England cricket team
CSA gears up for congested international and domestic season
CSA launched the domestic season on Thursday, with professional domestic cricket set to get underway early next month.
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Moeen thanks Morgan as he ends England run drought
Pakistan, who saw veteran Mohammad Hafeez (86 not out) and teenage debutant Haider Ali (54) share a partnership of exactly 100, won a last-ball thriller by five runs to square a three-match series at 1-1, with one no result, in the final fixture of their tour of England.
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England have right mix to be world’s best test side, says Root
England beat the West Indies 2-1 and Pakistan 1-0 in a rain-hit series which, coupled with their success in South Africa at the start of the year, continue an upward trajectory with new players in the team.
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England's Anderson gets milestone 600th wicket but third Test drawn
The tourists reached 187 for four in their second innings at the close, batting for 27.1 overs on the short final day, still 123 runs short of England’s massive 583 for eight declared.
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Cricket authorities introduce flexible start times after second Test blowout
Officials will meet along with Ageas Bowl groundstaff at the end of the first day's play (Friday) and if the weather forecast is good for the following morning they can start play half an hour earlier than normal.
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English bowler Broad says dad off Christmas card list after sanction
In a match refereed by his father Chris Broad, bowler Stuart Broad was fined 15% of his match fee and given a demerit point for his behaviour on Saturday as England went on to clinch the series opener in Manchester by three wickets.
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Broad says he could be last paceman in '500 club'
The 34-year-old Broad is only the seventh bowler in history to have taken 500 Test wickets and the fourth quick.
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Anderson hoping to partner Broad in search of series win
The hosts are spoilt for choice ahead of Friday’s start of the third test at Old Trafford with Anderson, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood all looking to return to the team.
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England's Archer fined, warned over protocol breach
England dropped Archer from the team for the second test against West Indies, announcing the decision hours before the start of the match at Old Trafford on Thursday.
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England 35-1 as weather spoils long-awaited test return
The match is being played in a “bio-secure environment” with daily health checks for everyone in the ground. There are home umpires - the first time in England since 2002 - and because of that each team have three referrals instead of the usual two per innings.
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All-rounders Stokes and Holder to lead from the front
Jason Holder tops the ICC's Test all-rounder rankings, with fellow paceman Ben Stokes in second place as international cricket resumes for the first time since 2 March following the coronavirus lockdown.
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England's Curran self isolating after undergoing COVID-19 test
The ECB said in a statement that Curran, 22, experienced sickness and diarrhoea on Wednesday night and would sit out the remainder of England’s intra-squad practice match ahead of the first test against West Indies.
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Fit-again Archer hopes to play all three tests against Windies
Barbados-born Archer’s injury had ruled him out of England’s tour of Sri Lanka and the Indian Premier League before both were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Roach warns Archer to expect rough ride for Windies snub
Barbados-born Jofra Archer is eligible to play for England because his father was born there and the paceman made his debut for the team last year.
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Australia's Warner says England tour 'highly unlikely'
The Australians were scheduled to play three one-dayers and three Twenty20 matches against England in July, although changes to the English country cricket season now make that impossible.
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Stokes crowned Wisden's leading cricketer in the world
He is the first England player to receive the honour since Andrew Flintoff in 2005.
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Lungi Ngidi: I'm trying to keep my confidence going
Lungi Ngidi produced a match-winning performance at the death to help the Proteas defeat England by just one run in the first T20 international at Buffalo Park, East London.
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Ngidi snatches victory for Proteas in first T20
Proteas bowler Lungi Ngidi produced a match-winning performance at the death to help the Proteas beat England by just one run in the first T20 international.
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Proteas draw first blood in ODI series as they trounce England by 7 wickets
After a drubbing in the Test series, the Proteas, led by new captain Quinton de Kock, drew first blood in emphatic style in the first of three one-day internationals in Cape Town on Tuesday.
