The Melbourne Cricket Ground has always carried a certain magic for Paul and Lisa Baker. This time, as England sealed a rare Ashes victory on Australian soil, it carried something else too – a quiet, overwhelming sense of closeness to a son they lost far too soon. In Australia, they say, they feel...

The Melbourne Ashes pitch has long been a symbol of tradition, drama and high summer theatre. Boxing Day at the MCG is supposed to deliver a slow-burning classic, five days of tension, narrative swings and heroic individual performances. Instead, this year’s contest was over almost as quickly as i...

England’s long, painful wait for a Test victory on Australian soil is finally over. In a match that defied logic, rhythm and even tradition, England won a staggering two-day Test in Melbourne, producing one of the most extraordinary Ashes moments of the modern era. The fourth Ashes Test at the Mel...

Cricket has always had room for prodigies, but every so often a performance arrives that feels genuinely disruptive — the kind that forces even the most seasoned observers to stop, rewind and ask whether they really saw what they thought they did. Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s astonishing List A century...

New Zealand signed off their home summer in emphatic fashion, crushing West Indies by 323 runs in the third Test at Mount Maunganui to seal a commanding 2-0 series victory. What unfolded over five days at the Bay Oval was a reminder of how ruthless the Black Caps can be when conditions, confidence a...

Nathan Lyon has made a career out of breaking English hearts, and on a raucous fourth evening at the Adelaide Oval he may just have delivered the decisive blow of this Ashes series. With a masterclass in late-day spin bowling, Lyon ripped the resistance from England’s chase and left Australia four...

England arrived in Adelaide knowing this Test could define their Ashes campaign. Two matches down, no room left for error, and a surface that promised runs rather than excuses. By the close of day two, however, the familiar feeling had returned. England’s Ashes hopes are fading fast, not because o...

England at the Crossroads: Time to Deliver in Adelaide Hindsight is a cruel comfort in elite sport. For this England team, now 2-0 down in the Ashes, it’s more than just a retrospective exercise—it’s a reckoning. As they approach a must-win third Test in Adelaide, questions about preparation, ...

The Ashes has a habit of stripping away comfort and exposing truth, and few matches capture that reality more sharply than the looming third Test in Adelaide. With Australia leading the series 2–0, the contest has already taken on an air of finality for England, while selection calls on both sides...

Michael Vaughan has lived through high-pressure moments on cricket’s biggest stages, but nothing prepared him for the fear of hearing gunshots ring out just yards away from where he was sitting with his family in Sydney. Speaking with raw honesty after the devastating Bondi attacks, the former Eng...