England opener Tammy Beaumont has announced her retirement from international cricket after the one-Test series against India at Lord’s, which starts on Friday.The 35-year-old will end an international career that began in 2009. “Playing for England for almost 17 years has been a great honour,” said Beaumont.“When I first fell in love with cricket as a young girl, I didn’t know that playing cricket in England was the right thing to do and it makes me really happy to think how many girls and boys have been inspired, especially this summer, and how the game has reached our country,” she said.“We have always wanted to take the cup forward to the next generation and the time has come for me to pass on that opportunity to England players.”“This Test at Lord’s – our first women’s Test at Lord’s – feels like the perfect moment to leave a job that I never expected to be as special as it was.”Beaumont made his England debut in 2009 and has played 260 international games. She is England’s Women’s ODI century maker, with 12 hundreds.He has represented England in 11 Tests, 140 One Day Internationals and 109 T20 Internationals. Her 12 ODI runs remain a record for England women.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.Beaumont was recently left out of England’s squad for the most recent 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 came despite his return to England’s T20I squad after a two-year absence from January 2022 to March 2024.Despite not playing any T20Is during England’s Ashes tour of Australia earlier last year, Beaumont featured in all five T20Is against India on their tour of England last summer before missing out on the latest 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 England’s first woman to have two centuries in Test cricket when she made 208 in the Women’s Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.She is one of two England women, and one of five England players, to reach a century in all three forms of the game.