NatWest CricketForce is back for the summer of 2020, but as cricket clubs across the country contend with returning to play in the wake of COVID-19, the focus this year has shifted to ensuring clubs can support their volunteer community and enable them to return to cricket confidently.
Like previous years NatWest CricketForce is all about bringing clubs together to work towards a common goal. B
Please find below a link to download England's Managing Director of Men's Cricket Ashley Giles. media conference following play on day one #raisethebat second Test against the West Indies at Emirates Old Trafford.
You will find the following files:
Video and audio file of Ashley Giles media conference - DOWNLOAD HERE
Please credit - England and Wales Cricket Board.
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England’s Jofra Archer has been excluded from the #raisethebat second Test against the West Indies starting today (Thursday 16 July) at Emirates Old Trafford following a breach of the team’s bio-secure protocols.
Archer will now commence five days of isolation and will undergo two COVID-19 tests in this period, which have to test negative before his self-isolation period is lifted.
The West
Please find below a link to download England captain Joe Root’s media conference.
Due to the rain in Manchester, England were unable to train outside and practised in the indoor nets at Emirates Old Trafford ahead of the #raisethebat second Test against the West Indies starting on Thursday 16 July 2020.
You will find the following files:
Video and audio file of Joe Root’s media conferen
Please find below a link to download training footage from England’s practice session at Emirates Old Trafford ahead of the #raisethebat second Test against the West Indies at Emirates Old Trafford starting on Thursday 16 July 2020.
England will confirm their squad for the second Test tomorrow.
Lancashire seamer Saqib Mahmood has left the squad and will join up with England’s white-ball trai
Please find below a link to download a video interview with England spinner Dom Bess ahead of the #raisethebat second Test against the West Indies at Emirates Old Trafford starting on Thursday 16 July 2020.
You will find the following files:
Video file of Bess’s media conference
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Please credit - England and Wales Cricket Board.
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Please find below a link to download a video interview with England captain Ben Stokes following England’s defeat to West Indies in the #raisethebat first Test at the Ageas Bowl.
You will find the following files:
Video file of Stokes’s media conference
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Please find below a link to download a video interview with England seam bowler James Anderson following day three of the #raisethebat first Test between England and West Indies at the Ageas Bowl.
You will find the following files:
Video file of Anderson’s media conference
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18 First-Class Counties committed to participate in same red-ball and white-ball competitions this summer
Fixtures for new men’s domestic season to be announced later this month
All 18 First-Class Counties have agreed to participate in the same competitive red-ball and white-ball competitions during this summer’s shortened men’s domestic season.
The season will commence with a four-day com
Please find below a link to download a video interview with England pace bowler Mark Wood following day two of the #raisethebat first Test between England and West Indies at the Ageas Bowl.
You will find the following files:
Video file of Mark Wood’s media conference
DOWNLOAD HERE
Please credit - England and Wales Cricket Board.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has prepared guidelines for the return of recreational cricket.
The purpose of these guidelines is to offer practical guidance to players and clubs on the steps they should take while undertaking recreational cricket activity in England from Saturday 11 July 2020 onwards, both in training and in matches. They should be read in conjunction with latest UK
24 players named
White-ball management group headed up by Paul Collingwood confirmed for Royal London Series
England National Cricket Selectors have named a 24-strong ‘behind-closed-doors training group’ who will go into camp at the Ageas Bowl on Thursday 16 July ahead of the Royal London Series against Ireland starting on Thursday 30 July.
The group, along with a separate white-ball m
