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Dressing room better without KP - Prior
Feb 28, 2014: England's dressing room will be a better place without Kevin Pietersen, according to his former team-mate, Matt Prior
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ECB acts to bolster Cook captaincy
Feb 9, 2014: Banishment of Kevin Pietersen is intended to strengthen Cook's captaincy but by intervening so strongly on his behalf the ECB risks undermining his reputation
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Pietersen falls victim to a very English revolution
Feb 6, 2014: A players' meeting in which Kevin Pietersen criticised Andy Flower sowed the seeds of his exclusion from England's future plans
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Prior, Broad talk man down from bridge
Jan 8, 2014: England players Matt Prior and Stuart Broad were reportedly involved in preventing a man jump from a bridge near the team's hotel in Sydney
The Ashes 2013-14
A catalogue of underperformance
Jan 6, 2014: ESPNcricinfo examines how England's players acquitted themselves during the disastrous 5-0 defeat in Australia
Jan 1, 2014: There was something about England's cricket team, even when it was winning, that did not entirely connect with the public mood
The Ashes 2013-14
'Doesn't get any harder than this' - Prior
Dec 11, 2013: Matt Prior accepted that the England side was struggling for form but said that he was counting on the side's ability to fight its way out of a corner in the third Ashes Test, which starts in Perth on Friday
Australia v England, 2nd Test, Adelaide, 5th day
Siddle and Harris give Australia 2-0 lead
Dec 9, 2013: Australia took a 2-0 lead in the Ashes series, with three to play as they inflicted a 218-run defeat on England in the Adelaide Test to follow up their overwhelming 381-run win in the opening match in Brisbane
Australia v England, 2nd Test, Adelaide, 3rd day
Wretched, weak, timid and gormless
Dec 7, 2013: England's batsmen threw their wickets away and set the team on a path to destruction in a display that must rank among their most humiliating
The Ashes 2013-14
Prior searches for an end to slump
Dec 1, 2013: Cricketers often face demoralising periods of failure which they are resilient enough to survive. Matt Prior needs to arrest a prolonged batting decline to lift England's Ashes challenge
CA Chairman's XI v England XI, Tour match, Alice Springs, 1st day
Ballance lone bright spot for England
Nov 29, 2013: Gary Ballance pressed his claims for a Test debut with a half-century but England were otherwise underwhelming against weak opposition
Nov 28, 2013: Often what we see of cricketers on the field is not their real selves. It's just a facade that hides the confusion that resides within
Australia v England, 1st Test, Brisbane, 4th day
England unravelling through run drought
Nov 24, 2013: They have slumped from grinding sides down with mountains of runs to battling to stay in matches
Australia v England, 1st Test, Brisbane, 2nd day
Familiar tale from shell-shocked England
Nov 22, 2013: England's first Test collapse has has become a recurring failure and one that should be keeping Andy Flower and company awake at night
The Ashes 2013-14
Recovering Prior a chance to play
Nov 18, 2013: Matt Prior has provided a boost for the England team by coming through a long training session unscathed a few days ahead of the first Ashes Test
The Ashes 2013-14
Prior's calf tear puts Bairstow in line
Nov 11, 2013: Jonny Bairstow may be in line for an unexpected turn as England's Ashes wicketkeeper after scans revealed Matt Prior had suffered a left calf tear during the Australia A match in Hobart and is ruled out of the final warm-up match against an Invitational X
The Ashes 2013-14
Prior to have scan on calf injury
Nov 9, 2013: England's wicketkeeper Matt Prior is under a fitness cloud 12 days before the first Ashes Test in Brisbane
WA Chairman's XI v England XI, Perth, 3rd day
Everything 'fantastic' for Prior
Nov 2, 2013: Matt Prior might have been standing in for the first time as an England captain, but he proved in Perth that he has already mastered the art of positive thinking
WA Chairman's XI v England XI, Tour match, Perth
England's tall quicks go head-to-head
Oct 30, 2013: England have set up a potential fast-bowling shootout in their opening tour match against a Western Australia Chairman's XI with Boyd Rankin, Steven Finn and Chris Tremlett all vying for what is likely to be the final bowling slot
'I never want to average 20 in a series again'
Oct 27, 2013: As England seek to defend the Ashes two months after retaining it, they will hope Matt Prior, who knows a thing or two about endurance and dealing with failure, returns to form