Tammy Beaumont to Retire From International Cricket After Lord's Test

England opener Tammy Beaumont is retiring from international cricket. Her final appearance will be the ongoing Test against India at Lord's. It is the first-ever women's Test played at the historic ground. It also marks the 261st international of her career.

Beaumont made her England debut in 2009. She went on to play 260 matches across formats before this farewell Test. She leaves as England's leading century-maker in ODIs with 12 hundreds, the most by any England woman. She was Player of the Tournament at the 2017 ICC Women's World Cup on home soil. She finished that tournament as the leading run-scorer with 410 runs, as England lifted the trophy.

Her Test record stands out too. In 2023, she became the first Englishwoman to score a Test double-century, with an unbeaten 208 against Australia at Trent Bridge. That knock put her among a small group of players, 2 from England and 5 in the world, to have scored an international century in all 3 formats of the game. Across all formats for England, she has scored 7,325 runs.

Beaumont was part of the first group of 18 players to receive an England Women's Central Contract, back in 2015. That was a milestone in the sport's move toward professionalism. She said playing for England for nearly 17 years had been the greatest honour of her career. She is not done with the game entirely, and will continue playing domestic cricket for The Blaze and Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred.

England Women's managing director Clare Connor called her contribution remarkable. She pointed out that Beaumont started her England career in the amateur era and went on to become one of the most complete batters the women's game has produced.