Tim de Lisle

The seven ages of all-night cricket

Tim de Lisle looks at the best and worst moments of the 2006-07 Ashes series

History repeats itself, Marx said – the first time as tragedy, the second as farce

At the start of this series, there was much talk about Brisbane being Australia's fortress

The pattern of a long series is seldom uniform – men who make double hundreds at the start often find ducks waiting for them at the end

Got your New Year resolutions sorted

There's an adjective we'll be seeing a lot of in the next day or two: spineless

There’s a headline on the BBC site today saying “Same old story”

You wait ages for a bogeyman’s retirement, then two come along at once

We were expecting two retirements today, and we got them – but only one was expected

Tomorrow England announce a squad for the one-day series

Australia have won the Ashes, at speed, in style, and quite deservedly

At Brisbane, they were remorseless

It’s pretty flat in western Australia, but England can turn most surfaces into a rollercoaster

Today two proud men finally admitted that they had made a mistake

Clarke and Bell are blondish right-handers who know what it is to be the great white hope of their country’s batting

Both teams set out to play this Ashes series with a balanced side - five bowlers and five specialist batsmen

Well that was a rude awakening for England fans on a blustery morning – but what a scintillating performance by Australia

Today the Adelaide Test went from tortuous to worse

Hubris, in tragedy, is followed inexorably by Nemesis – the goddess of retribution, whose job it is to take mortals down a peg