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After winning the Ashes series 3-2 against Australia, England has climbed three spots to third position in the global Cricket Council Test team rankings.

Australia’s captain Michael Clarke receives a guard of honour from his Australia teammates as he leaves the field after Australia wrap up the game on the fourth day of the fifth Ashes cricket test match between England and Australia at The Oval cricket ground in London, on...

England captain Alastair Cook has been fined 40 per cent of his match fee because of the team’s slow over-rate in the loss to Australia in the fifth Ashes test.

England captain Charlotte Edwards is looking for major improvements when she leads her team out against Australia at Chelmsford knowing that nothing short of victory will keep the Ashes series alive.

England captain Alastair Cook cautioned against taking Bell’s comments at full face value, and was clear that he would encourage his colleague to stay on for the challenges ahead.

Peter Siddle made the breakthrough when he trapped Mark Wood lbw for six before Jos Buttler chipped Mitchell Marsh to mid-off for 42.

He bowled in the nets yesterday, but was at about 60-70% and that’s not how you go into a game.

The Daily Telegraph revealed last month that Andrew Strauss, the England team director of cricket, had sent the Test venues an email which was interpreted as calling for pitches to be on the slower side. The Ashes 2015, which England won 3-2, earned the dubious record of being...

Meanwhile, Cook could not hide his delight at winning the series 3-2 after losing 5-0 in Australia in 2013-14.

The series equalled in length the shortest five-Test series of modern times of 18 days that took place when England played the West Indies in 2000.

However, with Root galvanising the middle order and crop of talented players emerging, this team look poised to avoid the pitfalls that have led to previous England Ashes winners soon falling apart. “The boys did as I asked, it was a test of our character and we came...

The Lancashire seamer sustained a side strain in England’s win over the Baggy Greens at Edgbaston and was forced to watch the next Test from the dressing room as his team mates wrapped up the series at Trent Bridge.

With this wicket began England’s collapse. It was 27 deliveries before he scored the next eight runs to reach his century, which he then celebrated with a heave over long-off for six.

Michael Clarke will retire as possibly the greatest Australian cricketer ever to have never won an Ashes series in England. Unfortunately, he could knock off just 15 of those before a booming bouncer from Ben Stokes induced a faint edge.

A rampant Stuart Broad took eight wickets as England ripped out shell-shocked Australia for 60 in an extraordinary and dramatic start to the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge on Thursday.