James Vince and Mark Stoneman produced valuable fifties to build on England's hard-earned advantage at Christchurch

Colin de Grandhomme and BJ Watling fought to keep New Zealand's first innings afloat on the second afternoon at Hagley Oval

Jonny Bairstow's unbeaten 97 allowed England to reach the close in credit after another troubling top-order collapse

Return to county cricket after successful Yorkshire stint, but ball-tampering fall-out means speculation is rife

Abysmal in Auckland, traumatised in Trinidad... We take a quick tour of some of the worst England batting performances of recent memory

Andrew Miller considers the audacious career of a cricketing genius

What an extraordinary journey this Ashes has been. We may never see its like again

The pair have put themselves forward for next week's Caribbean Premier League draft

Australia and New Zealand meet in the inaugural final of the Trans-Tasman T20 tri-series at Eden Park

Australia launched the inaugural T20 Tri-series with an emphatic victory over New Zealand at Sydney, hunting down a rain-reduced target of 95 in 11.3 overs

England's one-day cricketers are in a rare vein of form. But do their intermittent batting collapses reveal a team that is straining too hard to be ready for 2019?

Andrew Miller on Jack Russell, who has announced his retirement from first-class cricket

The timing of Ben Stokes' recall will raise eyebrows, but the need to be 'fair, reasonable and proportional' is the justification for the ECB's actions

There are structural flaws in the English game and those will have an effect, no matter how many reasons for celebration off the field

Legspinners remain a romanticised breed in English cricket, and Mason Crane's call-up for the Sydney Test is the latest chapter in the saga. However, in the past 50 years, their selections - and success - have been few and far between

Television footage appeared to show James Anderson digging his fingernail into the ball on a rain-affected fourth day of the fourth Test at Melbourne

In the 14 series since the War in which the Ashes have changed hands, a recurring theme of Aussie ruthlessness emerges

Steven Finn warns that England's fast bowlers won't improve until the ECB tackles the workloads and flat tracks in county cricket

England thought they might have had a chance with a review for lbw against Steven Smith... Until it was shown James Anderson had delivered a rare front-foot no-ball

ESPNcricinfo recalls five occasions in which England's batting malfunctioned after a seemingly serene start to an Ashes innings.