​England opener Tammy Beaumont has revealed that she will retire from international cricket after the one-off Test against India at Lord’s, which is set to begin on Friday. The 35-year-old will bring down the curtain on a storied international career that began in 2009. “Playing for England for nearly 17 years has been the greatest honour,” Beaumont said. “When I fell in love with playing cricket as a young girl, I barely knew that representing England was an option, and it fills me with pride to think how many girls and boys have been inspired, especially this summer, and how far the game has come in our country. We’ve always aimed to carry the cap forward for the next generation, and the time has come for me to hand over that privilege to the next generation of England players.” She added, “This Test match at Lord’s – our first-ever women’s Test at Lord’s – feels like the perfect moment to bid farewell to a career that I could never have imagined being as special as it has been.”
Beaumont made her England debut in 2009 and has gone on to play 260 international matches. She stands as England Women’s leading ODI century maker, with 12 hundreds to her name. Across formats, she has represented England in 11 Tests, 140 One-Day Internationals, and 109 Twenty20 Internationals. Her 12 ODI centuries remain an England women’s record. A standout moment in her career came in 2017 when she was named Player of the Tournament as England clinched the Women’s World Cup on home soil, finishing the event as the competition’s top run-scorer with 410 runs.
More recently, Beaumont faced a setback when she was left out of England’s squad for the latest Women’s T20 World Cup, which Australia won by seven wickets in the final at Lord’s last Sunday. Her omission followed her return to England’s T20I side after a more than two-year absence in the format between January 2022 and March 2024. Although she did not feature in any T20Is during England’s Ashes tour of Australia at the start of last year, Beaumont did play in all five T20Is against India during their tour of England last summer before missing the most recent World Cup squad. She was also part of England’s squad that was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup.
In 2023, Beaumont became the first England woman to score a double century in Test cricket, belting 208 in the Women’s Ashes Test at Trent Bridge. She is one of only two England women, and one of five England players overall, to have scored an international century in all three formats of the game. As Beaumont closes this chapter, fans and teammates alike will remember her for her consistency, her leadership, and the enduring impact she has had on England cricket.