England Women’s selectors have today announced their 15-player squad for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
The Blaze’s Nat Sciver-Brunt has been named as captain and will lead the squad on home soil at her seventh T20 World Cup.
Sciver-Brunt is joined in the squad by uncapped 18-year-old Surrey spinner Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Warwickshire’s Issy Wong and Durham’s Lauren Filer who are all select
Hundreds of thousands of children across the UK picked up a bat and ball today, as schools came together for the biggest single day of cricket participation the country has ever seen · Schools Cricket Day marks 50 days to go to the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, which is set to inspire the next generation of players · England Women and International cricket superstar Heather Knight wa
Former England Men’s batter and National Selector Ed Smith is to be appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the ECB Board from October 1, 2026.
Smith will bring additional international cricket experience to the Board having served as National Selector from 2018 until 2021, a period which saw the England Men’s team win the ICC Men’s World Cup in 2019.
During a 12-year playing career, Smith
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Castore have today unveiled the new collection of England Cricket kits and training wear to be worn by all three England teams across 2026.
New ODI, IT20 and training kit will be worn by the England Women’s, England Men’s and England Men’s Mixed Disability teams in a huge summer that includes the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
Both the IT20 and ODI k
Durham opener Ben McKinney admits he wanted to be “greedy” as his career best first-class score in Durham’s innings and 225-run victory over Gloucestershire at Bristol saw him named the Rothesay County Championship Player of the Round.
McKinney hit a magnificent 244 from 272 balls in Durham’s first-innings score of 605-5 declared, setting the match up for the bowlers to take the 20 wickets need
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Catherine Beloff will join the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as the organisation’s new General Counsel in September.
As General Counsel, Catherine will sit on the ECB Executive Leadership Group and her responsibilities will include providing expert guidance on all legal matters which affect the ECB including commercial areas, regulations, governance and litigation.
Catherine joins th
The Metro Bank One-Day Cup women's competition begins on Saturday 11 April. The ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay has provided the county-by-county previews for Tier 1 of the competition.
DURHAM
Previewed by Graham Hardcastle, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Captain: Hollie Armitage
Head coach: Dani Hazell
2025 finish: 6th
2025 highest run-scorer: Hollie
Tom Smith has joined the England Women’s coaching staff as an assistant coach with a focus on spin bowling.
The former left-arm spinner took nearly 400 wickets across all formats during his professional playing career for Sussex, Surrey, Middlesex and Gloucestershire. It was at Gloucestershire where his coaching career began in 2021 when he fulfilled a dual player/coach role before stepping int
The 15th Rothesay Domestic Cricket Journalism Awards were presented at a ceremony at Lord’s on Tuesday.
With the support of new naming sponsor Rothesay, the UK’s largest pensions insurance specialist and Official Title Partner of Men’s and Women’s Test Matches, Official Partner of England Cricket and title sponsor of the Rothesay County Championship, the awards attracted a record-breaking numbe
The ECB has today launched the T20 Hall of Fame presented by Vitality to celebrate the icons of domestic T20 cricket in England and Wales.
The T20 Hall of Fame presented by Vitality will recognise the men and women whose performances and impact in ECB domestic T20 cricket competitions have been exceptional both on and off the field.
As part of the launch, six men and six women, have today be
The ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay has provided the annual county-by-county season preview ahead of the start of the Rothesay County Championship on Friday 3 April.
ROTHESAY COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE
ESSEX
Previewed by Martin Smith, ECB Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay
Captain: Tom Westley
Director of cricket:Chris Silverwood
2025 finish: 6th
2025
Across England and Wales, more than 39,500 volunteers supported over 1,800 clubs to get ready for the season - the biggest Get Set Weekend, powered by Toyota on record. England players Lauren Bell, Issy Wong and Sam Curran joined volunteers at St Albans Cricket Club to prepare for the season. Toyota’s title partnership continues to strengthen grassroots cricket and
England Women Under 19s have named a 16-strong group for a tri-series against Australia and Sri Lanka.
The team fly out today for six games: one 50-over game and two T20s against both the hosts and Sri Lanka.
Head Coach Chris Guest said: “We’ve worked with this group of players across the winter and the next stage of their development is to play competitive games of cricket against other nat
England Men's selection panel have named a 15-strong squad for the LV= Insurance Test match against Ireland at Lord’s starting on Thursday 1 June 2023.
England Men's Test Squad:
Ben Stokes (Durham) Captain
James Anderson (Lancashire)
Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire)
Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)
Dan L
