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What England can still hope is for their last four wickets to carry on batting until the heavens open.

He said that “Michael has been a mainstay in the Australia team during a very successful period in its history”.

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.

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.

Siddle, playing his first match of the series, was far and away Australia’s best bowler at The Oval, taking four for 35 in England’s second innings as Australia won by an innings and 46 runs on Sunday.

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...

It was a charm, however, completely lacking from the 2015 Ashes, which ended with England winning the five-match series 3-2 despite Australia’s innings and 46-run win in the concluding Test at The Oval on Sunday.

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.

Sangakkara played from 2000 till 2015 and scored 12,400 runs in 134 Tests with 38 Hundreds and 52 Fifties with the highest score at 319.

Hereon, it was just a matter of time before Sri Lanka folded out. “That was the whole idea behind it”, Kohli said at the post-match press conference after India’s thumping win in the second Test here. Soon followed a boundary of over throws before the sublime...

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.

India captain Virat Kohli, whose team lost the first Test, said he was delighted to be playing in Sangakkara’s final match.

The match marks the farewell appearance for one of Sri Lanka’s legendary cricketers Kumar Sangakkara.