Tag

England will aim to seal the five-match series after taking a 2-1 lead following an eight-wicket win over title holders Australia in Birmingham.

England spearhead James Anderson has been ruled out of the fourth Ashes Test, and will miss the remainder of the Edgbaston Test with a side strain.

Finn, who wasn’t a regular choice for the Ashes 2015 and came as a substitute in the playing XI for injured Mark Wood, has shown that his hard work has brought him back to the ideal line and length that helped him in becoming the youngest English player to bag 50 Test wickets.

Only 33 men have been ordained into that club of glovemen over the course of 138 years, while nearly half as many again (45) have led their nation on to the Test match field.

“I do not accept this selection of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor because only a few chose him”, Mullah Abdul Manan said.

Aside from the cloud hovering over Anderson, the day belonged to the resurgent Finn, who claimed 5-45 in what is his first Test match for more than two years, as England ripped through Australia. Now I’m just running up and bowling, thinking about what the ball’s doing.

The win sets up Nadal to play clay specialist Pablo Cuevas on Friday in the quarterfinals.

Finn then made it two in two balls by taking the wicket of Adam Voges to leave the home fans delirious.

Bowling 33 overs without success in England’s second test defeat by Australia at Lord’s knocked the confidence of paceman James Anderson who returned to form with a bang yesterday.

Taliban insurgent leaders were preparing to attend a second round of negotiations with Afghan officials, prodded by Pakistani authorities amid a thaw in their long-chilly relations with Kabul, and reinforced by a supportive recent statement from the supreme Taliban leader,...

England will be without James Anderson at Trent Bridge after their all-time leading wicket-taker suffered a side injury at Edgbaston.

At that time, Clarke was asked to comment on the “tremendous sex” he has enjoyed since taking over Australia’s captaincy. “Jimmy [Anderson] showed his class in the first innings of this game and his record at Notts is very good, so maybe it’ll be a...

England’s momentum was stifled to some extent in the afternoon as David Warner flashed his blade but even the lively left-hander is vulnerable and his innings ended on 77 when his side still needed 34 to avoid an innings defeat inside two days.

Nadal, a 14-times grand slam champion, has endured a hard year, surrendering his French Open title, suffering a shock defeat by journeyman Dustin Brown at Wimbledon and dropping to number 10 in the rankings.

Clarke wasn’t alone in failing here, with Nevill so far the only Australian to bat more than 100 balls despite what Warner called a “fantastic batting wicket”.