Cricket nerds love precedent so maybe England can channel spirit of Lord’s 2005
Twenty years on, a montage of the 2005 Ashes still tingles the spine. Close your eyes and you can probably make your own, with an...
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England can exploit the Australian cricket culture war
Michael Vaughan has spent the past few southern hemisphere summers commentating in Australia, and reads the local mood better than most. Last month, Vaughan made...
Who is your favourite cricketer in the history of the men’s Ashes?
It had to be one or the other: the man who has scored the most runs in Ashes history or the man who has taken...
2005 Ashes series: A Test-by-Test look back at a memorable contest
Thursday, September 12 marks 20 years since England won the 2005 Ashes and lifted the urn for the first time in 18 years. Here, the...
The genius behind Joe Root’s seismic batting achievement
On Tuesday, Ben Stokes felt the briefest of tributes to Joe Root was the most eloquent. “Sometimes less is more,” he argued. “I don’t need...
Ricky Ponting: ‘Absolutely no reason’ why Joe Root can’t be top Test run-scorer
Ricky Ponting insisted there is “absolutely no reason” why Joe Root cannot become Test cricket’s all-time top run-scorer after he was leapfrogged to second on...
Ponting says ‘no reason’ why Root cannot top Tendulkar’s run record
Ricky Ponting is convinced there is “absolutely no reason” why Joe Root cannot surpass India’s Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricket’s all-time leading run-scorer after the...
Cherie Blair flirting with KP and Roy Keane slating the ‘Poms’ – untold stories of 2005 Ashes
It is perhaps England wicketkeeper Jamie Smith who best embodies the effect of the 2005 Ashes. Smith was not brought up in a cricket-mad family...
Kohli does it at last, teenage star wows: five IPL storylines
Virat Kohli and his Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the IPL for the first time with a thrilling six-run triumph over Punjab Kings in the final...