now expected to inherit a third world

The ECB has announced Lords will stage the final of the ICC Womens World Cup in 2017. The home of cricket was named as one of five venues - along with Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Somerset, and Gloucestershire - to host the 31 matches during the tournament which begins on June 26.The event returns to England for the first time since 1993, when England beat New Zealand to relive former glories after winning the first World Cup in 1973 at Lords against Australia. ECB director of events Steve Elworthy said: This is a very exciting time for the womens game in this country and staging a Womens World Cup here will really help drive interest and participation in womens cricket at every level.Its critical we use this event to reach out to young children in particular so weve moved the tournament start date to earlier in the summer - a decision which will help our host venues encourage attendance by engaging with schools in the build-up to the event. Englands Lydia Greenway and Heather Knight celebrate victory in third T20 of Womens Ashes Series v Australia in 2015 Clare Connor, ECBs Director of England Womens Cricket and chair of the ICC Womens Cricket Committee, said: At a global level, the introduction of the ICC Womens Championship has made our game more competitive and exciting than ever before. It has created global context and meaning to all our ODI series whereby the result of every match has a direct impact on qualification for next summers World Cup.In this country, last summers record-breaking attendances for the Womens Ashes series showed there is a growing audience and appetite for womens cricket - we witnessed excellent crowds, including full houses at Chelmsford and Hove, coupled with growing media and commercial interest.The launch of the new Womens Cricket Super League here later this year will give the womens game another significant fillip and help set the stage for what promises to be a fantastic showcase for our sport next summer. Also See: Womens cricket home Sportswomen Cricket fixtures/results Get Sky Sports Dwight Clark Super Bowl Jersey . The 31-year-old Spain midfielder hasnt played since Madrid lost in the Copa del Rey final to Atletico Madrid in May due to back and foot injuries. Mike Person Super Bowl Jersey . 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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- British heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill is in line to receive a third world championship gold medal after Russias Tatyana Chernova was stripped of the 2011 title on Tuesday for a doping violation.The Court of Arbitration for Sport also stripped Chernova of her bronze medal from the 2012 London Olympics and announced a new suspension for a separate blood doping offense.Two other female Russian runners -- Yekaterina Sharmina and Kristina Ugarova -- also received suspensions for biological passport violations.The IAAF referred the three cases to the arbitration court in February after Russias track and field federation was suspended for widespread doping in the country.CAS ruled Tuesday that all of Chernovas results between Aug. 15, 2011, and July 22, 2013, are annulled -- meaning she loses her gold from the 2011 world championships in Daegu, South Korea, and bronze from the 2012 London Olympics.Ennis-Hill, who finished second behind Chernova in Daegu, is now expected to inherit a third world title to go with her championships in 2009 and 2015.Ennis-Hill said the picture of Chernova beating her in 2011 was forever imprinted in my mind.However much it drove me on for what I was about to achieve at my first Olympics in London, in my heart I just knew it was wrong, Ennis-Hill wrote on Instagram after the CAS ruling. So happy to finally be receiving my gold medal. Triple World Champion WOW.Ennis-Hill also won the Olympic gold medal in London and took silver aat this years games in Rio de Janeiro.ddddddddddddChernova had previously been given a two-year ban backdated to 2013 after testing positive for a steroid when a sample from the 2009 world championships was reanalyzed.In position to receive Chernovas London bronze medal is the original fourth-place finisher, Lyudmila Yospenko of Ukraine.Russia had previously annulled Chernovas results between August 2009 and August 2011 -- dates which protected her Daegu gold and London bronze.Ennis-Hill had filed a complaint over the Daegu results with the IAAF, seeking to claim the gold.CAS said Tuesday that Chernova, Sharmina and Ugarova had all been found guilty of blood doping based on analysis of their biological passports, a system that tracks an athletes blood profile over time to detect signs of cheating.CAS handed Chernova a suspension of 3 years, 8 months, starting retroactively on Feb. 5, 2016. CAS said her previous two-year ban would be deducted from the sanction.Sharmina, a former European indoor 1,500-meter bronze medalist, received a three-year suspension backdated to Dec. 7, 2015. All her results between June 17, 2011, and Aug. 5, 2015, were annulled. That would include her gold medal at the 2013 University Games in Kazan, Russia.Ugarova received a two-year ban, backdated to Sept. 7, 2015, and loses her results from June 26, 2012, to Dec. 25, 2012. ' ' '