Despite their careful and near flawless preparations for the Ashes test series, England were served up an early reminder of how tough it is to take on and beat the Australian’s on their home turf as Aussie bowler Peter Siddle scythed through the England attack taking 6 for just 54 runs.
It took just over 76 [...]

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England skittled for 260 on first day of Ashes test
John Williams - Thursday 25.11.10, 14:01pm
Tags: Australia · England · Test Match · The Ashes
Allan Border questions England’s ‘Empire XI’ as the Ashes mind games continue
John Williams - Wednesday 17.11.10, 11:51am
As the Ashes approaches the war of words and mind games gets into full swing in Australia. The Australian’s are quite rightly offended by the negative media they are receiving in their homeland, but it should be remembered that the nation has a knack of not pulling punches and telling it how it is.
England would [...]
Tags: Australia · England · Test Match · The Ashes
Shane Warne Backs Ricky Ponting Captaincy
Thomas Rooney - Thursday 21.10.10, 17:06pm
Ricky Ponting has come under fire of late for his captaincy of Australia. Ahead of the Ashes, they have fallen to fifth in the test rankings after defeat to India this month.
One of the men to publically criticise Ricky Ponting was former team mate Shane Warne. The former Australian spinner used Twitter to question the [...]
Tags: Australia · Ricky Ponting · Shane Warne · The Ashes
England Ashes Squad 2010
Terry Lane - Thursday 23.09.10, 16:27pm
England name the 16 man Ashes squad to tour Australia this winter.
The 11 cricketers that played in the final Test Match against Pakistan at Lords are named, along with Sussex spin bowler Monty Panesar, Surrey fast bowler Chris Tremlett and wicket-keeper Steven Davies.
After returning from injury, the other two places are given to Warwickshire batsman [...]
Tags: Alastair Cook · Andrew Strauss · Australia · England · Kevin Pietersen · Monty Panesar · Paul Collingwood · Stuart Broad · Test Match · The Ashes
Kevin Pietersen out for second ball duck in County Championship debut
John Williams - Tuesday 07.09.10, 15:24pm
The future of Kevin Pietersen as an England player took a turn for the worse today when he was bowled for nought by left arm spinner Cosker in his debut county game for Surrey, against Glamorgan.
Facing only his second ball of the innings Pietersen was given lbw after a lengthy look from the umpire after [...]
Tags: County Cricket · England · Kevin Pietersen · The Ashes






