Beaumont retires from England cricket at historic Lord's Test
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- Tammy Beaumont will retire from international cricket at the end of England's four-day Test against India at Lord's, live on Sky Sports from 10am Friday (11am first ball).
- The 35-year-old has made 260 appearances for England since debuting in 2009 and retires as the team's leading ODI centurion with 12 hundreds.
- Beaumont was player of the tournament when England won the 2017 ICC Women's World Cup on home soil, finishing as top scorer with 410 runs.
- She became the first English woman to score a Test double-century (208 at Trent Bridge in the 2023 Women's Ashes) and is one of only two English women — and five English players — to have scored an international hundred in all three formats.
- Beaumont was among the first players to receive an England Women's Central Contract in 2015; she was left out of the T20 World Cup squad and her last ODI was the 50-over World Cup semi-final against South Africa last October.
- She will continue playing domestic cricket for The Blaze and Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred after ending her England career.
- Clare Connor, managing director of England Women, said Beaumont's contribution is "impossible to put into words" and that the weight of runs she scored at the top of the order puts her "in the category of one of the game's great batters."
Why it matters: Beaumont's exit closes a 17-year chapter at the top of England's order, with her final match the first-ever women's Test at Lord's. England lose their most experienced ODI centurion as they begin a transitional cycle, leaving the next generation of openers to fill 260 caps of top-order know-how ahead of the 2027 Ashes.
