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"That ship has sailed": Joe Root not interested in ODI captaincy vacancy

Speaking to Sky Sports, Root played down any chance of him taking the reins again in an England shirt

Jonny Bairstow: "I can load the gun, but I won't be the one pulling the trigger"

NICK HOWSON: Centrally contracted for the entire upcoming summer, and yet the England and Yorkshire wicketkeeper-batter is on the fringes, keen for one more opportunity

From "luckiest guy alive" to "hardest winter" - Jordan Cox ready to bounce back from winter that was so close, yet so far

OSCAR RESS - INTERVIEW: A broken thumb, three days before his Test debut, curtailed his golden opportunity, but the batter hopes scoring a thousand County Championship runs for Essex can propel him back into the England team

England A win women's tour opener against Australia

Paige Scholfield top-scored as England won for the first time this year in Australia, having been whitewashed in the Women's Ashes in January and February

"I've had a lot of learning over the past few months": Ben Duckett reflects on tough winter

GEORGE DOBELL: England's all-format opener was in a reflective mood after a winter which he admitted "hurt so much" but is hungry for success during a big year for him and his team

England Lions to face India A in pair of red-ball matches

Kent will host the first of those, beginning on May 30, at Canterbury, before Northamptonshire stage the second from June 6

Shoaib Bashir: Can the loan system be relied upon to develop England's frontline spinner?

OSCAR RESS: Glamorgan will be the fifth team the off-spinner has appeared for in his last 16 first-class matches which is an unacceptable level of instability

England's Shoaib Bashir secures three-match County Championship loan move

For the second summer in a row, the off-spinner is taking his leave from Somerset in search of playing time

Jordan Cox suffers red-ball wicketkeeping blow ahead of 2025 season

OSCAR RESS: Michael Pepper, who performed the role in all 10 of his Division One matches last season, will start the season as Essex's County Championship wicketkeeper

Established deputy or leftfield alternative: How will England Women replace Heather Knight as captain?

NICK FRIEND: Nat Sciver-Brunt seems the likeliest replacement for Knight, who has left her role after the Women's Ashes whitewash, but where else might a new head coach go?

England A captains unveiled as Danielle Gibson's injury heartache continues

Grace Scrivens and Hollie Armitage, who will captain Essex and Durham this season, will lead in the T20 and 50-over series, respectively, against Australia A

"I think she'd be brilliant": How Charlotte Edwards emerged as frontrunner for England Women's job

NICK FRIEND: There was a sense when Lisa Keightley left her role with England in 2022 that the job had come at the wrong time for Edwards, still young in her coaching journey; now, as the standout coach in the women's game, this feels like her moment

England seamer smashed for most expensive IPL spell

Sunrisers Hyderabad compiled 286 for 6 from their innings as Jofra Archer, playing his first IPL game since 2023, went wicketless for 76 runs in his four-over spell

"He carried England's dodgy batting on his dodgier back": Michael Atherton was his team's rock

BBC's chief cricket reporter STEPHAN SHEMILT explains why the former England captain, who thrived in an era of great Test bowlers, is his favourite cricketer

For nine years, Heather Knight couldn't have given more

NICK FRIEND: Knight won a World Cup, reinvented herself as a batter and a leader, guided England through various stages of professionalisation and managed her squad through the pandemic, but neither captain nor coach could survive an Ashes whitewash