Thrice more unto the breach, dear friends, thrice more. That's England's reward for their belated awakening in the CB Series. Miraculously, the tour that, last week, couldn't end quickly enough has just been extended by another week

England's approach to one-day cricket has been a shambles for years, but in recent months - just as the rest of the world gears up for the World Cup, in fact - the planning and preparation has gone into meltdown

Andrew Miller looks back at The Week That Was... January 29 to February 5, 2007

England's approach to one-day cricket has been a shambles for years, but in recent months - just as the rest of the world gears up for the World Cup, in fact - the planning and preparation has gone into meltdown

It was the most famous turnaround in the history of Test cricket, but for the man who instigated it, the depths from which he had to return were deeper even than those of his team

Andrew Miller meets Ian Chappell, quizzing Australia's former captain on where England got it wrong - chiefly no plan B - and why 10-year dominance is bad for cricket

Andrew Miller charts England's slump as a one-day team since the 1992 World Cup

Here we look at 11 occasions when injury ravaged cricket teams

Anyone who claims that cricket journalism is an easy lark has obviously never had to sit and watch England make perpetual fools of themselves in the one-day arena. It really is the most soul-destroying of occupations

In 1994-95, England's one-day fortunes hit the first of many rock-bottoms

Never in his wildest dreams would Paul Collingwood proclaim himself as one of the great allrounders in world cricket. At one-day level, however, it is a different story and at Trent Bridge in 2005, he carved an improbable niche in cricket's history, with

Here we look at 11 occasions when the lower-order adopted the long-handle approach

In Angus Fraser Andrew Miller found a role model for the anti-athlete

Michael Vaughan has many talents as a leader, but foremost among these is his ability to look any man in the eye - be it a team-mate, opponent, or irritating media man with a tendency to ask the same questions over and over again

Michael Vaughan will return as England captain in place of Andrew Flintoff for the one-day series in Australia as he looks to restore national pride following the 5-0 Ashes whitewash

Duncan Fletcher has given the strongest hint yet that Andrew Flintoff's reign as England captain is about to come to an end

Kevin Pietersen was the best of a disappointing bunch as too many of the senior players failed to come to the party

Andrew Flintoff vowed that his first act as England's newly whitewashed captain would be to "switch off" for a day and let the tensions and frustrations of the past two months die away

England's 5-0 drubbing may have been their first at the hands of the Australians for 86 years, but the last occasion came much more recently than that. In 1984 and 1985-86, England slumped to ten defeats out of ten against the mighty West Indians

The last time Ricky Ponting faced the media at the end of an Ashes series, the first question he received came from a hard-talking TV news reporter who demanded his on-the-spot resignation for the "humiliation" of losing the closest and greatest Ashes con