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Cummins Strikes As Smith Still Seethes

Neil Manthorp reports on a day that was dominated by Australia’s fightback and acrimony felt by Steve Smith

Scotland Shattered By Controversial Exit

Scotland Shattered By Controversial Exit

Essex On The Brink Thanks To Chopra

Paul Bolton on the mixed emotions experienced by a batsman who put his old county to the sword

Levi Century Keeps Northants In Hunt

Edwin Charles sees Northants keep pressure on as careless Glamorgan waste their chances

Promotion Will Be The Cherry On Top

Chris Oldnall meets the Worcestershire batsman with his sights set on more than just runs

A Whole New Ball Game

Seconds out... ROUND TWO! Surrey welcome Hampshire in County Championship cracker

Carberry Gets To Art Of The Matter

MICHAEL CARBERRY will have a lot to think about over the course of the season, but he has found a great method of relaxation – as a budding artist.

Law 42 Has The Recipe To Lead To Spite And Punch-ups

CLUB cricket kicks off in large parts of the country this weekend – but kick-offs of another kind will be weighing on the minds of the umpires and officials.

Why Two Divisions Have Been Toxic For England

It has taken a while but the directors of cricket around the first-class counties have begun to realise just how flawed the two-divisional Championship is, especially with regard to producing England cricketers.

Derek Pringle

To Rotate Or Not Is Dilemma For Joe's England

Davies: Run Fest Was Long Overdue

Richard Latham cheers a welcome return to form for Somerset’s Steve Davies

Peter Hayter

Here’s My Opening Gambit: Moveon Up Skipper! 

paul nixon: sorry, but there'll be no vardy style tale in cricket

sorry, but there’ll be no vardy style tale in cricket.

top captains in numbers... but not necessarily in their ranking!

as alastair cook surpasses michael atherton as england’s most-capped skipper, derek pringle identifies the key similarities between the pair.

aussies in turmoil as collapse sends them crashing to a fourth successive defeat

adam collins surveys the wreckage caused by south africa in perth.

it will be a tough ask this winter and root has been preparing already for the task

paul higham catches up with joe root to talk about the winter tours and his plans for the future, including the england captaincy.

we should have given knackered cook time to recover

it was absolutely typical of alastair cook to want to be with his players for the start of the series in bangladesh and absolutely typical of him to want to play in the first test as soon as he got there.

Pant Must Sharpen Up His Glovework To Follow Dhoni

Chetan Narula offers his analytical assessment of the reasoning behind India’s decision to omit a rising star from their World Cup squad this summer

Vince In Line If Roy And Hales Are KOd

James Vince is being considered for an emergency World Cup opening role by England this summer following fears over the fitness and availability of Jason Roy and Alex Hales.

We Have Been Far Too Lenient For Far Too Long

On the face of it, there may not seem much of a connection between the car crash of the Alex Hales affair and a totally unrelated event that took place in the England dressing room at the Kensington Oval in mid-March 2014, but bear with me.

Rankin: We All Want To Play In The Lord's Test

FOR more than a decade Boyd Rankin was a mainstay of the Warwickshire bowling attack – establishing himself as one of the county game’s most consistent performers.

After 1999 Debacle, Cup Finds Redemption Song

Adam Collins discovers, with some relief, that the 2019 World Cup anthem is nothing like 1999’s monumental disaster.

Eoin's England Peaking Nicely For Run-strewn Summer Of Fun

TWO wins, two centuries for very special batsmen and a 2-0 series lead. For England, the past week has been pretty encouraging. For Pakistan, they are just unfortunate they have come up against a side who are approaching peak form just in time for the World Cup.

Don't Write Off My Bangladesh Warns Rhodes

STEVE Rhodes is hoping for some home-soil success with Bangladesh at this summer’s World Cup – but admits England deserve to be firm favourites to lift the trophy at Lord’s on July 14.

Post-Court, Stokes Just Hasn't Looked The Same On The Field

Derek Pringle assesses the on-field impact of England all-rounder Ben Stokes since his infamous court case last summer.

Critics Are Too Quick To Ridicule Watson

Tristan Lavalette suggests that a cricketer who divided so much opinion Down Under always deserved to be judged in a far more favourable light.

Counties Rescued After ECB U-Turn

Raf Nicholson reports on a change of heart by the authorities following protests over a proposed reduction in the number of teams.

Aussies Have The Arsenal In Their Bowling To Win The Urn

Derek Pringle looks at the Lord’s pitch for the inaugural Test against Ireland and fears the worst for the England batsman in the Ashes

Leach Digs Top Order Out Of Hole As Ireland Slip Away

Joe Root may have been right about the pitch but that wasn’t the only thing that was sub-standard during this one-off Test that saw England eventually shake off their World Cup hangover to beat Ireland with relative ease at Lord’s.

Big Ben's Ready To Settle Old Scores

ENGLAND have shown their intent for the Ashes by re-appointing Ben Stokes as vice-captain, with coach Trevor Bayliss telling Australia ahead of this week’s first Test at Edgbaston: “Bring it on.”