Charlotte Edwards

The absence of any cricketers from the BBC's annual awards bash is another stark warning of the invisibility of the sport in the British mainstream

England's chances of retaining the Ashes will rest on overturning a confident Australia in three consecutive T20s, starting with Wednesday's match at "fortress Chelmsford"

ESPNcricinfo previews the sole women's Ashes Test between England and Australia

It was one of those days - one of those days that happens with alarming regularity - on which Meg Lanning made cricket look so much easier than everyone else she shared the field with

Australia reign as 50-over and T20 world champions but England are hoping to maintain their Ashes supremacy for the third series running

Charlotte Edwards has seen a transformation in England women's cricket and remains at the helm at the start of the multi-format Ashes series which begins with three Royal London ODIs - the first in Taunton on Tuesday

Charlotte Edwards, the England women's captain, has been named player of the year for the second year running to further confirm her continued importance to the team

A five-wicket haul from Kate Cross and a brisk 89 from Sarah Taylor led England Women to a series-leveling nine-wicket win against New Zealand Women in Lincoln

Stifling spells by Anya Shrubsole and Heather Knight dismantled New Zealand's batting in the first of the three T20s in the series helping England Women to a crushing win in Whangarei

Mitchell Johnson and Kumar Sangakkara are in contention to win the ICC's Cricketer of the Year award for a second time after the 2014 shortlists were announced

South Africa produced a better account of themselves at Wantage Road than they had done in the opening match, but England were ultimately too strong

England took the first honours in the Twenty20 series with a comfortable nine-wicket victory at Chelmsford having restricted South Africa to 89 for 4

Charlotte Edwards and Clare Connor talk about captaining England, rooming together, and how they used a 15-year-old to plot the downfall of Australia

Charlotte Edwards' ninth ODI hundred led England to their second consecutive win and gave them an unassailable 2-0 lead, when they beat India by 13 runs in the second ODI in Scarborough

England bounced back from their Test defeat to India with a comprehensive 42-run victory on the Duckworth-Lewis method in the first match of the Royal London one-day series

Charlotte Edwards, who was this week named England women's Player of the Year, has been awarded a CBE for services to cricket after captaining the team to back-to-back Ashes wins in 2013 and 2014

Charlotte Edwards, an England captain who was able to savour Ashes success home and away over the last 12 months, has been named the Women's Player of the Year

Mithali Raj and Meg Lanning scored half-centuries before four wickets for Sana Mir helped ensure victory for a Rest of the World XI against MCC at Lord's