All hail juicy pitches

Dec 22, 2010: Australian wickets have been denatured and characterless for far too long. Let's hope Melbourne produces a track like the one in Perth

The Ashes 2010-11

Boycott hails 'textbook' Hussey

Dec 20, 2010: Geoffrey Boycott has hailed Mike Hussey's series-levelling efforts in the third Test as "textbook" and "magnificent"

The Ashes 2010-11

Ryan Harris flies high after injury fears

Dec 20, 2010: A week before the Ashes series Ryan Harris didn't expect his body would let him play

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 4th day

Unchanged Australia take confidence from Perth

Dec 19, 2010: Ricky Ponting has told his team to maintain its newly-found high standards after Australia's breakthrough victory ended a five-Test winless streak and squared the Ashes series

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 4th day

England consider changes for Melbourne

Dec 19, 2010: It was England's batting that let them down at Perth, but it is the state of their bowling that will give Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower the greater food for thought in the build-up to the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 4th day

A proper Perth whacking

Dec 19, 2010: England's WACA record suggested they would struggle and that proved to be the case with a thumping defeat

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 4th day

Ponting hails Johnson's 'all-time great' spell

Dec 19, 2010: Mitchell Johnson has spied the doubts in the eyes of the England batsmen after regaining his powers as one of the game's most potent fast bowlers

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 4th day

Ponting confident of playing on Boxing Day

Dec 19, 2010: Ricky Ponting rates himself "a good chance" to play with his broken little finger on Boxing Day, but won't be too proud to stand down if he's not fit

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 4th day

Harris takes six to level Ashes series

Dec 19, 2010: Australia wasted no time in levelling the Ashes series with a crushing 267-run victory at the WACA as Ryan Harris tore out the remaining resistance with a Test-best 6 for 47 to humble England

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 3rd day

Ponting fracture confirmed by X-rays

Dec 19, 2010: Australia's charge towards a series-levelling victory was upset by Ricky Ponting suffering a suspected broken finger that could rule him out of the rest of the campaign

Ponting's captaincy is hurting Australia

Dec 19, 2010: He's trying too hard to prove he's worthy. When he quits, Haddin might be Australia's best option as a stop-gap leader

Australia v England, third Test, Perth, third day

Barmy Army posers, and a Monty sighting

Dec 18, 2010: The Aussies who tried to compete with the famous English fans were, frankly, embarrassing. But the cricket was thrilling, wot?

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 3rd day

Series in the balance after Australia's surge

Dec 18, 2010: In the build-up to this Test match, England referred back so often to Headingley and Johannesburg, the scenes of their capitulations in their last two marquee series against Australia and South Africa, that complacency could not have been further from the

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 3rd day

England's attack missing Broad's mongrel

Dec 18, 2010: When the short ball failed them for three sessions, England sorely missed Stuart Broad

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 3rd day

Collingwood wicket massive moment - Siddle

Dec 18, 2010: Peter Siddle and his team-mates are basking in Australia's dramatic turnaround but realise the job of regaining the Ashes is far from complete

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 3rd day

Towering Hussey shows how it's done

Dec 18, 2010: The WACA pitch has felt like another planet for most of the batsmen on show in this game, but this stretch of soil is Michael Hussey's home

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 3rd day

Australia's nearly man and a three-week wait

Dec 18, 2010: Plays of the Day from the third day of the third Ashes Test between Australia and England at Perth

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 3rd day

England in tatters after Hussey sets up Australia

Dec 18, 2010: Australia are closing in on a series-levelling victory at the WACA after ripping out five England wickets during the final session to back up Michael Hussey's 116 which continued his phenomenal series

Australia v England, third Test, Perth, second day

Can we call the Doctor, please?

Dec 17, 2010: The heat was sapping, the wind was nearly non-existent, but the home fans finally had reason to cheer

Australia v England, 3rd Test, Perth, 2nd day

Australians step up sledging war

Dec 17, 2010: Australia have made a concerted effort to turn up the volume on England and the extra sledging is increasing the tension between the sides