Sydney is used to rain. More days are lost to weather at the SCG than any other Test venue in the world. Drizzle eventually arrived late on day two of the fifth Ashes Test, but by then the damage had already been done. For England, this was not a slow soaking from the clouds – […]

Will we ever stop talking about Harry Brook? Probably not. And that, in many ways, is the point. Throughout this Ashes series, no England player has provoked more conversation, more debate, or more collective head-in-hands moments than Brook. From the flat-bat slogs in Perth to the reckless drive in...

Todd Murphy knows exactly what is coming if he is handed the ball at the Sydney Cricket Ground. England will not sit back. They will come hard, they will come early, and they will look to put Australia’s young off-spinner under immediate pressure in the final Test of the Ashes. Murphy, though, sou...

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...