England end the first day’s play at Lord’s with a score of 364/6 after Australia made a remarkable comeback into the match… England captain Andrew Strauss hit a superb century but Australia battled back towards the end of an absorbing opening day to the second Test. The Middlesex batsman finished the day unb…

Ricky Ponting believes Andrew Flintoff’s retirement announcement could prove a distraction for England throughout the Ashes series, much like Steve Waugh’s “farewell tour” disrupted the Australians during their 2003-04 home series against India. Ponting also predicted that his opposite number, Andrew S…

England 435 (Pietersen 69, Collingwood 64, Prior 56) and 252 for 9 (Collingwood 74, Hilfenhaus 3-37) drew with Australia 674 for 6 dec (Ponting 150, Katich 122, North 125*, Haddin 121, Clarke 81)… England mounted a stirring rearguard to salvage a draw in a sensational conclusion to the opening Ashes Test against Austral…

England 336 for 7 (Pietersen 69, Collingwood 64, Prior 56) v Australia… There was little to choose between these two teams in the lead-up to this eagerly anticipated Ashes series and hardly anything to split them at the end of an engrossing opening day at Cardiff. England were twice pulling away from Australia, but a [.…

Three Test centuries in a row from Ravi Bopara did not impress Shane Warne, who doesn’t think the allrounder is good enough for the international arena. Bopara starred against West Indies in his previous three matches, including two hundreds at No. 3, but Warne doubts his temperament. “Bopara is a good first-class…

Australia spent their first 24 hours in World Twenty20 exile paying the price for slow over-rates and arranging for Test-only players to fly to England two days earlier than originally scheduled. On a day Ricky Ponting had hoped would be occupied with net sessions and Super Eights strategy meetings, Australia instead awoke to…

Michael Hussey believes he can emerge from a lean Test run and regain the consistency that made him one of the game’s leading batsmen. Hussey will enter the Ashes without a hundred since the tour of India and an average in the mid-50s, a big drop on the mean of 84.80 he had early last [...]

Brett Lee and Stuart Clark will have to wait until the first two tour games to secure their spots in the bowling pecking order for the Ashes. Both men are coming back after lengthy injuries and must leapfrog a couple of the incumbents to win places in the opening Test of the series in Cardiff [...]

Ricky Ponting believes the Ashes schedule was changed deliberately to avoid England hosting the opening game at Lord’s, a ground they haven’t beaten Australia at in 75 years. The contest will start instead at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff from July 8, the first time a five-day fixture has been held in Wales. “La…

Allrounder Andrew Symonds has been omitted from Australia’s 16-man squad to defend the Ashes cricket series in England. Selectors announced the squad Wednesday, 50 days ahead of the series-opening match at Cardiff on July 8. Andrew McDonald was preferred to Symonds as an allrounder based on his performances in Australia…