The Tonga and Samoa series were well received and a success for England, but all the games were staged at stadiums with capacities up to 25,000 in rugby league’s traditional heartland. However, the expected appetite for Australia’s visit has prompted the Rugby Football League and RL Commercial to think bigger – with the 90,000-capacity Wembley...
Latest scorecard from the first women’s Twenty20 match between Australia A and England A at Sydney’s Hurstville Oval. View original article...
England senior coach Richard Wigglesworth is set to join the British and Irish Lions coaching staff for this summer’s tour of Australia. Lions boss Andy Farrell has recruited the former England scrum-half, 41, as part of an Ireland-influenced coaching group. Ireland interim head coach Simon Easterby is also expected to join Farrell’s team, while the...
Australia produced another dominant all-round performance to thrash New Zealand by 82 runs and secure a T20 series win in Mount Maunganui. Chasing 205 in the second T20, world champions New Zealand were bowled out for 122 in 16.1 overs, with Annabel Sutherland taking 4-8 and leg-spinner Alana King 3-27. Amelia Kerr made 40 but...
Beth Mooney hit an unbeaten 75 as Australia thrashed New Zealand by eight wickets in the opening T20 in Auckland. Chasing 138, Mooney and opening partner Georgia Voll put on a stand of 123 to help the tourists reach their target inside the 14th over. The pair struck a national record of 77 inside the...
Australia all-rounder Grace Harris has signed for Surrey as this year’s overseas player. The 31-year-old, who plays for London Spirit in The Hundred, will be available from the fixture against Hampshire Hawks at the Kia Oval on 5 June – the county’s first home Vitality Blast fixture of the season. Harris has played 51 T20...
England will attempt to regain the Ashes when they head to Australia next winter having drawn a thrilling series 2-2 on home turf in 2023. The success of the attacking approach to Test cricket fostered by coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes will be judged, for a large part, on the outcome of that...
England A have named their three squads for the upcoming tour to Australia. They will play three T20s, three 50-over matches and a four-day match against Australia A between 26 March and 15 April. Alice Capsey and Danielle Gibson – who feature in the 50-over and four-day squads – were part of England’s Ashes squads...
The 150th anniversary fixture between England and Australia to celebrate the first men’s Test match will be a day-night contest at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Cricket Australia has said the one-off fixture will take place at the MCG, which has a capacity of approximately 100,000, from 11-15 March 2027. The MCG played host to the...
