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Ireland v England full scorecard

Thursday, 25 August 2011

Scorecard from the one-day international in Dublin won by England.

Graeme White is congratulated on the wicket of Durham's Ian Blackwell

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.

Stuart Broad celebrates a wicket during England's 4-0 whitewash of India

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.

For England the most troubling debate behind the celebrations here concerned the question of apportioning the glory and the blame.

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.

Sachin Tendulkar turns to see the dreaded finger has been raised – much to Tim Bresnan's delight

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.

Matt Prior guzzles the champagne

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

Ian Bell pulls the ball to the boundary in his magnificent innings at The Oval yesterday

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.

Hales hits ton to dent Durham title chances

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Nottinghamshire 270 Durham 44-3

From petulance to harmless backchat, Stuart Broad has grown up this last year

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's Tim Bresnan celebrates taking the wicket of India's Sachin Tendulkar

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.

Broad was nominated as the hosts' best player by the India camp

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.

Rahul Dravid acknowledges the crowd during his first-innings century

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'

B S Chandrasekhar

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's Tim Bresnan celebrates taking the wicket of India's Sachin Tendulkar

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.

England v India Live!

Monday, 22 August 2011

The latest scorecard from the fourth Test at The Oval.

'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.

Rahul Dravid

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

View From The Sofa: Cricket, Channel Five/Soccer Saturday, Sky Sports

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