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  • Media Advisory - MEDIA & TRAINING ARRANGEMENTS 3rd Specsavers Test England v India

    Media Advisory - MEDIA & TRAINING ARRANGEMENTS 3rd Specsavers Test England v India

    Please note the following media and training arrangements ahead of the third Specsavers Test between England and India at Trent Bridge.
    N.B. Media timings are approximate. Please be in place 30 minutes before advertised timings. Timings are (BST).

    Thursday August 16, Trent Bridge
    9.30am-12.30pm: India practice
    12.00pm: England media opportunity
    12.45pm: India media opportunity

  • Statspack: Second Specsavers Test Match - England v India

    Statspack: Second Specsavers Test Match - England v India

    Since 2014 England have won three of the last 9 nine Tests played at Lord’s.
    StartDate Team1 Totals1 Team2 Totals2 Result 24/05/2018 England 184 & 242 Pakistan 363 & 66-1 Pakistan won by 9 wickets 07/09/2017 West Indies 123 & 177 England 194 & 107-1 England won by 9 wickets 06/07/2017 Engl

  • England captain Joe Root (L) and India captain Virat Kohli.

    REVISED: Media Advisory - MEDIA & TRAINING ARRANGEMENTS 2nd Specsavers Test match - England v India

    Revised and updated. Ignore the previous version.
    Please note the following media and training arrangements ahead of the second Specsavers Test between England and India at Lord’s.
    N.B. Media timings are approximate. Please be in place 30 minutes before advertised timings. Timings are (BST).
    Tuesday August 7, Lord’s
    9.30am-12.30pm: India practice
    12.30pm: England media opportunity

  • Jamie Porter

    Moeen Ali and Jamie Porter free to play in Vitality Blast

    England Test squad players, Moeen Ali and Jamie Porter have been released to play in the Vitality Blast this week.
    Moeen will play for the Worcestershire Rapids in two matches against Durham Jets on Friday, August 3 and away to Notts Outlaws at Trent Bridge on Saturday, August 4.
    Porter, the Essex seamer, will leave Edgbaston at close today and feature for the Eagles against Kent Spitfires a

  • England Men's Best XI squad - picture produced for the Test match programme

    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

  • England captain Joe Root

    Statspack: First Specsavers Test Match - England v India

    England will become the first test team to play 1000 men’s Test matches
    Team Played Won Lost Tied Drawn PercWon W/L Ratio England 999 357 297 0 345 35.73 1.20 Australia 812 383 219 2 208 47.16 1.74 West Indies 535 171 188 1 175 31.96 0.90 India 522 145 160

  • Media Advisory - MEDIA & TRAINING ARRANGEMENTS 1st Specsavers Test Match - England v India

    Please note the following media and training arrangements ahead of the first Specsavers Test between England and India at Edgbaston.
    N.B. Media timings are approximate. Please be in place 30 minutes before advertised timings. Timings are (BST).
    Monday July 30, Edgbaston
    9.30am-12.30pm: India practice
    12.30pm: England media opportunity
    12.45pm: India media opportunity
    1.30pm-4.30p

  • England’s Moeen Ali (L) and Adil Rashid

    England squad announced for first Test against India

    England name a 13-man squad for the first Specsavers Test match against India. Yorkshire’s Adil Rashid returns to the squad along with Moeen Ali. Essex’s Jamie Porter included for the first time.

  • Rory Burns will captain England Lions against India A this week

    Burns to lead England Lions

    Surrey captain Rory Burns will lead England Lions in their four-day match against India A which starts at Blackfinch New Road on Monday

  • James Taylor appointed as England Selector

    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

  • Joe Root and Mike Brearley at the England players dinner last year

    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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