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If Australia are to achieve their coveted five-nil Ashes whitewash by winning the fifth Test in Sydney, they need to score 363 runs on the final day with seven wickets in hand

Michael Vaughan scored his third hundred of the Ashes series to put the tourists into a commanding position on the third day of the final Test

When they sit down to do business next, the quartet will not be able to keep out a flood of memories

The head of Zimbabwe cricket, Peter Chingoka is urging England and Australia to honour their

Michael Vaughan is hoping to build on his overnight 113 tomorrow morning, after becoming the most successful England batsman on an Ashes tour for over 30 years.

Steve Waugh admitted it would be almost impossible to improve on his day at Sydney, after completing his 29th Test century off the last ball of the day

Surely, Test cricket never came any better than this

It might not have escaped Nasser Hussain's attention that the only time he has led England to a Test success against Australia was at Headingley in 2001 when Mark Butcher recorded a magnificent hundred and the captain himself shared a third wicket

During the press conference at the close of play of the first day of the Sydney Test, it emerged that England wicket-keeper Alec Stewart went into this match with suspected chicken-pox

Officials of the England and Wales Cricket Board are expected to seek compensation from the government if they bow to pressure not to play their World Cup match in Zimbabwe.

By the end of the 2002 domestic season, Lancashire's Jimmy Anderson had played in three one-day matches

Former Somerset cricketer and first class umpire Ken Palmer has been awarded the MBE in the New Years Honours list for his services to cricket

Alec Stewart looks likely to return to England colours in the New Year, making his 126th Test appearance in Sydney.

Chairman of Selectors David Graveney today announced the England Squad forthe 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup

Remarkable as it might appear, Australia took the result but England took heart from the last session of the fourth Test

Nearly a month after England's Ashes hopes were so summarily consumed within the vortex of the Fremantle Doctor, the hyperbolic reaction to defeat on both sides of the world has died down a little

England skipper Nasser Hussain praised the courage of his two opening bowlers for testing Australia's nerves before the hosts managed a five-wicket win on the final day of the fourth Test in Melbourne.

"Glorious" and "defeat" are not two words which sit comfortably together

It could be said that England are getting better

England's cricket authorities are being forced to walk a tightrope to avoid being sucked into a political storm over the World Cup match scheduled to be played in Harare against Zimbabwe on February 13th