England

Harry Brook missed a century again but not the point: passed over for the Test captaincy, he still showed why England cannot do without him. This article explains how four batters making fifties without going…

England's cricketers have been handed a new set of behaviour guidelines, and the headline is a familiar one for any touring side: watch the drinking. It arrives after a summer of off-field noise, most of it…

Some series are decided by a single great performance and some by the quiet accumulation of a better team simply being better, and England's white-ball side is running out of ways to make this one interesting.…

There are heavy defeats and then there are the ones a team files away and tries never to look at again. India will put this one in the second drawer. Bowled out for 76 at Trent Bridge, beaten by 125 runs, on…

Sam Curran has put his hand up for the vacancy nobody knows how to fill. This looks at the Surrey all-rounder's pitch to replaceBen Stokesin England's Test side: the five years since his last cap, the groin…

Old Trafford turned up expecting a coronation and got a contest instead. A 15-year-old walked out to bat for India and rewrote a record that had stood in Sachin Tendulkar's name since 1989, which is the sort…

England are in a Women's T20 World Cup final for the first time in eight years, and the story of how they got there runs through one player's calf. This covers the 40-run semi-final win over South Africa at…

Four years ago Bazball was born at Trent Bridge in a blaze of fearless chasing. This week, at the same ground and against the same opponent, it looked very much like it died there. This piece examines…

Ben Stokes has spent the better part of a decade dragging England across finish lines they had no business reaching. Now, at 35, he has decided he has given enough. This piece looks at his retirement from…