England Cricket Team: Match Schedule, Players, Stats

The England men's national cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket. Since 1997, it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). England was one of the first teams to play a Test match (15–19 March 1877). They have appeared in the final of the Cricket World Cup four times, finishing runners-up in 1979, 1987 and 1992 and winning the tournament in 2019. The England cricket team has intense rivalries with other Test-playing nations, most notably with Australia, their opponent of the famous Ashes series.

The likes of WG Grace, Geoffrey Boycott, Tony Greig, Ian Botham, Graham Gooch and Nasser Hussain among others, have given English cricket its own classic flavor. It has been followed by an even better generation of stars such as Michael Vaughan, Andrew Flintoff, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Alastair Cook, James Anderson and more.

In 2010, England National Cricket Team achieved their first-ever World Cup win, winning the World Twenty20 tournament under the captaincy of Paul Collingwood. In 2011, the team failed to impress in the 2011 Cricket World Cup and was beaten by hosts Sri Lanka in the quarterfinals. The English cricket team had a horror run in the 2015 World Cup, crashing out of the group stages with a defeat to Bangladesh.

But post that, under the leadership of now retired skipper Eoin Morgan, the team transformed their approach in the limited-overs format. That transformation worked wonders as England won the 2019 ODI Cricket World Cup, their first since the tournament was born in 1975. The final against New Zealand at Lord's is described by many as "the greatest ODI in the history of cricket." Both the match and the subsequent Super Over were tied. England won on the count of having scored more boundaries throughout the match.