The England Lions will play eight white-ball matches against Pakistan Shaheens in Abu Dhabi in early 2026.
The series will consist of three T20s and five 50-over matches. It will be the first time the Lions have played an away white-ball series since touring Sri Lanka in February 2023.
The opening T20 will be played on Friday 20 February, before the five-match 50-over series begins on Friday
An 18-player England Lions squad has been named for this winter’s tour of Australia.
The squad will assemble in Australia in early November ahead of matches in Perth, Canberra and Brisbane.
England Lions squad (18 players):
Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire)
Sonny Baker (Hampshire)
Jordan Cox (Essex)
Matthew Fisher (Surrey)
Emilio Gay (Durham)
Nathan Gilchrist (Warwickshire)
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England Lions will stage development camps at the ECB Performance Centre (Loughborough University) before touring Australia at the start of the men’s Ashes series.
The Lions’ winter programme will begin with a Development Camp and Profiling at Loughborough (16-17 October) before a Pace Bowling Camp (21-22 Oct) and a Development Camp (27-28 October).
A Lions squad will then fly to Australia i
Josh Tongue and George Hill have been called up the England Lions squad ahead of this week’s second tour match against India Men A at Northampton.
Tongue has been drafted in after he was a part of England Men’s win over Zimbabwe Men in the first Rothesay Test, while Yorkshire all-rounder Hill returns to the squad after missing the opening match. Chris Woakes and Jordan Cox have both joined up w
Zaman Akhter (Gloucestershire), Henry Crocombe (Sussex) and Max Holden (Middlesex) have been called into the England Lions squad ahead of this week’s four-day match against India Men A.
The trio have been bought in as cover for Sonny Baker, Chris Woakes and George Hill.
Baker is unavailable for the opening match, which begins in Canterbury on Friday, due to injury while Woakes is being reste
An initial 15-player squad has been selected for the England Lions’ two four-day matches against India A.
Somerset’s James Rew will captain the Lions for the first time with the opening match at the Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence in Canterbury from Friday 30 May. The second match will be staged at the County Ground in Northampton from Friday 6 June.
England Lions squad:
James Rew (Somerset
England Lions will play two four-day matches against India Men A this summer.
The first four-day match will be hosted at The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence in Canterbury from Friday 30 May. The second match is scheduled to begin a week later on Friday 6 June at the County Ground in Northampton.
The Rothesay Men’s Test series between England Men and India Men begins at Headingley on Friday 20 J
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has awarded Hampshire fast bowler Sonny Baker a Men’s Development Contract, which will run until September 2025.
Baker, 21, will join Hampshire for the start of the 2025 season after previously playing for Somerset. The pace bowler has excelled over the winter, culminating in a successful England Lions tour of Australia last month, which caught the at
England Men’s Lions have confirmed a 16-player squad for their upcoming tour of Australia in January.
The England A tour features two four-day matches against a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane, followed by a first-class Test against Australia A in Sydney.
England Men’s Lions Squad:
Sonny Baker (Hampshire)
Shoaib Bashir (Somerset)
Pat Brown (Derbyshire)
James Coles (Sussex)
Sa
The England Men's Lions have confirmed a 19-player squad to tour South Africa from 20 November to 14 December. The camp will focus on supporting the development of the highest potential players, with a focus on individualised and high-quality training. The tour will conclude with a four-day match against South Africa A in Western Province. The tour is designed to further develop England's talent p
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Flintoff as Head Coach of the England Men’s Lions programme for the upcoming year,
Flintoff emerged as the standout candidate from a pool of high-calibre applicants. He will take up the role in October, overseeing a schedule which includes a tour of South Africa before Christmas, a red ball tour of Aust
Mark Wood has suffered a muscle strain and is ruled out of the Test series Leicestershire's Josh Hull earns first call-up to England Men's Test squadEngland Men's pace bowler Mark Wood has been ruled out of the remainder of the Rothesay Test series against Sri Lanka after scans confirmed a right thigh muscle strain. Wood sustained the injury on the third day of England's five-wicket victory in t
A 12-man England Lions squad has been named for the four-day match against Sri Lanka at Visit Worcestershire New Road.
Kasey Aldridge, Lyndon James, Ollie Price and James Rew are due to join a strong squad after they were all part of the England Lions set-up during the winter.
England Men Under-19s quartet Farhan Ahmed, Eddie Jack, Ben McKinney and Hamza Shaikh are also included after the re
England Men’s Elite Pace Bowling Coach Neil Killeen is set to lead the England Lions on their upcoming tour of India, beginning later this week. The month-long series will feature three four-day matches against India A in Ahmedabad.
Killeen will head up a coaching team that includes local knowledge and experience, to support the playing group's needs. Notable additions to the coaching staff inc
A 15-player England Lions squad will fly to India in early January for a month-long red-ball tour that coincides with the start of England Men’s five-match Test series.
Lancashire batter Josh Bohannon will captain the squad after leading the County Championship Division One run-scoring last summer with 1257 at an average of 59.85 with four centuries.
The Lions will be based in Ahmedabad for
England Lions have announced a 21-player group to travel to the UAE for a training camp from November 16 to December 7.
The group, which includes 10 players (George Balderson, Shoaib Bashir, James Coles, Josh De Caires, Tom Lawes, Dan Mousley, Callum Parkinson, Rishi Patel, Ollie Price, John Turner) who are part of a Lions experience for the first time, will focus on developing their red-ball s
The England and Wales Cricket Board has appointed James Foster, Richard Scott and Owais Shah to the England Men’s scouting team.
The trio are responsible for scouting red-ball and white-ball domestic cricket to inform selection for England Men and England Lions teams and programmes.
Former England internationals Foster and Shah boast extensive playing and coaching experience, while former Mi
Two series between England Men’s U19 and Australia Men’s U19 have been confirmed, with the Young Lions heading to Australia in January and in turn hosting their counterparts across August and September next year.
As part of this, the Young Lions training group for the winter has been announced, with the group having already spent two weeks together at a training camp in Abu Dhabi.
An initial
England Lions have announced their coaching group for the training camp in UAE from November 6-27.
Ian Bell and Jim Troughton (Surrey) will lead the batting, Jon Lewis and Neil Killeen (Durham) will take the pace bowlers, Min Patel (Kent) will be in charge of spin bowling and Paul Tweddle (Somerset) will be fielding and wicket-keeping coach.
Graeme Swann will also form part of the coaching
England Lions have announced a 15-player training group to travel to the UAE from November 6-27.
As well as offering developmental experiences to the players selected, the trip will support England Men's Test preparation for Pakistan with five members of the Test squad arriving ahead of the Test tour and three pace bowlers joining the group to continue their rehabilitation from injury.
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