Bangladesh 154 for 5 (Tamim 80*, Shahadat 0*, Swann 3-40) trail England 599 for 6 (Cook 173, Collingwood 145, Pietersen 99, Bell 84) by 445 runs… Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell and Graeme Swann played starring roles as England moved into an impregnable position on the second day of the opening Test against Bangladesh. Colli…

England 374 for 3 (Cook 158*, Collingwood 32*) vs Bangladesh… Kevin Pietersen narrowly failed to follow Alastair Cook to three figures but nevertheless played a key role in England establishing an utterly dominant position in the opening Test against Bangladesh. Both made light of differing pressures to construct inning…

England 284 for 5 (Kieswetter 107) beat Bangladesh 239 for 9 (Aftab 46, Rahim 40, Bresnan 4-28) by 45 runs… Craig Kieswetter’s first England century set up an emphatic victory over Bangladesh in the third one-day international at Chittagong, completing a 3-0 whitewash. After England were put in at the Zohur Ahmed Chow…

England 261 for 8 (Morgan 110*, Cook 60, Shakib 3-32, Razzaq 3-52) beat Bangladesh 260 for 6 (Rahim 76, Kayes 63, Bresnan 3-51) by two wickets… Man-of-the-match Eoin Morgan’s stunning maiden one-day century for England wrapped up the series against Bangladesh with a game to spare. Morgan, who has a previous ODI hundre…

England 229 for 4 (Collingwood 75*, Cook 64) beat Bangladesh 228 (Tamim 125, Swann 3-32) by six wickets… Paul Collingwood demonstrated the value of experience to guide England to a comfortable victory over Bangladesh in the opening match of the one-day series in Mirpur. Set a testing 229 to win following Tamim Iqbal’s…

Australia 249 for 8 (Ferguson 55, Johnson 43*) beat England England 210 (Collingwood 56, Lee 2-22) by 39 runs … Already, two matches into this series, a pattern is developing as Australia claimed a 2-0 lead with 39-run victory at Lord’s. Once again they were put into bat and managed only a par score as [...]

Australia 260 for 5 (Ferguson 71*, Collingwood 2-47) beat England 256 for 8 (Bopara 49, Shah 40, Johnson 3-24) by 4 runs… It was a case of third time lucky at The Oval for Australia after it finally broke its hoodoo at the venue with a thrilling four-run victory in the opening one-day international over [...]

England 332 and 373 for 9 dec beat Australia 160 and 348 (Hussey 121, Ponting 66, Swann 4-120) by 197 runs… England won back the Ashes when they beat Australia by 197 runs on the fourth evening at the Brit Oval, capping a terrific series which offered a surprise at every turn. At 17.49pm, Mike [...]

Australia 160 and 80 for 0 (Watson 31*, Katich 42*) need 466 more runs to beat England 332 and 373 for 9 dec (Trott 119, Strauss 75, Swann 63, North 4-98) Australia will need to smash Test records if they are to deny England from reclaiming the Ashes in the decisive final Test at the [...]

England 307 for 8 (Bell 72, Siddle 4-63) v Australia… The loss of five wickets in the evening session undermined England’s hopes of posting a commanding total in the decisive final Ashes Test against Australia at the Brit Oval. Ian Bell matched Andrew Strauss’ feat in passing 50 as England, chasing the victory w…