Tea England 56 for 1 (Strauss 33*, Bopara 23*) trail Australia 263 (Watson 62, Onions 4-58, Anderson 5-80) by 207 runs… Australia struck England an early first-innings blow, but could not undo the damage inflicted by swing specialists James Anderson and Graham Onions. Anderson and Onions claimed all nine Australian wick…

Australia 126 for 1 (Watson 62*) v England… Shane Watson survived his baptism as a Test opener to help Australia claim the upper hand on a hugely truncated opening day in the third Ashes Test against England. The effects of torrential rain at Edgbaston yesterday and further showers this morning delayed the start until 5…

Players and spectators alike were left frustrated as rain delayed the start of the third npower Ashes Test at Edgbaston. Despite groundstaff working through the night and the ground being bathed in sunshine this morning, the effect of yesterday’s torrential rain forced umpires Rudi Koertzen and Aleem Dar to delay the toss. …

Australia bowler Brett Lee has lost his battle to be fit for the third npower Ashes Test against England at Edgbaston. Lee, 32, was already regarded as doubtful with the side strain that had kept him out of the opening two games at Cardiff and Lord’s. Vice-captain Michael Clarke confirmed today Lee will not be [...]

England have named a 13-man squad for the third npower Ashes Test against Australia at Edgbaston, starting on Thursday. Warwickshire batsmen Ian Bell comes into the squad for the injured Kevin Pietersen, who has been ruled out of the series due to Achilles surgery last Wednesday. Durham’s Steve Harmison and Northamptons…

Glenn McGrath, the former Australian fast bowler, has said that Mitchell Johnson’s failure in the first two Ashes Tests was due to “mental issues rather than technical ones” and wants the bowler to keep things simple for the remainder of the series. “A lot of people will be giving Mitch all kinds of te…

Brett Lee’s chances of returning for next week’s third Test have been reduced after he was left out of Australia’s tour match against Northamptonshire on Friday. There was an outside chance Lee would be picked in an attempt to prove his fitness from a stomach injury that ruled him out of the first two Tests,…

England batsman Kevin Pietersen has been ruled out of the npower Ashes series after undergoing surgery for an ongoing Achilles tendon injury today. Pietersen was assessed by a leading specialist where the decision was made to undergo surgery which will rule him out of all cricket for up to six weeks. ECB chief medical officer…

England 425 and 311 for 6 dec (Prior 61, Collingwood 54) beat Australia 215 and 406 (Clarke 136, Haddin 80, Johnson 63, Flintoff 5-92, Swann 4-87) by 115 runs… In his last Test at the home of cricket, Andrew Flintoff broke England’s 75-year Lord’s curse with his first five-wicket haul since the Ashes-clinchi…

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…