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England's coach, Andy Flower, says that he expects "great things" from Kevin Pietersen on the forthcoming Ashes tour, despite a prolonged slump in form that Pietersen was unable to arrest during his brief stint with the Natal Dolphins

England's batting coach, Graham Gooch, believes that the leadership partnership of Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower has instilled in the squad a competitive edge that has been lacking on previous tours of Australia

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As next-door neighbours and useful sparring partners, Zimbabwe are regular opponents in the early stages of South Africa's international season, with 20 of their previous 36 encounters taking place between late August and early November

England's cricketers will depart for Australia later this month with no contractual issues hanging over the squad, after the ECB agreed a three-year framework with the Professional Cricketers' Association that will cover all negotiations up until Septembe

Graham Gooch has described the prospect of Essex playing some of their future home matches at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford as a 'win-win scenario', after their involvement in a joint bid with West Ham Football Club and Newham Council was confirmed

Shane Warne believes that Australia are already looking beyond the two-Test series against India which gets underway in Mohali on Friday, and have their sights fixed firmly on reclaiming the Ashes on home soil later this year

There were few surprises in England Ashes squad, but admirable thought seems to have gone into the marginal picks

The rise and rise of Steven Finn shows no immediate sign of abating, much like the teenage growth spurts that went into creating the 6'7" colossus who was today named for the first time in an England touring party

England's captain, Andrew Strauss, has appealed to the ICC to make the hard decisions necessary to clean up the game of cricket

Eoin Morgan produced his second superb century in consecutive ODI appearances at the Rose Bowl, before Graeme Swann bamboozled Pakistan's middle-order

Pakistan's coach, Waqar Younis, admitted that their series-salvaging victory in the third ODI against England was the result that his team needed

Umar Gul produced a sensational career-best spell of 6 for 42 in ten full-length and late-swinging overs, as Pakistan came back to win at The Oval

It'd be nice to say goodbye to Flintoff, but the goodbyes were all said a long time ago

Graham Ford, the coach of the Natal Dolphins, believes that Kevin Pietersen's forthcoming stint in South Africa will be hugely beneficial for both the club and the player

Five years after a career-defining Ashes century, Kevin Pietersen is a shadow of the cocksure batsman he was

England's coach, Andy Flower, has appealed to the British public to get involved in the forthcoming one-day series despite the ongoing allegations involving Pakistan's cricketers

England wrapped up an easy 2-0 victory in the Twenty20 series that left Pakistan desperate for a positive result in the one-dayers to lift them out of the mire

England's Twenty20 cricketers were barely forced to break sweat as they sauntered to a crushing six-wicket victory in Cardiff, against a Pakistan side whose off-field woes appeared to have seeped out into the middle with them

Stuart Broad believes that the same professionalism that helped England to victory in the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean back in May has enabled them to keep their focus amid a torrid week