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  • Report and Recommendations of External Governance Review into payments to Glamorgan County Cricket Club

    The England & Wales Cricket Board [ECB] today received the independent external review into ‘actions taken and processes followed in relation to payments of £2.5 million to Glamorgan County Cricket Club between December 2017 and June 2018’.
    Publication of the report - which was commissioned by ECB and prepared by an independent team from the Good Governance Institute [GGI] - follows present

  • ECB and ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 aim to take cricket to 1 million children

    The ECB and ICC today announced their strategic plan to use the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 to boost cricket participation and help drive the long-term growth of the game in England and Wales.
    It will use the iconic global sporting event - the biggest prize in world cricket - to inspire and engage 1 million young people, aged between 5 and 12, in the next year.
    A core pillar of this plan is t

  • England player availability for the rest of the season

    After yesterday's victory at the Kia Oval completed a busy international summer with a 4-1 win over India in the Specsavers Test Series, the England management have asked for the majority of the squad to take a break before winter trips to Sri Lanka and West Indies - with the squad for the One-Day series in Sri Lanka to be named later this week, ahead of their departure on September 30.
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  • New Competition: Pilot Days Confirmed

    Timings
    ECB will host six pilot days, between 14 and 27 September, as it continues to develop the new competition for 2020. Pilot days with women players will be run at Loughborough on 14, 15 and 27 September. Pilot days with men will be staged at Trent Bridge on 16, 17 and 18 September.
    Media Attendance
    The media centre at Trent Bridge will be open on Monday 17 September for Wi-Fi, power

  • ECB announce squad for Visually Impaired tour of India

    ECB have today announced a 16-man Visually Impaired (VI) squad for their upcoming tour of India.
    The side will take on World Champions India in three IT20s before competing in a Tri-Series against India and Sri Lanka.
    Sam Murray returns to the squad after taking time out of the sport to become a Para-Rower for Team GB. Darren Paddick has been called up for his first tour after impressing in

  • Vitality Blast Quarter-Final Draw

    The line-up for the Vitality Blast quarter-finals has been confirmed with all four matches to be shown live on Sky Sports:
    Kent Spitfires v Lancashire Lightning - Thursday 23 August (7pm)
    Durham Jets v Sussex Sharks - Friday 24 August (6.30pm)
    Worcestershire Rapids v Gloucestershire - Saturday 25 August (3pm)
    Somerset v Nottinghamshire Outlaws - Sunday 26 August (3pm)

  • ECB reveals the nation's best-ever England Men's Test XI

    England cricket fans have voted for their best-ever men’s Test XI to celebrate the 1000th England men’s Test match at Edgbaston, starting on Wednesday 1st August.
    Cricket fans from across the country were invited to pick their team from over 100 players ranging from W.G. Grace in the 1880s to current Test captain Joe Root in a survey completed by over 6,000 England cricket fans.
    After two w

  • ECB appoints Meena Botros as Director of Legal & Integrity

    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced the appointment of Meena Botros to the role of Director of Legal & Integrity.
    In the newly created role Meena will be responsible for all of ECB’s legal and integrity matters, advising on commercial arrangements and ensuring measures in the professional and recreational game meet the highest regulatory standards.
    Currently the LT

  • James Taylor appointed as England Selector

    James Taylor has been appointed as England Selector in a full-time capacity, with immediate effect
    Taylor played seven Test matches and 27 One-Day Internationals for England, including the 2015 Cricket World Cup and all four Tests in the 2016 Test series win in South Africa.
    In First-Class county cricket, the 28-year old also played for Leicestershire from 2008 to 2011 and Nottinghamshire 20

  • ECB begin search for the nation's best-ever England Men's Test XI to celebrate 1000th Men's Test

    Hutton or Cook? Botham or Stokes? Trueman or Anderson?
    It’s been a debate up and down the country for decades but now, for the first time ever, the ECB has decided it is time to ask the nation pick the best-ever men’s Test XI.
    To mark England’s 1000th men’s Test match in the first Specsavers Test against India at Edgbaston, which begins on Wednesday 1stAugust, the ECB is launching a

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