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Maia Bouchier is looking to drive change through cricket

20 November 2024 0 comments

By Paul Eddison, Sportsbeat AS an international cricketer, Maia Bouchier has first-hand experience of just how much climate change is […]

Incredibly proud – Liam Livingstone grateful to be handed England captaincy

29 October 2024 0 comments

Liam Livingstone feels like he has been handed “a new career” as he prepares to captain England for the first […]

England ‘really distraught’ after crashing out of T20 World Cup

16 October 2024 0 comments

England head coach Jon Lewis revealed his players were “distraught” after defeat to West Indies sent them crashing out of […]

Joe Root says he has ‘plenty left to do’ after breaking England Test runs record

10 October 2024 0 comments

Joe Root vowed he still has “plenty more left to do” after a marathon century in Multan saw him become […]

Season review: Middlesex

6 October 2024 0 comments

Middlesex will be kicking themselves over two poor Championship performances that cost them the chance to keep promotion in their own hands.

Season review: Gloucestershire

6 October 2024 0 comments

It was a season of incremental improvements here and euphoric victories there for Gloucestershire as they sensationally won the T20 Blast.

Invincibles make it back-to-back titles

6 October 2024 0 comments

By Phil Walker Into its fourth year, some much-needed narratives have begun to form around the shaky foundations of the […]

Starting salaries equalised in major shake-up

6 October 2024 0 comments

FROM 2025, men’s and women’s minimum salaries will start at the same amount across professional domestic cricket, the ECB has […]

ACE announces the first professional rookie contracts

6 October 2024 0 comments

This month the African-Caribbean Engagement programme [ACE] took another giant leap forward in their extraordinary story with the announcement of […]

ECB announces starting salaries equalised in major shake-up

29 September 2024 0 comments

From 2025, men’s and women’s minimum salaries will start at the same amount across professional domestic cricket, the ECB has […]

ACE announces the first professional rookie okie contracts

29 September 2024 0 comments

Blazing a trail: ACE graduate Amy Wheeler has secured a deal with The Blaze This month the African-Caribbean Engagement programme […]

ACE Programme’s Amy Wheeler joins The Blaze

22 September 2024 0 comments

Amy Wheeler has officially signed a rookie contract with East Midlands side The Blaze in partnership with the ACE Programme.

Gavin Hamilton returns to Yorkshire; Essex fined for discrimination

22 September 2024 0 comments

Yorkshire have appointed former all-rounder Gavin Hamilton, who played a single Test for England in 1999, as their new general manager.

Richard Clarke: T20 Blast finals day is magical, unique

15 September 2024 0 comments

It is 10am on September 4, 1993 and I am shouting at cricket fans as they shuffle into Lord’s. To a man, woman and child, they ignore me.

Katya Witney: Women’s cricket at crossroads ahead of restructuring

15 September 2024 0 comments

September is weird. Cricket season desperately tries to extend the summer warmth, entering its sixth month as nights start to creep in.

John Turner’s high speed turning heads

15 September 2024 0 comments

The lure of the speed gun. John Turner admits that it can be hard to resist paying attention to the […]

England LD leading run scorer Dan Bowser opens up about being neurodivergent

15 September 2024 0 comments

By Evie Ashton I want to be that guy,” exclaimed a 10-year-old Daniel Bowser, gazing in awe at the television, […]

There’s Tea In Every Team – Because County Cricket Matters

15 September 2024 0 comments

By Annie Chave Recently, my cricket team played a friendly 20-over game. It was an absorbing contest that had me […]

Mark Butcher on Gus Atkinson: A new star with old-fashioned virtues

8 September 2024 0 comments

An incredible start to Gus Atkinson’s Test career. His century at Lord’s was outrageous, it will be fascinating to see how he develops.

Angus Brown wants professional contracts in the disability game

8 September 2024 0 comments

By Evie Ashton The past three weeks have seen England Men’s Physical Disability player Angus Brown compete in the ECB’s […]

WHERE ARE WE GOING AND HOW DO WE GET THERE?

8 September 2024 0 comments

Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler It is all very well agreeing a “direction of travel” but what happens when you […]

Russel Arnold fears for Test future

8 September 2024 0 comments

By Richard Edwards REGARDLESS OF the result of the Oval Test, this has been a good summer for England in […]

Derek Pringle column: DRS protocols over lbw need to change now

1 September 2024 0 comments

Master and apprentice is a phrase you often hear when Joe Root and Harry Brook are at the crease together. Yet the roles could so readily have been reversed in the Second Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s, after the Decision Review System had both men lbw to balls clipping leg-stump.