TAMMY BEAUMONT will retire from international cricket at the end of the Test match against India, which starts on Friday.

The first ever women’s Test at Lord’s will double as Beaumont’s farewell as the England opener calls time on a glittering career.

The 35-year-old has made 260 appearances for England since her debut in 2009, and departs as England’s leading female ODI centurion with 12 hundreds to her name.

Beaumont is one of only two English women – and five English players – to have scored an international century in all three formats of the game, and was the first English woman to record a double century when she made 208 against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2023.

“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 playing cricket for England was an option and it brings me so much joy to think how many girls and boys have been inspired, this summer especially, and how far the game has come in our country.

“We’ve always wanted to take 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.

“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.”

Beaumont is among the last of the “originals” who got the first batch of professional contracts in the women’s game, with Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Amy Jones the only others still active in the game.

Those contracts came in 2015, and two years later Beaumont was named player of the tournament as England lifted the Women’s World Cup on home soil, having been the top scorer in the competition with 410 runs.

Beaumont, who players for The Blaze and Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred, said she will continue to play domestically.