England opener Tammy Beaumont has announced she will retire from international cricket after the one-off Test against India at Lord’s, which starts on Friday.The 35-year-old will bring down the curtain on an international career that began in 2009. “Playing for England for almost 17 years has been the greatest honour,” said Beaumont.“When I fell in love with playing cricket as a youngster, I hardly 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, especially this summer, and how far the game has come in our country,” he said.“We’ve always wanted to take the plug forward for the next generation and the time has come for me to pass that privilege on to the next generation of England players.”“This Test match at Lord’s – our first women’s test at Lord’s – feels like the perfect opportunity to sign off on a career that I never dreamed would be as special as it has been.”Beaumont made his England debut in 2009 and has played 260 international games. She is England’s women’s ODI century scorer, with 12 hundreds.He has represented England in 11 Tests, 140 One Day Internationals and 109 T20 Internationals. Her 12 ODI centuries remain an England women’s record.One of the biggest moments of her career came in 2017, when she was named Player of the Tournament as England won the Women’s World Cup on home soil. Beaumont finished the tournament as the highest scorer with 410 runs.More recently, Beaumont was left out of the England squad for the last Women’s T20 World Cup, which ended with Australia beating the hosts by seven wickets in the final at Lord’s last Sunday.His omission comes despite returning to England’s T20I side after spending more than two years out of the format between January 2022 and March 2024.Although he did not play any T20Is during England’s Ashes tour of Australia early last year, Beaumont featured in all five T20Is against India during their tour of England last summer before missing out on the final World Cup squad.She was also part of the England team 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 when she made 208 in the Women’s Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.She is one of only two English women, and one of five English players overall, to have scored an international century in all three formats of the game.