three-Match IT20 Series versus Australia
    (15 players & three travelling reserves)
    Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain
    Moeen Ali (Worce

  • Brenda Trenowden CBE

    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

  • James Anderson, Ben Stokes and others donned their Rainbow Laces. Photo: ECB Images

    Pictures: Cricket celebrates Rainbow Laces

    Please find pictures available to use from across cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign.
    Players taking part in the LV= Insurance Test between England Men and South Africa Men, The Hundred and the Royal London Cup wore Rainbow Laces to encourage and celebrate LGBTQ+ participation in cricket.
    It’s the fifth time cricket has supported Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces campaign, and the first time it has ex

  • A cricketer with the Rainbow Laces in their spikes. Photo: Tom Shaw/ECB Images

    ECB to celebrate Rainbow Laces

    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) are supporting Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces campaign across 25 August-28 August.

    It is the fifth time the game has come together to celebrate and encourage LGBTQ+ participation in cricket. The campaign will run across Royal London Cup quarter-finals, The Hundred and – and for the first time – the England Men’s LV= Insurance Test match against South Afr

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