England's performance was streets better today

Graeme Smith has made his point

On Thursday, the BBC website ran an interview with Nasser Hussain's brother, in which he hinted that the end of a great career was nigh

Honeymoons are meant to last rather longer than 48 hours

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Michael Vaughan stroked his way to a sublime 156, his ninth Test century and his eighth in 15 matches, to lead England's fightback on a fascinating fourth day's play at Edgbaston

This year, the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack took a deep breath and used a picture on its front cover for the first time in history

England's cricketers have always been prone to choking on their own hubris, but today's debacle at Edgbaston was astonishing even by their extreme standards

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No more than a couple of years ago, there was an advert doing the rounds on British television, which posed one of the philosophical questions of the age

It's the midway point of the English season, and things are going swimmingly

One of the greatest mysteries of the recent World Cup, along with the devastating losses of form of Mahela Jayawardene and Inzamam-ul-Haq, was the utter anonymity of Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis's second century in 24 hours was an innings of two distinct parts

Jacques Kallis scored a magnificent unbeaten 125, his 10th and highest one-day century, and his second in consecutive days, as South Africa bounced back from defeat in their opening match of the NatWest Series to record a comfortable 46-run victory

England have a horrible habit of underestimating Zimbabwe

Marcus Trescothick completed a memorable weekend with a magnificent unbeaten 108, and Chris Read chipped in with a resourceful and impish 25, as England recovered from a seemingly hopeless position to win the deciding match of the NatWest Challenge

James Anderson: a wicket with his first ball, and then wrapped things up with a hat-trick Experience is the key, so the sages say, if England's young side are to compete with the best by the 2007 World Cup

A pair of Australians have already come blisteringly close to the first century in the Twenty20 Cup, and last night it was Nick Knight's turn to come, see and all but conquer, as Warwickshire made it two wins out of two in the Midlands/West/Wales

England v Pakistan, NatWest Challenge, 1st ODI, Old Trafford

In front of a packed Old Trafford and in a cacophony of blaring horns that was more Lahore than Lancashire, the exuberance of England's youth gave way to naivety, as Pakistan took control of the first match of the NatWest Challenge