England Men’s Physical Disability (PD) team have announced the appointment of Chris Highton as Head Coach and Lloyd Tennant as Assistant Head Coach.
The pair join the England Men’s PD set-up on a two-year contract, with a wealth of knowledge and experience from across the professional game.
Chris Highton has been with the Men’s PD team for 10 years, being first introduced to the side in 2014
The England Men’s Deaf and England Men’s Visually Impaired teams will host India across June and July this summer.
The seven-match Deaf series begins on June 18 at The County Ground, Derby, and then moves to Kidderminster, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire before finishing up in Leicestershire on June 27.
England Men’s Visually Impaired (VI) team also have a three-match series with India’s
Four new members have been appointed to complete cricket’s Regulatory Board, the independent body established as part of the game’s response to the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket report.
The Regulatory Board has two roles:
To oversee the Cricket Regulator, the new investigation and prosecution unit established in December 2023
To scrutinise and advise the ECB Board on cricket’
South East Stars have the best shot at upsetting Southern Vipers’ dominance over the women’s domestic season according to the captains of the eight teams.
The ECB has released its annual survey of the women’s regional captains who have predicted what they expect to happen ahead of the opening round of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy on Saturday.
Georgia Adams’ Southern Vipers won both wh
The Blaze
Previewed by Jon Culley - ECB Reporters Network
Captain: Kirstie Gordon
Head Coach: Chris Guest
2023 finish: Runners-up
2023 highest run-scorer: Tammy Beaumont (317)
2023 highest wicket-taker: Grace Ballinger (18)
Key winter moves: The return of South Africa all-rounder Nadine de Klerk for a full season is a big boost. In just seven appearances in the compet
Former gas works site in Birmingham transformed into celebration of tape ball cricket and South Asian culture to mark the build-up to England vs Pakistan
England stars Heather Knight, Adil Rashid, Jamie Goodwin and Dawid Malan took part in a showcase tape ball cricket match alongside women’s cricket fans Kate Lawler and Shazia Mirza
Tape ball is a casual form of cricket which started on
It’s a game of thrills, spills, passion and drama – now a brand new national competition is being launched to showcase the best of tape ball cricket from diverse urban communities across the country.
Ahead of the start of England Men’s and Women’s international series against Pakistan next month, England stars Adil Rashid, Dawid Malan, Heather Knight and Sophie Ecclestone will today help launch
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed the eight First Class Counties who have been successful in their bid to be awarded Tier 1 women’s team status from 2025.
As a further outcome of the Tier 1 invitation to tender process, the ECB has also today announced the selection of two additional First Class Counties to expand Tier 1 from eight to ten teams by 2027, and an intent t
The England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) trailblazing Disability Premier League is back and bigger than ever for its third edition this summer.
The competition’s final will be held at Sophia Gardens for the very first time, ahead of England Men’s second T20I with Australia on September 13, 2024. Once again it will be broadcast live on Sky Sports.
The Disability Premier League (DPL) i
Hagley Oval, the Cello Basin Reserve, and Seddon Park will host the England Men’s Test Tour of New Zealand at the end of this year.
The three-match Test series have been scheduled to be played in Christchurch from November 28-December 2, in Wellington from December 6-10, and in Hamilton from December 14-18.
Information about tickets will be released in due course by New Zealand Cricket.
England Women were defeated in their final One Day International match against New Zealand at Seddon Park, Hamilton.
Home captain Sophie Devine missed the opening two fixtures and hit an unbeaten century to help her side to a seven-wicket win.
England win the ODI series 2-1 having secured the T20 series 4-1.
There were two changes to the England side who sealed the series with victory i
£35 million package to deliver the construction of 16 new urban all-weather cricket domes within cities due to host ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2026 and ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2030 Funding will extend the ECB’s partner programmes for young people through Chance to Shine and Lord’s Taverners in schools, and the ACE Programme Funding will enable over 900,000 young people to play cricket over n
