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Australia v England, 4th Test, Melbourne, 2nd day
Cook's drought-breaking hundred puts England on top
Dec 27, 2017: Alastair Cook scored his first Ashes hundred since January 2011 to back up excellent work from England's pace attack on a day where the visitors dominated
The Ashes 2017-18
All England want for Christmas...is a win
Dec 21, 2017: The Ashes are gone and the prospect of another whitewash looms for England. There will be a huge number of visiting supporters in Melbourne for the Boxing Day Test, so what do they need to do to bring some festive cheer?
The Ashes 2017-18
Ferocity of Ashes gives Stoneman "different take" on Australians
Dec 20, 2017: Mark Stoneman has shown impressive guts and determination in the Ashes but admitted he had not before faced attack with such sustained hostility as the Australians
Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 5th day
Bayliss plays down Overton, Broad concerns
Dec 18, 2017: The England coach praised the resolve shown by Craig Overton after he played through the pain of a broken rib during the third Test at the WACA
Australia v England, 3rd Ashes Test, Perth
Cook admits England have 'damaged' their image
Dec 12, 2017: The world has changed and the England cricket team has to realise it, according to former captain Alastair Cook
Australia v England, 3rd Ashes Test, Perth
Cook taking Test career on 'game-by-game basis'
Dec 12, 2017: Alastair Cook is refusing to look beyond the next game as he prepares for his record-breaking 150th Test
Alastair Cook's 150th Test
The matches that made a record-breaker
Dec 12, 2017: Alastair Cook has amassed 11,691 runs and 31 centuries en route to his 150th Test appearance. ESPNcricinfo looks back at the landmarks
England news
England's record-breaking run machine
Dec 12, 2017: Alastair Cook is set to become the first England player to rack up 150 Tests. ESPNcricinfo looks back at some of the key moments on his way to the landmark
The Ashes 2017-18
Signs that Cook's time is up - Pietersen
Dec 9, 2017: Kevin Pietersen has described the batting of both England and Australia as "no good", and questioned Alastair Cook's desire ahead of the third Ashes Test
Root, Cook, and England's overseas problems
Dec 8, 2017: England have floundered overseas in the last five years, and much of it has been due to Alastair Cook's poor form and Joe Root's inability to get hundreds
Book extract
Dec 1, 2017: England were coasting one minute, in tatters the next: a look back at how Adelaide 2006 reduced Flintoff and Co to gibbering wrecks
Australia v England, 1st Test, The Ashes 2017-18, Brisbane, 3rd Day
Cook's brainstorm wastes England's hard work
Nov 25, 2017: Alastair Cook has a deserved reputation for discipline and determination but he fell to a sucker punch at the Gabba
The Ashes 2017-18
Pre-series 'trash-talking' makes Cook 'chuckle'
Nov 21, 2017: The England batsman respectfully plays down the threat posed by Australia's pace attack, and scars from 2013-14 coming back to haunt the team
Cricket Australia XI v England, tour match, Townsville, 2nd day
Stoneman hits century as England find their groove
Nov 16, 2017: Alastair Cook, Joe Root and Dawid Malan also hit half-centuries on a productive day in the middle, but the quality of the bowling was a world away from what will greet England next week
CA XI v England XI, Adelaide, 1st day
Malan leads the way for England in sluggish contest
Nov 8, 2017: Mark Stoneman, Joe Root and Dawid Malan scored half-centuries but England struggled to capitalise on a slow surface in their day-night warm-up match
Specsavers Championship: Essex's title
Why Essex shocked English cricket: five key factors
Sep 14, 2017: Essex's anticipated title win has been perhaps the biggest surprise in the Championship since the advent of two divisions. Here we look at some of the key factors on their road to the pennant
England v West Indies, 1st Investec Test, Edgbaston
England learn nothing from thrashing soft West Indies
Aug 20, 2017: It tells you much about the current state of world cricket that Edgbaston had only budgeted for a three-day Test
England v West Indies, 1st Investec Test, Edgbaston, 2nd day
Aug 18, 2017: Stats analysis of Alastair Cook's 243 against West Indies at Edgbaston
England v West Indies, 1st Investec Test, Edgbaston, 1st day
Easy pickings for England show how times have changed
Aug 17, 2017: Alastair Cook and Joe Root scored two of their softer hundreds against a West Indies attack low on confidence and quality
England v West Indies, 1st Investec Test, Edgbaston, 1st day
Cook doffs cap to 'phenomenal' Root
Aug 17, 2017: Alastair Cook conceded that the performance of the day had come from his sidekick and successor as captain, Joe Root
