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Richard Thompson has been named the chair of the ECB for the next five years. Thompson, currently chair at Surrey CCC, will start in his new post on September 1, filling a vacancy which had lasted for nearly a year. Thompson was the unanimous choice of the nominations committee, headed by independent director Brenda Trenowden.

Dom Sibley and Dan Lawrence will have the opportunity to impress England’s new management after being named in a strong 13-man Lions squad to play the visiting South Africans in a four-day match at Canterbury next week. Sibley has not played Test cricket since England’s second Test against India last summer but has had a

England have handed a recall to Ollie Robinson for the upcoming home Test series with South Africa. Robinson, the right-arm seamer whose last Test appearance was against Australia in Hobart in January this year, has made the squad of 14 for the first two matches of the three-match series after a battle with an array

Jonny Bairstow has pulled out of the opening stages of the Hundred, ESPNcricinfo understands. Bairstow had been due to play for Welsh Fire, and was expected to be available for the first two or three games – including Wednesday’s season opener against defending champions Southern Brave – before linking up with England’s Test squad to

Matthew Mott, England’s limited-overs coach, has challenged fringe batters to score “a mountain of runs” in the Hundred to push for T20 World Cup selection and insisted that “no one has a mortgage on a spot”. England will have picked a preliminary World Cup squad by the time they play their next men’s T20I series,

Toss England chose to bowl vs South Africa Jos Buttler opted to chase in the deciding T20I against South Africa as his men seek a first white-ball trophy at home this summer. England have managed at least one limited-overs series win at home since 2013, and this match is their last opportunity to get their

Big picture And just like that, England’s home white-ball summer is at its end. Twelve matches in 24 days may have been a treat for the fans but it proved tough on players and brought about one major casualty. Ben Stokes retired from ODIs after the first match against South Africa and was rested for

Heather Knight will miss England’s opening match of the Commonwealth Games, against Sri Lanka on Saturday, with a hip injury. Knight, the England captain, suffered the injury during the first T20I against South Africa on July 21 and subsequently missed the remaining two matches of that series, which her side won in her absence. Knight

Eoin Morgan believes that the advent of the Hundred will help preserve the viability of English cricket, because it will give more prominence to home-grown players, and prevent a mass exodus of non-England internationals to lucrative overseas leagues. Speaking in the lead-up to this year’s Hundred, in which he will once again captain London Spirit

South Africa 207 for 3 (Rossouw 96*, Hendricks 53) beat England 149 (Shamsi 3-27, Phehlukwayo 3-39) by 58 runs South Africa unfurled a near-perfect short-form display to beat England by 58 runs in Cardiff, squaring the T20I series ahead of Sunday’s decider at the Ageas Bowl. Just 24 hours after defeat by 41 runs in

Chris Woakes is due to undergo knee surgery on Thursday and faces a race to be fit for the T20 World Cup in Australia. Woakes has not played a full game in any format since England’s tour of the Caribbean in March, reporting a sore knee when he returned to the UK. He said that

England 234 for 6 (Bairstow 90, Moeen 52, Ngidi 5-39) beat South Africa 193 for 8 (Stubbs 72, Hendricks 57, Gleeson 3-51) by 41 runs Jonny Bairstow hit a career-best 90 and Moeen Ali scored England’s fastest T20I fifty as the hosts racked up their second-biggest score in the format in a high-scoring clash. As

The ICC Board has finalised Lord’s as the venue for the next two World Test Championship finals in 2023 and 2025. The decision was approved at the ICC’s AGM, which concluded on Tuesday in Birmingham. The inaugural WTC final was held in Southampton in 2021 when New Zealand got the better of India in four

England 176 for 6 (Ecclestone 33*, Wyatt 30, Mlaba 3-22) beat South Africa 138 for 6 (Brits 59, Kemp 2-18, Ecclestone 2-24) by 38 runs A half-century to Tazmin Brits was no match for a stellar effort with bat and ball from Sophie Ecclestone and another successful youth policy roll-out as England won the final

Rain break South Africa 119 for 2 from 20.5 overs (de Kock 69*) vs England Quinton de Kock eased along to an effortlessly fluent 69 not out from 55 balls, to set South Africa up for an imposing total, before a heavy band of rain swept across Headingley to leave the third ODI against England

