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  • Surrey and Northern Diamonds with their domestic titles. Photos: Getty Images

    ECB announce schedule for 2023 domestic season

    LV= Insurance County Championship returns April 6, in the same format as last year – each county will play 14 fixtures. The fixture list for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy has doubled, with 14 50-over fixtures per season for each women’s regional team. Vitality Blast starts with Vitality Blast Off at Edgbaston on May 20, with Finals Day on July 15 once again a sell-out. The Charlotte Edwards Cup

  • ECB, Chance to Shine and Lord’s Taverners join forces, taking cricket to hundreds more schools this year

    ECB, Chance to Shine and Lord’s Taverners join forces, taking cricket to hundreds more schools this year

    Through inclusive programmes being rolled out by the ECB, Chance to Shine and Lord’s Taverners, cricket will be taken directly to those children who are at the greatest risk of missing out on playing the game.

    More than 55,000 extra children from underserved communities, and those attending special educational needs and disability schools, are being given the chance to play cricket through

  • Luke Wright joins selection team as England Men’s Selector

    Luke Wright joins selection team as England Men’s Selector

    Former England and Sussex all-rounder Luke Wright has been appointed England Men’s Selector, joining the group responsible for picking national Men’s squads.

    Wright will input into all England Men’s squads and team selections from senior teams to Lions and Young Lions. He will share responsibility for selection with coaches and captains of the red and white ball teams, England Men’s Managin

  • Richard Gould announced as new ECB Chief Executive Officer

    Richard Gould announced as new ECB Chief Executive Officer

    The England and Wales Cricket Board today announces that Richard Gould will join as its new Chief Executive Officer.

    Mr Gould, 52, will take up the post at the end of January, moving from his current role as CEO of Bristol City Football Club.

    He brings significant leadership experience from major organisations across sport, having served as CEO at first Somerset County Cricket Club a

  •  ECB reports further progress to promote equity across cricket

    ECB reports further progress to promote equity across cricket

    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is today (29 September 2022) setting out the continued progress that cricket is making in its commitment to promote equity, diversity and inclusion at all levels of the game.
    Since the announcement of cricket’s game-wide action plan in November 2021, the ECB has continued to work with County organisations and other partners to combat racism and ensure t

  • Dream Big Desi Women Programme celebrating at the Summer Party 2022.

    Over 2,000 more South Asian women now volunteering in cricket as Dream Big programme reaches landmark


    Dream Big Desi Women programme has now recruited and trained over 2,000 South Asian female cricket volunteers Culmination of a four-year, £2.4 million Sport England-funded programme, delivered by The ECB Volunteers deliver cricket programmes for children across urban areas, giving opportunities for thousands more youngsters to get involved in the sport Celebration of programme’s success taki

  • Fixtures announced for Men’s and Women’s Ashes in 2023

    Fixtures announced for Men’s and Women’s Ashes in 2023

    England Women will take on Australia Women at Lord’s, the Kia Oval, Edgbaston, The Ageas Bowl, Trent Bridge, the Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol, and Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton, in 2023 as both the Men’s and Women’s Ashes come to England and Wales.

    Ben Stokes’s team will host Ireland at Lord’s in the first week of June before the 73rd LV= Insurance Men’s Ashes series gets underwa

  • Lightning celebrate a wicket in this year's Charlotte Edwards Cup. Photo: Getty Images

    Nottinghamshire CCC becomes Regional Host for the East Midlands

    Following a tender process, Nottinghamshire CCC has been announced as the Regional Host for the East Midlands in the Women’s Regional Structure.
    From November 1, Nottinghamshire CCC will replace Loughborough University who have been one of the eight Regional Hosts since the structure came into place in 2019.
    In conjunction with the ECB, Loughborough University have decided that the future de

  • 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

  • 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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