ECB and the wider game will mark Stonewall's Rainbow Laces campaign from July 1-July 6.
The campaign - now in its 10th year - is designed to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion in sport. Cricket will be participating for the seventh season in a row.
Players will be given laces, stumps will be branded and there will be big-screen graphics across all Vitality Blast and Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy fixture
The Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) finds cricket’s structures and systems have failed to prevent discrimination The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has today publicly apologised and acknowledged that more action is required to tackle discrimination in the sport Reforms will be agreed within three months, working with representatives from across cricket to agree a plan o
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Initial Washroom Hygiene (Initial) have today announced a strategic partnership, designed to bring period dignity to grassroots cricket.
Central to this new partnership is a shared ambition to ensure that menstruation is not something that holds back women and girls from being involved in sports.
Utilising Initial’s extensive research and e
England cricketers Lydia Greenway, Adil Rashid and Sam Curran are among the names recognised in the King's Birthday Honours.
Greenway, a two-time World Cup winner and four-time Ashes winner who played over 200 times for her country, receives an OBE. Since retiring from playing, the former Kent left-hander has also founded Cricket For Girls.
Rashid, also a two-time World Cup winner, is aw
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and BBC Sport have today announced an audio deal to extend live cricket coverage across BBC Radio and BBC Sounds up to and including the 2028 season.
The new four-year agreement extends the existing deal which runs to 2024 and ensures live coverage of all England's home Tests, one-day internationals and IT20s will continue to be heard exclusively across
The venues hosting England Men's and England Women’s international matches over the seven-year period from 2025 to 2031 have been announced.
With this year’s hotly anticipated LV= Insurance Men’s Ashes and Metro Bank Women’s Ashes series just days away, the seven-year schedule sets out the details of two more huge Ashes summers to look forward to:
England Men will take on Australia Men
Metro Bank to become the first ever champion partner of women’s and girls’ cricket, across all formats, from Test match to grassroots
A new Women’s and Girls’ Fund will sit at the heart of the partnership, supporting the transformation of grassroots cricket for women and girls
Metro Bank to be the official England Women’s team partner including Title Partner of the Women’s Ashes Series
The En
The England and Wales Cricket Board is delighted to announce a multi-year partnership with Laithwaites Wine which will become the Official Wine Partner of England Cricket. The partnership launches ahead of an exciting summer which features Men's and Women's Ashes Series and limited over matches against New Zealand and Ireland for the Men and Sri Lanka for the Women.
Through the partnership,
Sanjay Patel, Managing Director of The Hundred, is to leave the ECB after the conclusion of the competition this year.
Sanjay has led the creation and launch of the new competition, which has attracted attendances of more than 1m over the first two years. It has attracted more families, women and children to cricket, with 22% of tickets going to children last year and 28% of female ticket b
New research published by the ECB highlights the health of cricket in England and Wales following growth in the number of fans, players, match attendances and TV viewers over recent years.
The data was shared with representatives from the wider cricket community at the ECB’s 2023 AGM which was held at Emirates Old Trafford today. Key findings include:
13 million people describe themselve
World Cup-winning England cricketer Ebony Rainford-Brent MBE and sports development expert Pete Ackerley have been appointed to the ECB Board as Cricket Non-Executive Directors.
They fill the final two vacancies on the Board, and their appointments will be ratified at tomorrow’s ECB Annual General Meeting.
Ebony won the ICC Women’s World Cup and the ICC World T20 with England in 2009, pl
Penny Avis, Baroness Zahida Manzoor CBE, Jennifer Owen Adams and Gareth Williams will all add their expertise to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after being appointed its newest Non-Executive Directors.
The three-year appointments follow the loss of Brenda Trenowden CBE, who passed away in August 2022, and a number of current Board members leaving the Board at the forthcoming Annu