Glamorgan 795 for 5 declared (Northeast 410*, Cooke 191*, Ingram 139) beat Leicestershire 584 (Mulder 156, Mike 91, Hill 81, Kimber 68, Walker 64, Swindells 52, Salter 4-158) and 183 (Mulder 59, Hogan 4-43) by an innings and 28 runs Sam Northeast made an unbeaten quadruple-century before Glamorgan pulled off an astonishing victory on an

Big picture Determining who will come out on top in Sunday’s third ODI is a tough call to make. And by the end of this page, you probably won’t be any closer to knowing. That’s probably a bad way to start a match preview for this winner-takes-all affair. But over the last few days, England

Heinrich Klaasen was not really concerned that the white ball would disappear into the white sheeting, visible at the bottom of the sight screen after 10 overs of the South African innings in the second ODI against England, but he was hoping to use up some time as South Africa found themselves in an impossible

Jonny Bairstow has vowed to continue as a three-format international cricketer but added his voice to those of his team-mates who have expressed their displeasure at a packed calendar. Over the last week, the workloads of international cricketers have come under scrutiny, particularly in England after Ben Stokes urged the authorities to stop considering players

Sir Andrew Strauss has given his clearest hint yet that his high-performance review will push for the volume of cricket in the men’s domestic schedule to be reduced, and denied that England’s Test results this summer have rendered the review obsolete. “Naturally I’m delighted to see this change in fortunes and I’ve loved watching the

The post-Ben Stokes era is upon England and although ODI cricket is not their top priority this year, they will want to start crafting a style of play that can sustain them through to their defence of the World Cup in India next year. On the evidence of the series opener, that has to involve

Mark Wood has revealed he is due to undergo a further operation on his troublesome right elbow this week, and will miss the rest of the English summer. He remains hopeful of making the T20 World Cup in Australia which begins in the middle of October. Wood has been out since March after sustaining the

South Africa “were a bit more up for it” in the opening match of their all-format tour, according to Rassie van der Dussen, as they outplayed an overworked England on a scorching day in Durham. With international schedules in the spotlight, not least because of Ben Stokes’ ODI retirement, it did not go unnoticed that

Ben Stokes has urged the authorities to stop considering players as “cars” and hopes his ODI retirement will be a wake-up call. The allrounder was speaking ahead of his 105th and final ODI after taking the decision to retire from the format. In a statement detailing his decision, he spoke of a desire to lighten

Toss South Africa chose to bat vs England Ben Stokes will take the field in his final ODI for England after Keshav Maharaj chose to bat first in Durham. On a day when temperatures are expected to reach a record high in England, Maharaj cited the weather and a dry-looking pitch as his reasons for

Saqib Mahmood has turned down an offer from Warwickshire and signed a new, two-year contract with Lancashire until the end of the 2024 season. Mahmood, 25, enjoyed a breakthrough winter for England, impressing in the Caribbean in his first Test series, but was ruled out of this season after one game due to a stress

Big picture In many ways, the Ben Stokes farewell ODI at Durham will be a welcome distraction for England. Two series defeats to India, both 2-1, the last of which, in the 50-over format, was confirmed on Sunday in a comprehensive five-wicket defeat at Emirates Old Trafford, has made life after Eoin Morgan seem a

Ben Stokes has announced that he will retire from ODI cricket immediately after England play South Africa at Chester-le-Street on Tuesday due to the physical and mental demands of the international schedule. Stokes was appointed as England’s Test captain earlier this year and said that playing three formats was “just unsustainable for me now” and

Big picture The last time India came away from a multi-format tour of Australia, England, New Zealand or South Africa without a series loss in any format was in 2018-19 in Australia. To find the next-most-recent instance, one will have to go all the way back to 1986, when India drew their ODI series in

Rob Key, England men’s director of cricket, admits he has been surprised by the speed with which both the players and the public have bought into Brendon McCullum‘s new vision for the Test team, but says he shares McCullum’s dislike of the phrase “Bazball”, because he feels it “devalues” what the team has achieved in