Australia summoned long-dormant reserves of application and patience to force England's bowlers to slave at a hot, humid Old Trafford

ESPNcricinfo previews the third Investec Ashes Test at Old Trafford

Mickey Arthur and Cricket Australia have reached a confidential financial settlement over the circumstances of the former coach's sacking in June

The prefabricated surfaces prepared for 2015 are a case of character being traded for cash flow

Twenty-three years after Imran Khan led Pakistan to victory over England, Melbourne will again host the World Cup final in 2015

Queensland cricket is in mourning over the loss of the state's long-time chief executive Graham Dixon, who succumbed to brain cancer on Saturday night at the age of 61 after a battle lasting more than a year.

Australia may depart from nearly a century of tradition - and global cricket custom - to play Sheffield Shield matches over five days

Trying to catch one of his final innings in the game became a matter of urgency, of getting to say a proper goodbye

Matthew Wade is earnestly hoping to follow David Warner's lead under the noses of the national selectors in the tour match against Sussex

Shane Watson will remain in London to work on a technical hitch rather than join the rest of the Australia squad to play against Sussex in a three-day match starting on Friday.

In a frank discussion of what appears a dire medium-term forecast for the national team, Pat Howard defended his decision to sack the former coach, Mickey Arthur

Ricky Ponting has dealt out heavy criticism of Cricket Australia for rolling out reams of Big Bash League hype in the hours after the Test team's 347-run humiliation at Lord's.

James Pattinson has been ruled out of the remainder of the Ashes series in England after being diagnosed with a stress fracture of the lower back

Usman Khawaja has pointed to a decline in the standard of Australian domestic pitches as one of the reasons behind the dire batting

Graham Gooch has spelled out something that no one at Cricket Australia is prepared to publicly say - Twenty20 is "chipping away" at the skills required of Test batsmen

Allan Border, the former Australia captain, has spoken of his bewilderment at how the vastly talented allrounder Shane Watson is skating desperately close to a failed career,

The marginalising of grade and Shield competitions has left a painful legacy for the Test team

If there was optimism in Michael Clarke's voice after Trent Bridge, it had turned to utter desolation at Lord's as Australia lost their sixth consecutive Test

Australia's penalty for madness with the bat on the second day is pain on the third