Failure in the second Test is not an option – here’s how England can get the balance of the team right
The problem is, after how badly the batting went in the first Test, I can’t have a Test team with Ollie Robinson strolling out at number eight…
Ben Stokes cannot be picked on reputation alone – he was way off the pace in Ashes opener
The torment of Ben Stokes offers the starkest warning of what can happen when a talisman becomes undroppable. It was a seductive illusion, the idea that England’s…
Channelling the spirit of Len Hutton – how Joe Root can keep Ashes victory hopes alive
It is not the strongest of straws at which to clutch. Only once in the last hundred years – since 1912 in fact – have England come…
Poor shot or good ball? Our verdict on another woeful England batting collapse at the Gabba
Lyon is on a role now. He may have been stuck on 399 Test wickets for the best part of a year but it was mere minutes…
Why are we so bloody stupid? Time England answered with deeds, not words, to prevent Ashes disaster
Why are we so bloody stupid? We make it extra difficult before we even start the series. On the plus side, I thought Mark Wood and Ollie…
Australia vs England, first Ashes Test player ratings: Rory Burns struggles, Ollie Robinson impresses
Ben Stokes Too much to expect the talisman to inspire a fightback with so little cricket behind him but Australia will have noted how he was squared…
Jack Leach is no Nathan Lyon – and England should stop pretending otherwise
On the eve of the 1994/5 Ashes and a year-and-a-bit on since Shane Warne bowled Mike Gatting around his legs, the wrist-spinner was wheeled out to front…
Ben Stokes cannot be picked on reputation alone — he was way off the pace in Ashes opener
The torment of Ben Stokes offers the starkest warning of what can happen when a talisman becomes undroppable. It was a seductive illusion, the idea that England’s…
Joe Root: I was right to bat first and leave out Stuart Broad and James Anderson
Joe Root has insisted batting first at the Gabba was the “right decision” and defended leaving out England’s two leading all-time wicket-takers in favour of Jack Leach….
In one brutal session, Travis Head may have hit Jack Leach out of the Ashes
Before the first Test in Brisbane, Adam Gilchrist presented a new baggy green cap to debutant Alex Carey. The hope, perhaps, was that Carey would assume the…
Joe Root has got it completely wrong – his Stuart Broad snub will come back to haunt him
Everything can unravel so rapidly in Australia, which is why a Test match there is like hanging wallpaper: you have to get it right at the very…
Clever captaincy and superb control: Pat Cummins looks every inch the world-beater
Pat Cummins was once derided as Australia’s best-paid university student. He got his first national contract in 2011 and, even while he did not play another Test,…
‘It’s pathetic officiating’: Ben Stokes bowls 14 no balls – but is only called when he takes a wicket
This shouldn’t happen, and it is the third umpire’s role to make sure of it. In the summer of 2020, the ICC sensibly decided that the off-field…
Ashes 2021-22 Spotters’ Guide – What to look out for as the series gets under way at the Gabba, Brisbane
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Listen to Sir Geoffrey Boycott’s Ashes verdict: What England’s batsmen must do to stand a chance in the Ashes
When he’s batting, Hameed plays a bit low and he would have seen people like me suggesting that he adjusts and be more upright. But it’s not…
Inane Aussie commentators and a ‘no-expense-needed’ approach – BT Sport’s Ashes coverage falls short
Yes, Poms who have paid good money to a British broadcaster and deserve better. Poms who do not expect to have the score displayed in the Australian…
Poor batting or good ball? Our verdict on all 10 England wickets on day one of the Ashes
Every Hameed dismissal seems to break the heart; he’d done all the hard work, lasted a full session where four others couldn’t but then the first over…
Ghost of Nasser Hussein looms large over Joe Root to beg the question: why did he do that?
And Sir Leonard Hutton never really lived down his decision to bowl first at the Gabba in 1954-5. In his dotage he would relate how, after England…
Australia vs England, first Ashes Test 2021-22: live scoreboard
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Ashes 2021-22: How to watch, fixtures, match dates and start times for Australia vs England series
The 72nd Ashes series between Australia and England was scheduled to begin, like most of its predecessors held Down Under, in the late southern spring but for…
Josh Hazlewood exclusive: On mentoring Ollie Robinson and why Australian grounds won’t suit Ben Stokes
Ollie Robinson and Josh Hazlewood only played one game together for Sydney grade club St George in 2017 but it left a lasting impression on both. Robinson…
Our job is to wipe smiles off Australian faces during these Ashes
If batting, you need to use your partner so it does not feel like 11 versus one. Similarly with bowling, sometimes things can go badly for you….
Ashes 2021-22 Spotters’ Guide – What to look out for as the series gets underway at the Gabba
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The team England should pick for first Ashes Test
Joe Root and his side will be desperate to add their names to English cricketing folklore with an Ashes series win Down Under. Victory in the first…
Win in Australia and Ben Stokes can be considered England’s greatest ever
At the time he said he bats “in a bubble” before the word bubble took on different, and not very healthy, connotations for cricketers. What he meant…