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Kevin Pietersen suffered another worrying failure as England drew their tour match with Bangladesh A. Having made only 49 runs in six previous innings on tour, he made 20 but was bowled attempting a sweep shot. Read More
Life for England’s Ashes-winning heroes was soon back to mundane normality. Four days after their golden evening at The Oval, they spent Thursday battling through a Duckworth-Lewis match against Ireland in rainy Belfast. “It was soggy and there were maybe 2,000 in the ground," says Matt Prior. “It felt a bit like a Pro40 Division One match with Sussex.” After they had scraped home by three runs, Read More
IT'S not England’s job to feel sorry for Australian captains. But it was almost impossible not to feel gutted for Ricky Ponting when he was run out by that brilliant throw from Andrew Flintoff. Read More
Lord’s is the home of English cricket, and the sanctuary for the most prized possession in the sport; but it is the Oval where the most memorable Ashes moments have come. At ten minutes to six yesterday, on a glorious late summer’s evening, with just a hint of triumphalism in the air, the England cricket team, 2009 vintage, gave us another. Read More
THE roar of acclaim that greeted Jonathan Trott’s stupendous hundredon his Test debut yesterday at The Oval was long and loud and fi lled with pure emotion. It signalled not only one of the most remarkable entrances into the England team, it also sounded the start of a joyous countdown to the capture of the Ashes sometime today or tomorrow. Read More
AUSTRALIA’S weaknesses have been brutally exposed and as a result the Ashes seem destined to change hands for the third time in three series. Certainly the pitch lasted as long as a celebrity marriage and two dreadful umpiring decisions did not help but that is not enough to excuse a display that in equal measure lacked skill and composure. Read More
For the second time in four years at The Oval a South African-born cricketer has taken England to within tantalising reach of regaining the Ashes, lost in Australia in December 2006. Jonathan Trott’s workmanlike century in the fifth and final npower Test match yesterday may have lacked the panache and daredevilry of Kevin Pietersen’s 158 on the same ground in 2005 but it could prove every bit as
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As long as he plays cricket Stuart Broad may never find again the glory that came to him here yesterday. But there is another question and it is one that the retiring superstar he upstaged so utterly when driving the Australians to the point of Ashes defeat could, if he chose to, answer perhaps better than any man who ever claimed this historic stadium for his own. Read More
IF timing is everything, Stuart Broad chose the perfect afternoon and the most important stage of the summer to become the man of the moment yesterday. And Michael Clarke picked precisely the worst point to fall off his throne as the Man of The Ashes. Read More
If the 2005 Ashes will be remembered as the greatest series ever, then the 2009 series might go down as the series that made mugs of us all. True, the 2005 version ebbed and flowed, rocked and rolled and repeatedly confounded, but discernible patterns could at least be deciphered behind the madness.The 2009 Ashes has been as unpredictable - and dangerous, as far as the pundits are concerned - a Read More
It worked out just as we thought. Just as we hoped. Just as we prayed. The tall, fair all-rounder seized the day by the throat, redefined the possibilities of the match and may have had a decisive impact on the entire series. It might be one of the great performances of recent cricketing history. Read More
