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Beaumont’s Lord’s farewell
Tammy Beaumont will retire from international cricket after the one-off Test against India at Lord’s, which begins on July 10, ending a 17-year international career.
“ANI |Updated:Jul 09, 2026 01:34IST London [UK], July 9 (ANI): England veteran batter Tammy Beaumont will retire from international cricket following the historic one-off Test against India at Lord's from July 10 onwards, bringing down the curtains on one of the finest careers of women's international cricket spanning 17 years”
The 35-year-old leaves as England Women’s record century-maker in ODIs with 12 hundreds, and she is one of only two English women to score international centuries in all three formats.
In 11 Tests, Beaumont scored 612 runs in 18 innings at an average of 34.00, with a highest score of 208, and in 140 ODIs she made 4,738 runs at an average of 40.49.
In 109 T20Is, she scored 1,975 runs at an average of 24.08 and a strike rate of 110.08, and she became the first Englishwoman to score a Test double-century with 208 against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2023.
Beaumont said, “This Test match at Lord’s – our first ever women’s Test at Lord’s – feels like the perfect occasion to sign off on a career that I could never have dreamt would be as special as it has been.”
Quotes, context, and timing
Beaumont told BBC Sport, “It's been an emotional week since I made the final decision,” describing conversations with Lottie [head coach Charlotte Edwards] over the past few months about where the team was going.
She said the moment she had “been left out of a squad” without the “fire to go again” came earlier this summer when Edwards left Beaumont out of the one-day international squad against New Zealand.
In the same BBC interview, Beaumont added, “Most of us want to play Test cricket but not in a tokenistic kind of way, in a way that we can really sink our teeth into it and try to master it.”
Sky Sports said Beaumont will retire at the end of the Rothesay Test match against India and that she will continue to play domestic cricket after ending her England career Wednesday 8 July 2026.
Clare Connor, managing director of England Women, said, “Tammy has made a remarkable contribution to the England Women's cricket team, and we will miss her incredibly,” as Beaumont prepares for her final appearance at Lord’s.
Legacy and what follows
Beaumont’s retirement comes after she was among the first group to receive central contracts for England Women in 2015, and after strong performances at the 2016 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
“For most of us, freshers' week at university takes at least another week on top of that - or two - to recover from”
ANI News said she scored 484 runs across the ODI and T20I series against Pakistan and registered her maiden international century, and it also noted she was named ‘Player of the Tournament’ in 2017 when England won the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup on home soil.
The News Mill reported Beaumont reached new heights in 2017 as ‘Player of the Tournament’ with 410 runs in nine innings at an average of 45.55, with a century and a fifty, topping the run charts.
Sky Sports said Beaumont has made 260 appearances for her country since debuting in 2009, and it described her as England Women’s leading ODI centurion with 12 hundreds.
Beaumont said she wants to “hand over that privilege to the next generation of England players,” framing the Lord’s Test as a handover after nearly 17 years representing England.
