I've lost the fire to regain spot in new-look England side - Beaumont
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- Tammy Beaumont announced her retirement from international cricket at 35, with her final appearance coming in the one-off Test against India at Lord's starting Friday 10 July.
- Beaumont said being left out of the ODI squad against New Zealand this summer was the first time she'd been dropped without the fire to fight back, drawing a direct parallel with Ben Stokes' recent retirement announcement.
- Coach Mark Robinson promoted Beaumont to open the batting in 2016, and she became player of the tournament and leading run-scorer in England's 2017 home 50-over World Cup win.
- Beaumont has played only 12 Tests across 17 years and used her retirement interview to call for more women's Test cricket that isn't 'tokenistic,' arguing players need the chance to truly master the format.
- Beaumont has batted in every position from 1 to 11, is an Ashes double-centurion, and names Sciver-Brunt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Amy Jones and Heather Knight as the core group she grew up alongside.
- Lord's hosted more than 28,000 fans for the Women's T20 World Cup final on Sunday — which England lost to Australia — and now stages a women's Test for the first time in the venue's history.
Why it matters: Beaumont's exit closes a chapter on England's 2017 World Cup-winning core — alongside Sciver-Brunt, Knight, Jones and Wyatt-Hodge — as head coach Charlotte Edwards reshapes the side. Her call for more than one non-tokenistic women's Test every two years lands squarely on the ECB scheduling team at the moment Lord's hosts a women's Test for the first time, fresh off a 28,000-fan T20 World Cup final.
