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...
Players are not “listened to” over their scheduling concerns, says England captain Harry Kane. The next international window takes place between 2-10 June following the conclusion of the Premier League season on 25 May and the Champions League final on 31 May. Kane’s Bayern Munich are also set to be involved in the new expanded...
Jos Buttler made a half-century in his first innings since resigning as England’s white-ball captain but was unable to prevent Gujarat Titans from slipping to an 11-run defeat by Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League. Buttler acknowledged he had “reached the end of the road” when he relinquished the captaincy at the Champions Trophy...
On Tuesday 25 March, climate crisis and anti-genocide protesters across England came together to target insurance companies complicit in death and destruction around the world. A press release from Boycott Bloody Insurance explained that: groups from the climate justice, Palestine liberation and migrants rights movements, held protests in cities across England. Protests took place in...
Where Southgate, certainly towards the end of his reign, would break the news to new or unexpected call-ups on the day of a squad announcement, Tuchel confirmed with some players that they would be called up the evening before the big reveal. All players who were on Tuchel’s radar received a text in the days...
England manager Sarina Wiegman says Fran Kirby “brings a lot of experience and great vision” after she recalled the Brighton forward to the squad for their Women’s Nations League matches against Belgium next month. READ MORE: Kirby recalled to Lionesses squad to face Belgium Read article in full at source...
Director of rugby Phil Dowson said Northampton needed to look back “forensically” at the Leicester game to assess exactly why that performance happened. “There’s loads of context around it,” he told BBC Radio Northampton. “We’re a playing group, with a playing style, that requires a high level of connection and cohesiveness and we didn’t have...
England’s Jordan Cox is unlikely to keep wicket for Essex in the early months of the season following a broken thumb. Cox was three days away from making his Test debut in New Zealand last November when he suffered the injury in a net session. And his hopes of returning to the England squad will...
It is two wins out of two for England in World Cup qualifying to begin the Thomas Tuchel era. But what did you think of the teams the German head coach selected against Albania and Latvia? If you were picking an England team tomorrow and everyone was fit, would you go for a Tuchel XI...
England all-rounder Danielle Gibson has been ruled out of the start of the women’s domestic season with a stress fracture in her back. The 23-year-old felt discomfort during preparations for England A’s forthcoming multi-format series against Australia A in Sydney. A scan has revealed the extent of the injury and Gibson will now fly back...
Glamorgan have signed England spinner Shoaib Bashir on a short-term loan from Somerset. Bashir, 21, is joining for three County Championship games as cover for Mason Crane, who will miss the opening month of the season because of a shoulder injury. Surrey-born off-spinner Bashir impressed after being a shock choice for England’s tour to India...
From the win over Canada that secured England’s WXV1 title success in October, Mitchell made seven changes and some positional alterations to his starting XV, with the result a comfortable 38-5 victory in front of 8,391 supporters in York. In the early stages, no drop-off was evident. The Red Roses started in clinical fashion, the...
England extend their winning run to 21 games with a 38-5 win over Italy to get their Women’s Six Nations title defence off to a strong start at the LNER Community stadium in York. Read article in full at source...
After the Ashes humiliation, Edwards told the BBC Stumped podcast that she was keen to help England rebuild and Greenway added that her former team-mate’s coaching style would be the right method for the team’s progression. “In women’s cricket, we’ve had a number of different coaches who have had very different styles and I think...