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Looking back – South Africa v England in Cape Town 2010

5 January 2016 0 comments

…Monty Panesar clung on for a draw in the opening Ashes Test. Then there was Centurion and England went into the third Test with a 1-0 lead. After the getaway…

England’s Joe Root on his rise to World No.1

21 December 2015 0 comments

…to show people what I can do. ASHES WINNER: Root played a key role in helping England regain the Ashes in 2015 “I’ve obviously worked very hard along the way…

Club Spotlight – South Wilts CC

18 December 2015 1 comment

…Ashes. And all-rounder Glenn Maxwell took 25 wickets and hit 282 runs in his nine matches for the club three years ago. The latest Aussie to grace The County Ground…

Phillip Hughes – one year on

1 December 2015 0 comments

…match, Hughes made a determined 81 not out in the first Test of the 2013 Ashes series, during an Australian innings best remembered for Ashton Agar’s heroics at No.11. It’s…

Domestic and international cricket crowds in England increase

24 November 2015 0 comments

…twenty20 had 800 more spectators through the gates per game. The Ashes helped international attendances increase by 75,000 on 2014. ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said: “Across the summer attendances…

Mitchell Johnson – Erratic and electric, terrifying as well!

24 November 2015 0 comments

…bag for the Barmy Army. His confidence was shot and he seemingly struggled to cope with the invective from over the fence. After the Ashes debacle, the widespread belief was…

Warner has defied the doubters in style

18 November 2015 0 comments

…During the Australian summer of 2013-14 England travelled to fight the old enemy for the Ashes, and after a brief period of troubles off the field and a relatively lean…

Strauss is right in admitting limited thinking, writes Peter Hayter

18 November 2015 0 comments

…the slide. “It is really important we get to No.1 in Test cricket. That is a massive undertaking. “Winning the Ashes is a massive undertaking. But there will be times…

Innovation and passion in Connor’s revolution

10 November 2015 0 comments

…women’s 45-year Ashes drought in 2005. Stepping into her office at the ECB – where she is director of women’s cricket – is humbling. It is evident that what drives…

Looking back – New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 1985–86

10 November 2015 0 comments

…Australia. Then, as now, Australia were in a transitional phase, having returned from an Ashes tour with their tails between their legs and with criticism from the Aussie Press ringing…

Ali vows to become an opening all-rounder

3 November 2015 0 comments

…when Tests go to a final day means that it is hard to say what England’s first-choice bowling line-up really is. That this “weakened” side are currently reigning Ashes champions…

It was fast and furious but how many will miss the WACA?

20 October 2015 0 comments

…toilets are inadequate and buying food and beverages can take an eternity. Some probably missed Adam Gilchrist’s blistering 57-ball Ashes century in 2006 because they were stuck in the queues….

Tammy Beaumont: I must start scoring big

13 October 2015 0 comments

…Beaumont is focused on a return to England duty after agonisingly missing out on this year’s Women’s Ashes defeat. Beaumont, 24, last played for her country over a year ago,…

Looking back – England v Pakistan series 1992

12 October 2015 0 comments

…moaners and groaners of the game. And now they have achieved an Ashes win through reverse swing. “It is an art. We never got the credit we deserved.” This piece…

Club spotlight – Harold Wood CC

12 October 2015 0 comments

By Chris Bailey HAROLD Wood is a century-old institution in Essex but the club was forced to, quite literally, rise from the ashes after an arson attack destroyed their clubhouse…

Club spotlight – South Northumberland CC

6 October 2015 0 comments

…famously cremated, and the Ashes taken to Australia. In fact, it was not the first humiliating defeat dished out by the Australians that summer, as they had only a month…

England team to tour UAE announced

15 September 2015 0 comments

…order, with the Yorkshire batsman missing out on this squad after his poor Ashes series. Surrey’s Ansari is one of three spinners picked, Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali the others,…

Yours all year – The Cricket Paper to remain on sale throughout the winter!

11 September 2015 0 comments

FOLLOWING England’s success in this summer’s Ashes series, The Cricket Paper will be following the Three Lions every step of the way as they now go on to South Africa,…

Vote for your nominees in the Talk Home Mobile Asian Cricket Awards 2015

12 August 2015 0 comments

…of the year Moeen Ali, a member along with Adil Rashid of England’s victorious Ashes squad, added: “An event such as this, at the home of cricket, helps to give…

My life in cricket – Brett Lee, former Australia fast bowler

28 July 2015 0 comments

The 2005 Ashes was my favourite Test series and the second Test at Edgbaston is one of my favourite games, even though we lost by two runs. People think you…

Dream Team – Tom Cooper

21 July 2015 0 comments

…that in the Ashes. Everyone talks about Mitchell Johnson but he is just as quick and he swings it more. I played against him quite a lot and then we…

Morrant Young Gun – Cameron Steel, Durham MCCU and Middlesex batsman

21 July 2015 0 comments

…2006/07 Ashes in Perth and I remember going to the fifth day of that fourth Test with my dad, John, while my mum and sister went on a trip down…

Alastair Cook: Australia still favourites for the Ashes

15 July 2015 0 comments

England captain Alastair Cook believes Australia remain favourites to claim the Ashes urn despite England taking a 1-0 lead in Cardiff. The Three Lions won the first Test by 169…

Moeen Ali doubtful for Lord’s Ashes Test