England are leading the five match Ashes series 3-1 after wins at Cardiff, Edgbaston and Trent Bridge and The Ashes are WON... but a 4-1 series result is something worth fighting for.
England Squad: AN Cook*, MM Ali, JM Anderson, JM Bairstow, IR Bell, SCJ Broad, JC Buttler†, ST Finn, A Lyth, LE...
England leading the 5 match Ashes series 2-1 after wins at Cardiff and Edgbaston.
England Squad: AN Cook*, MM Ali, JM Bairstow, IR Bell, SCJ Broad, JC Buttler†, ST Finn, MHA Footitt, A Lyth, LE Plunkett, AU Rashid, JE Root, BA Stokes, MA Wood
Australia Squad: MJ Clarke*, SPD Smith, PJ...
England won at Cardiff, Australia won at Lords, series 1-1.
Changes for England, in-form Jonny Bairstow returns in place of the hapless Ballance, for his 15th Test Match, 593 runs at 26.95.
And it looks like Mark Wood has succumbed to injury and is replaced by Steven Finn, for his 24th Test...
England Squad: AN Cook*, MM Ali, JM Anderson, GS Ballance, IR Bell, SCJ Broad, JC Buttler†, ST Finn, A Lyth, AU Rashid, JE Root, BA Stokes, MA Wood
Australia Squad: MJ Clarke*, SPD Smith, Fawad Ahmed, BJ Haddin†, JR Hazlewood, MG Johnson, NM Lyon, MR Marsh, SE Marsh, PM Nevill†, CJL Rogers, PM...
After the remarkable game at Edgbaston... what await at the Oval this afternoon?
Morgan continues to be a useless tosser, and NZ have elected to bat first, unsurprisingly!
England: 1 Alex Hales, 2 Jason Roy, 3 Joe Root, 4 Eoin Morgan (capt), 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Jos Buttler (wk), 7 Sam Billings, 8 Adil Rashid, 9 Chris Jordan, 10 Liam Plunkett, 11 Steven Finn
New Zealand: 1 Brendon McCullum (capt), 2 Martin Guptill, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Grant Elliott, 6...
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After the drawn test in Antigua, will England look to strengthen their bowling attack, possibly Rashid - or will they rely on the returning Moeen Ali as the replacement spin option for Tredwell?
England v New Zealand, Wellington - World Cup Pool A.
Captain Morgan won the toss and batted.
Bell end was swift and Ali both undone by a swinger from Southee.
43-2 after 10 overs. Par looks like 300+
apparently... according to the Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2958475/Emmanuel-Ledesma-set-loan-Championship-strugglers-Brighton-high-flying-Middlesbrough.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/article/brighton-hove-albion-appoint-colin-calderwood-2245896.aspx
Brighton & Hove Albion boss Chris Hughton has appointed former Scottish international Colin Calderwood as his assistant manager - and confirmed his first-team backroom team.
Calderwood was...
After 19 overs, Australia are 4-68
Smith In fine form just stumped at the second attempt by Buttler.
Pressure on Marsh, Maxwell and Haddin to put a decent total on the board.
“I’ve got girl twins that are nine-and-a-half months and a three-year-old boy who’s starting to understand the game a bit more. He’s seen his Dad on the sidelines for too long now and he needs to see me score some goals.
“I’m going to the ground now to collect all their kits, before flying...