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Ireland v England full scorecard
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Scorecard from the one-day international in Dublin won by England.
Adams does damage to leave Durham title hopes in the balance
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Nottinghamshire 270 & 245 Durham 195 & 253 (Notts win by 67 runs): Durham's bid to regain the County Championship they surrendered to Nottinghamshire last year is not quite over but hangs by a thread.
County round-up: Chanderpaul makes light of Bears' depleted ranks
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Warwickshire may he short-handed after the loss of three bowlers and a batsman to a combination of injury and international calls but Shivnarine Chanderpaul underpinned their efforts to secure the win that will put them on the heels of title-favourites Lancashire by doing what he does best at Headingley yesterday.
Broad silences detractors after shaking off the enforcer tag
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Stephen Brenkley: England all-rounder admits that bowling full and being less irritable helped him to man-of-the-series award.
Aggressive Wessels helps set Durham tricky target
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Nottinghamshire 270 & 245 Durham 195 & 20-1: Durham must score a testing 321 to maintain their Championship challenge.
Cricket round-up: Ponting: Australia players are not 'lazy and overpaid'
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Former captain Ricky Ponting has rejected suggestions that Australia's players under his leadership were "overpaid and lazy", after a review into their decline from No 1 in the world in 2008 to their present ranking of fifth.
Today from i: England cricket captains
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Completing a 4-0 series whitewash over India yesterday capped an extraordinary summer for Andrew Strauss, England skipper, whosecaptaincy will go down in history along with these greats of yesteryear.
The boys of '66, Jonny in 2003... now all hail Strauss' men
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
James Lawton: By the time he came to The Oval, James Anderson had acquired the aura of a great bowler who had come to understand quite profoundly the extent of his powers.
Verve, skill and panache – the stuff of world champions
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
England 591-6 dec India 300 & 283: With the verve and skill of proper champions, England swept India aside yesterday.
England top of the world – but aiming higher
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Swann spins superb England to series whitewash over India but Strauss still not satisfied
Bell rises to third in ICC Test rankings
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Ian Bell has moved up to number three in the International Cricket Council Test rankings as well as the England batting order.
More games of patience will be needed to stay on top of the mountain
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
There is nothing quite like blasting the opposition into submission with more than a day to spare – and England have done a fair bit of that on their journey to the top of the Test mountain. But patience can be a useful tool to have in the kitbag, too.
Series in short: how the players rated
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
A look at how the England and India rated across the series.
England complete series whitewash
Monday, 22 August 2011
England 591-6 India 300 & 283 (England beat India by an innings and 8 runs): England denied Sachin Tendulkar nine runs short of a unique place in cricket history.
Planning key to series win, says Broad
Monday, 22 August 2011
All-rounder Stuart Broad felt England's pre-series planning was key to their whitewash of India.
Something From The Weekend: Rahul Dravid; Fan trouble in Mexico; Voeckler no match for horse
Monday, 22 August 2011
The Good, The Bad and The Odd
Dravid throws down gauntlet: Can you beat us on our own pitches?
Monday, 22 August 2011
England have been better side, admits Indian opener, but winning away will be their 'biggest challenge'
Rajan's Wrong 'Un: Mishra's struggles a bitter reminder of what India have lost
Monday, 22 August 2011
Chandrasekhar "could do things with the ball which were supernatural" said Richards
England complete series whitewash against India
Monday, 22 August 2011
England denied Tendulkar nine runs short of a unique place in cricket history to kickstart hectic surge to victory.
'The Wall' finally falls to leave England on brink of series whitewash
Monday, 22 August 2011
England 591-6 dec India 300 & 129-3: Nerveless Dravid's century restores Indian pride while Tendulkarremains at crease to set up dramatic fifth-day finish of final Test.
With Dravid's dismissal, the best of the Indian summer came to an end
Monday, 22 August 2011
James Lawton: Dravid was condemned to a losing campaign but after the details are forgotten some will surely remember the man who refused to abandon either his great talent or his pride
Smith spell fires Lancashire title hopes
Monday, 22 August 2011
Tom Smith took four wickets for just seven runs as Lancashire's bowlers needed only 55 minutes to wrap up their vital 98-run victory over Worcestershire in the County Championship at Blackpool on Saturday.
Robin Scott-Elliot: The Little Master perfectly caught by the cameras for Five
Monday, 22 August 2011
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