The 29-year-old endured a difficult winter in red-ball cricket, with a top score of 43 in five matches across series in New Zealand and South Africa.

England begin their attempt to become double women's world champions on Saturday with new coach Lisa Keightley declaring they are 'planning for the final' and 'excited' about tournament.

Stuart Broad has spoken of the buzz that walking out at Trent Bridge still gives him, after putting pen to paper on a new two-year contract at Nottinghamshire.

England's trio of young spinners led them to the Women's Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals on Sunday with six wickets between them in an emphatic 46-run victory over West Indies.

NASSER HUSSAIN - VERDICT: The first thing England's women should do ahead of Thursday's Twenty20 World Cup semi-final against India is do whatever the opposite is of a rain dance.

The spread of coronavirus has brought the world of sport to its knees after multiple multi-million pound tournaments were postponed or cancelled as the death toll continues to rise.

The 24-year-old, who helped England win the 2019 World Cup, screenshot racist messages from an individual and posted them on his Instagram story on Monday evening.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The young and the fit are supposed to be better placed to deal with the coronavirus but Jack Leach, who suffers from Crohn's disease, is taking no chances.

ECB chief executive Tom Harrison has laid bare the severity of the financial implications if there is no cricket played in England due to Covid-19 - stating it would result in losses of £380million.

The Premier League had already warned their 20 clubs last month that they were budgeting for a £1.1bn loss because of refunds to broadcasters, ticket-holders and commercial partners.

Camelot is urging players to check their tickets for the life-changing amount of cash but the gaming giant said all it can reveal is the winner paid at a National Lottery retailer as opposed to online.

If the winner is an individual, their new-found fortune would catapult them into the Sunday Times Rich List of the 1,000 wealthiest people living in the UK or with British business links.

Simon Jones, 40, from Cardiff, appears grinning in the new wedding-themed commercial alongside other guests that was aired on Monday to advertise the £69million Euromillions jackpot.

The move follows a study showing chain stores are closing outlets at a record rate of 16 a day, ripping the heart out of communities and creating ghost towns.

Giles Knibbs (pictured) who worked at Camelot in Watford, told his ex-partner John Coleyshaw that Edward Putman had not paid him his agreed share of the fraudulent winnings.

Edward Putman, 54, of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, is accused of working with an insider to con the lottery operator Camelot into handing over an unclaimed jackpot.

The excitement has been building so much for the blockbuster jackpot that lottery players managed to crash the website earlier this evening in the scramble to get a ticket.

One UK ticket holder has won the EuroMillions jackpot to become the country's biggest ever winner. The life-changing haul will make the winner richer than pop star Ed Sheeran.

Twenty-five winners who hit the jackpot over 25 consecutive years of The National Lottery. The National Lottery celebrates its first ever draw on November 19, 1994.

Sarah Cockings (pictured), 36, who lives in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, with her partner and three children, won £3,045,705 on April 30, 2005, when she was just 21.

National Lottery operator Camelot said the prize will be paid out at a ticket validation appointment before the winner decides whether to go public. A UK ticket-holder won a £170 million jackpot in October.

One lucky individual has bagged themselves a life-changing sum of money in the EuroMillions draw tonight, just weeks after Steve and Lenka Thompson won a incredible £105 million.

Anwar Batson, 29, of Notting Hill, West London, used a hacking program called 'Sentry MBA' while carrying out the offences. He admitted four charges at Southwark Crown Court today.

Despite winning the £1 million jackpot on Saturday, Didzis Pirags who works as a chef in Broughton, Preston, still worked all the way through Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

John and Allison McDonald, of Stockton on Tees, County Durham, matched all six numbers on a Lucky Dip ticket then found out three days later that their son Ewan, 15, was cancer free.

Anwar Batson has been jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to four offences under the Computer Misuse Act, at Southwark Crown Court today. He used 'Sentry MBA' programme.

Father-of-two Mark Goodram, 36, from Bolton, claims to have bought the winning scratchcard from a Waitrose supermarket in Clapham, south London, in April last year.

The National Lottery EuroMillions winning numbers on Tuesday were 05, 07, 08, 16 and 20 - while the Lucky Stars were 02 and 12. One player matched all five numbers and the two Lucky Stars.

A UK winner of a £57million EuroMillions jackpot is yet to claim the huge prize more than a week after winning - and may not know they are a multi-millionaire (pictured, The National Lottery sign).

Ryan Hoyle, a 38-year-old joiner from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has been revealed as the EuroMillions winner of £58million, seeing him rank ninth on the National Lottery millionaires' list.

The National Lottery website and app are back up and running ahead of tonight's £5million draw after being down for nine hours today due to a power failure.

Richard Millett, 50, launched libel action after Mr Corbyn made comments about him on television that he viewed as defamatory, MailOnline revealed last year.

Ancient DNA suggests the Philistines descended from migrants who crossed the Mediterranean and reached the shores of modern-day Israel, Palestine and Jordan more than 3,000 years ago.

Yahya Al-Saud (pictured), who is notorious for praising terrorism in Palestine, was greeted at Portcullis House by Labour frontbencher Fabian Hamilton.

He is busy promoting his new television series This Time Next Year, taking part in dozens of radio, TV and newspaper interviews. 

David Clennon, 76, says he did not submit an audition tape for Netflix project Sycamore/Hit and Run, produced by Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, because of his solidarity with people of Palestine.

Trump tweeted Friday about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'Like it or not, Tlaib and Omar are fast becoming the face of the Democrat Party. Cortez (AOC) is fuming, not happy about this!'

Eight-year-old Zakura, a young Bedouin girl who wants to become a doctor, is facing a race against time to avoid being sold as a child bride for 50 sheep soon after she starts her periods.

Jeopardy! is being slammed by critics after Friday's episode ruled that the birth place of Jesus Christ is in Israel not Palestine.

The long-running game show put the mistake down to 'human error in post-production' after the episode sparked backlash online, particularly from Palestinian advocacy organisations.

Barbara Greaves, from Ohio, reported her female Beagle, Trouble, missing from her East Palestine yard on January 3. Two days later, the dog's detached head was found on the owner's property.

Jnaid Salama, 30, also John D. Calvin, was arrested after his check for $10,995 surgery to change the shape and size of his nose was rejected. He gave it to a clinic in Seattle, Washington.

Lyn Boyd, who was elected to Durham County Council by 919 votes in 2017, was reported to the Labour Party on February 2 over a whole host of material allegedly shared on her Facebook timeline.

While she is known for her down to earth personality, rumours have started to swirl that radio host Jackie 'O' Henderson can also be quite the diva. 

Ms Abdel-Magied left Australia in 2017 after being heavily criticised over an April 25 tweet where she used the phrase 'lest we forget' to make a political point.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has been criticised for describing the age of the earth as a 'great mystery' even though almost all scientists agree that it is 4.54 billion years old.

The Florida congressman, who has been tirelessly promoting a bipartisan deal on immigration, said that his 'Gang of Eight' bill doesn't give any handouts to those who are living in the country without a green card.

The Republican senator for Florida (pictured) took to Twitter to issue a condemnation of Mr Obama's climbdown, saying 'we do need more degrees that lead to #jobs'.

The pair have been political allies for more than a decade but those close to Bush have started quietly spreading negative information about Rubio's record.

Monday's site is where the US processed Cuban exiles who fled Castro's communist regime. Rubio was accused of embellishing his parents' story to make it seem like they were among them.