Kate Cross to Retire from Cricket at End of Summer
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- Kate Cross announced her retirement from cricket at the end of the summer, ending a 102-cap England career that ran from 2013 to 2025.
- The 34-year-old seamer has been playing domestic cricket since losing her England contract last year under new coach Charlotte Edwards, with her last international an ODI against India last July.
- Cross made her England debut aged 22 in a T20 in the West Indies and featured in England's 2013-14 Ashes win — the team's most recent Women's Ashes victory.
- She fell out of favour across formats and famously watched England's iconic 2017 World Cup win at Lord's from a hospitality box before regaining her place in the Test and 50-over side.
- Cross finishes her career with 25 Test wickets, 101 ODI wickets, and 14 T20 wickets.
- Lancashire chair Dame Sarah Storey called her a "true Lancashire legend," noting Cross made her county debut aged 14 as the first woman on Lancashire's academy.
- Cross played in The Hundred final for Sunrisers Leeds last weekend and is due to finish the season with Lancashire, including a fixture against The Blaze on Sunday.
Why it matters: Cross's retirement closes a chapter on the 2013-14 Ashes generation — England's most recent Women's Ashes-winning squad — and ends a Lancashire career that began when she joined the county's academy at 14. England already moved on from her when Edwards dropped her last summer, so her exit formalizes a transition that had already begun.
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