Alan Gardner

Deputy editor, ESPNcricinfo

England bank on familiar core for Champions Trophy acid test

They have a stiff challenge with matches against Australia and South Africa on either side of a politically-charged game against Afghanistan

14-Feb-2025•Alan Gardner

Adil Rashid marshals defence as England stay alive in series

Varun Chakravarthy takes five in losing cause after Ben Duckett fifty helps set up winning total

28-Jan-2025•Alan Gardner

Cricket, have you been nice or naughty this year?

Everyone's a winner, baby, that's no lie (or is it?). Here are the annual awards that matter

29-Dec-2024•Alan Gardner and Andrew Fidel Fernando

Santner four-for sends England tumbling to 423-run defeat

Tim Southee takes two on final Test outing as New Zealand wrap up consolation win

16-Dec-2024 • Updated on 17-Dec-2024•Alan Gardner

New Zealand take control after O'Rourke, Santner trip up England

Hosts build on 204-run first-innings lead through fifties from Young and Williamson

14-Dec-2024•Alan Gardner

Southee's long farewell the subplot as New Zealand seek series consolation

England gunning for 3-0 whitewash to end up-and-down year on a high

13-Dec-2024•Alan Gardner

England crush New Zealand to claim series despite Blundell defiance

Fighting hundred only delays inevitable as visitors end long wait for victory in New Zealand

07-Dec-2024•Alan Gardner

Atkinson hat-trick, Bethell 96 highlight England's day of dominance

New Zealand facing record fourth-innings chase as tourists pile on the pain

06-Dec-2024•Alan Gardner

Brook hundred repels New Zealand before Carse leads England surge

England saved by another Brook-Pope special as New Zealand lose early grip on contest

05-Dec-2024•Alan Gardner

Wyatt-Hodge, Sciver-Brunt hammer England to series-sealing victory

Sarah Glenn takes four-wicket haul as South Africa slump in pursuit of 205-run target

27-Nov-2024•Alan Gardner

Men's county schedule stays the same for 2025 but revamp in the works

Four rounds of Championship to be played using Kookaburra ball in mid-summer

26-Nov-2024•Alan Gardner

England in New Zealand: Bazball goes home (again)

Everything you need to know as England Men begin their third winter tour in the space of seven weeks

22-Nov-2024•Alan Gardner

The Champions Trophy is thrilling, unpredictable, edge-of the seat stuff (and that's just the negotiations)

Our correspondent imagines the goings-on in Dubai relating to India's refusal to go to Pakistan for the tournament

14-Nov-2024•Alan Gardner

Buttler powers England to 2-0 series lead after bowlers limit West Indies again

Saqib Mahmood, Dan Mousley impress with ball before Jos Buttler's 83 off 45 sets up comfortable chase

10-Nov-2024•Alan Gardner

Comebacks king as Buttler's England take on star-studded West Indies

Tourists seek to bounce back from ODI series loss in final white-ball campaign of 2024

08-Nov-2024•Alan Gardner

Keacy Carty, Brandon King hundreds seal series for West Indies

Hosts cruise in chase after England had scrapped a score from the depths of 24 for 4

06-Nov-2024•Alan Gardner

Noman Ali eight-for seals Pakistan's first home win since 2021

England lose eight wickets inside morning session as hosts sweep to victory

18-Oct-2024•Alan Gardner

Sajid Khan the star turn as Pakistan eye end to winless run

England lose both openers after being set 297 to win the second Multan Test

17-Oct-2024•Alan Gardner

The wolves of ball street: a Hundred saga

Watch the ECB's plans for the tournament slowly unfold on Shark Tank - with real sharks

17-Oct-2024•Alan Gardner

Leach four-for consigns Pakistan to historic innings defeat

Salman Agha and Aamer Jamal both scored fifties but could not prevent England's march to victory

11-Oct-2024•Alan Gardner

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