Matt Mason has been appointed as England Women Fast Bowling Coach. The 48-year-old, who took over 400 wickets in a 15-year professional career, is a highly respected coach in the men’s game. He joins from Warwickshire, having previously worked in similar roles at Western Australia, Perth Scorchers, Leicestershire and Worcestershire. Mason spent nine years at
Short format stars feature in both men’s and women’s shortlists Australia’s Cameron Green, India’s Axar Patel and Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan form the men’s lineup Nigar Sultana is nominated after captaining Bangladesh to T20 World Cup qualification and is joined by India duo Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana More about the ICC Player of the Month
Full match schedule of fixtures released available here 23 matches featuring the Top 10 women’s teams in the world on show from 10 -26 February Tickets on sale online here and across all three venues – Newlands Cricket Ground, Boland Park and St George’s Park The top 10 teams in the world will begin their bid for the
Northern Diamonds v Southern Vipers at London North (Lord’s) on 25 September 2022 (10h30) Billed by commentators as either ‘third-time-lucky’ either for Diamonds bagging their inaugural win, or Vipers, bagging a hat-trick of trophies. Before the match, a minute’s silence was held, followed by the national anthem; and an ECB statement was read out to
India Women 169 beat England Women 153 by 16 runs India Women won the final Royal London International at Lord’s to seal a 3-0 series win. Kate Cross took 4-26 as England’s bowlers did a fine job to bowl India out for 169, but in reply England faltered and fell 19 runs short, despite a fine, spirited
There was an international match not many months ago between two sides whom I will term Team A and Team B (aka Erewhon and Ruritania), wherein a bowler from Team A dismissed a whole string of batters from Team B by using the so-called Mankad* method (the bowler fails to deliver the ball; instead she
SE Stars v Southern Vipers at Beckenham (Kent) on 21 September 2022 (10h30) Staged at very short notice, the Play-off was billed by commentators as a ‘semi-final’ to decide who meets Northern Diamonds, who’ve already qualified for the final. Beforehand, a minute’s silence was held, followed by the national anthem; and an ECB statement was read
Dream Big Desi Women programme has now recruited and trained over 2,000 South Asian female cricket volunteers Culmination of a four-year, £2.4 million Sport England-funded programme, delivered by The ECB Volunteers deliver cricket programmes for children across urban areas, giving opportunities for thousands more youngsters to get involved in the sport Celebration of programme’s success
India Women 333-5 beat England Women 245 by 88 runs Harmanpreet Kaur’s 143 not out led India to a series win in the second Royal London International at Canterbury. After putting India into bat, England’s bowlers kept things tight initially before Kaur, Harleen Doel (58) and Smriti Mandhana (40) took India to the very imposing total of 333-5. It was
England Women will take on Australia Women at Lord’s, the Kia Oval, Edgbaston, The Ageas Bowl, Trent Bridge, the Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol, and Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton, in 2023 as both the Men’s and Women’s Ashes come to England and Wales. Ben Stokes’s team will host Ireland at Lord’s in the first week
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