Recipe for success?

Switch Hit: Is Cook overseeing the rebirth of English ODI cricket? Plus, Broad v Bresnan, discipline problems in county cricket, and a first look at India

Not all gloom despite defeat

Mahela Jayawardene: We played some good cricket, weren't outplayed for long periods of time, and unearthed some really talented youngsters

2001

BC Cooray's nightmare

Rewind: In early 2001 an umpire united both sides as well as spectators in agreement that his officiating was atrocious

Ready, steady, Cook

Switch Hit: Can captain Cook steady the ship for England in the ODIs? Plus, we look into changes for the DRS

After the rain, a new reign

Switch Hit: What positives can England take ahead of India? Plus, we look ahead to the ODI series and two new captains

Sri Lanka in England 2011

We didn't take the easy way out

Mahela Jayawardene: Sri Lanka chose not to play seven batsmen in the England Tests for the sake of building a team

Sri Lanka's best struggle in England

The List: How players have fared in England compared to the rest of their careers

Sri Lanka in England 2011

We will miss Dilshan

Mahela Jayawardene: It's a big loss, but we were never going to take any chances with our captain

Rod Bransgrove

Hampshire's knight in shining armour

Test cricket comes to the Rose Bowl today courtesy Rod Bransgrove, a pharmaceuticals millionaire who funded the development of the stadium

Breaking new ground

The Switch Hit: The Rose Bowl becomes England's tenth Test ground. Are provincial venues bad for the game? Plus, an interview with Rod Bransgrove

'Test cricket will die if it doesn't change'

Bowl at Boycs: Geoff Boycott on the need for day-night and four-day Tests and Pietersen's woes against left-arm spin

Pane barrier

Switch Hit: Prior's window-smashing grabs the headlines, but has Dilshan's thumb seen the biggest break in the series?

Sri Lanka in England 2011

We passed the test of character

Mahela Jayawardene looks back at Sri Lanka's resilience in the Lord's Test after the collapse in Cardiff

The incredible glove of Prior

The Two Chucks: Breaking glass and Steve Finn's areas are the key moments from day five at Lord's

Sri Lanka's collapse, and the shortest innings

Ask Steven: Also, duckless batsmen, the leading wicket-taker for the shortest time, and top-scoring No. 11s

Who is the fairest of them all?

The Two Chucks: Dilshan targets Swann at rainy Lord's, and an exclusive (of sorts) with Arjuna Ranatunga

Pietersen's battles against left-arm spin

Numbers Game: He's been troubled by it for a while, but slowly the malaise has spread to other types of bowling

The draw that never was

Switch Hit: England's bowlers defy the odds to win the first Test against Sri Lanka. Can the tourists recover for Lord's?

Forget day five

Mahela Jayawardene looks back at the Cardiff Test and what positives, if any, can be taken from it

'The wrong Jayawardene'

Prasanna Jayawardene's slick new look, England's leaky fielding, the flankerchief and can you say Paranavitana?

Loyalty counts for nothing?

Switch Hit: Should Bopara have been picked? Plus, a full preview of the Sri Lanka series and a county round-up