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Ending speculation, the PCB on Wednesday announced Doha, Qatar as the venue for hosting the inaugural edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) from February 4-24 next year.

Why is Moeen Ali batting at 8? Sometimes she bowls, sometimes not.

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.

Just as the eventual scoreline of 3-2 in England’s favour did not alter Clarke’s feelings about the overall series, victorious captain Alastair Cook was unchanged in his opinion.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has summoned spot-fixing hit duo Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif to attend an anti-corruption lecture. The ICC also banned the three players; Amir for five years, Asif for seven years with two years suspended and Salman for 10 years with five years...

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.

India ensured Kumar Sangakkara’s retirement from worldwide cricket ended in heavy defeat as they completed a resounding 278-run victory to level the Test series with Sri Lanka.

Clarke said he felt for fans who had bought day-four and day-five tickets, but had missed out on the action. “So that to me means it hasn’t hit me yet”.

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.

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.

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...