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England Men's Test Captain Ben Stokes (ECB Collection and Getty Images)

Squad announced for England Men’s first two Test matches versus West Indies

England Men's selection panel have named a 14-strong squad for the first two Test matches of the three-match Test series against West Indies starting at Lord’s on Wednesday, 10 July 2024.
England Men's Test Squad:
Ben Stokes (Durham) Captain
James Anderson (Lancashire) (First Test only)
Gus Atkinson (Surrey)
Shoaib Bashir (Somerset)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Zak Crawley (Kent)

England Men’s Test Captain Stokes joins calls for more school sport

England Men’s Test Captain Stokes joins calls for more school sport

England Men’s Test captain Ben Stokes is backing calls for every child to be guaranteed at least two hours of PE a week in school.
Stokes spoke of the importance of cricket being played in more state schools as he visited Newcastle’s Hawthorn Primary School. Its pupils have been receiving free cricket lessons as part of an expanded schools programme funded by the ECB and delivered by Northumber

England Men's White Ball Head Coach Matthew Mott (left) and White Ball Captain Jos Buttler (Getty Images)

England name provisional ICC Men’s T20 World Cup squad

England Men's selection panel have named a provisional squad for the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 in the West Indies and United States of America starting in June and the preceding four-match Vitality IT20 series against Pakistan, which gets underway next month in Leeds.
England Provisional ICC Men's T20 World Cup & Vitality IT20 Squad versus Pakistan Squad:
Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain

England Men's Physical Disability Head Coach, Chris Highton. CREDIT: David Griffin.

England Men’s Physical Disability team appoint new coaching team

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

England Men’s Deaf and Visually Impaired squads to host India this summer

England Men’s Deaf and Visually Impaired squads to host India this summer

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

ECB launches inaugural tape ball competition across Core Cities

ECB launches inaugural tape ball competition across Core Cities

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

England Men's Test Captain Ben Stokes (left)and New Zealand Captain Tim Southee (Getty Imsges)

Christchurch, Wellington, and Hamilton to host England Men’s Test Tour of New Zealand

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 Men's all-rounder Ben Stokes (Getty Images)

Ben Stokes Opts Out of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Selection

England men’s cricketer Ben Stokes has confirmed today that he does not wish to be considered for selection ahead of this summer’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, which will take place in June in the West Indies and USA.
The England Test captain’s primary focus is to get fully fit to bowl not only for the summer of Test cricket, which includes two three-match Test series’ against West Indies and Sri L

Jack Leach ruled out of India Test tour

Jack Leach ruled out of India Test tour

England and Somerset spinner Jack Leach has been ruled out of the resof England Men’s Test tour of India with a left knee injury.
Leach sustained the injury during England’s first Test victory in Hyderabad and missed the second Test in Vizag as a result.
He will fly home from Abu Dhabi in the next 24 hours, where the England team have been staying ahead of the third Test in Rajkot, which st

England Men's PD team finish India tour with a win

England Men's PD team finish India tour with a win


England Men's Physical Disability team won the fifth and final match of their series in India by 22 runs in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
India had already clinched the series with a win on Saturday, but the win from England in the final match saw the series finish 3-2 to the hosts.
England Captain Callum Flynn was named player of the series, as he surpassed 1,000 runs in international cricket.

England Men's U19 start Super Six with loss against Australia

England Men's U19 start Super Six with loss against Australia

England Men's U19 lost to Australia Men's U19 by 110 runs (DLS)
England started the Super Six phase of the Under 19s World Cup with a loss to Australia in Kimberley on Wednesday.
England won the toss and chose to bowl first. Sebastian Morgan took a wicket in the first over to get England off to a great start, before Harry Dixon put on a half century to settle the ship for Australia. Captain

England Men's U19 suffer first defeat of World Cup

England Men's U19 suffer first defeat of World Cup

England Men's U19 lost to West Indies Men's U19 by 2 wickets
England finished the group stage of the Under 19s World Cup with a defeat to West Indies on Friday. The result was not enough to stop England from staying ahead of West Indies in Group B, by virtue of their superior net run rate.
West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl first. For the first time in the tournament England lost e

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