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To compete with Australia, England's best side needed to play to their full potential but with injuries blighting selections, the best of the rest were unable to lift their games and Australia were clinical in completing an innings and 118 run

The compact and aggressive Australian left-hander, Karen Rolton, broke the record for the highest individual innings in a Test match, with 209 not out at Headingley today

The first two sessions were a re-enactment of yesterday

Australian hero Adam Gilchrist admitted to feeling nerves prior to the First Test at Edgbaston, and to disappointment at his own wicket-keeping display after England's first innings

Well, after all the build-up, the speculation and the media hype, the Ashes series is finally under way

She's been described as the female Brett Lee

Steve Waugh's first-ever hundred at Edgbaston was one of the best Test centuries of his career - that's according to the man himself

Graham Thorpe may be back for the Second Test at Lord's after his injury was finally diagnosed

A tough batting effort by an outclassed England team saw them through to 144 all out in 80 overs in the second and final match of the CricInfo series against Australia

Steve Waugh slammed on the brakes on the second day of the First npower Ashes Test but Australia lost none of the momentum that has kept them on top from the start of this match

Shane Warne, who took five England wickets yesterday, has underlined just how important the first session of today's play is to both sides

The Ashes series got off to a thunderous start at Edgbaston with Australia finishing the first day on 132-2 in reply to England's 294 all out

In Pakistan's 49 years of Test Cricket history Pakistan has won 79 test matches out of 278 played to date

BIRMINGHAM, England - Australian captain Steve Waugh made history today when he was presented with the International Cricket Council Test world championship trophy at Edgbaston

BIRMINGHAM, England - The haunting memory of Australia's opening morning of the Edgbaston Test four years ago will tempt Steve Waugh to unleash his pacemen on a makeshift England team when the 61st Ashes series begins tomorrow

The news that England's first-choice spinner, Ashley Giles of Warwickshire, will be fit to play if required in the First Test, which starts tomorrow at Edgbaston, will hearten an England team buffeted by injuries, illnesses and lack of fitness

Spectators will be fined £1,000 if they enter the playing area during the First Ashes Test between England and Australia at Edgbaston starting tomorrow, the ground's owners said

The final of the NatWest Series last Saturday at Lord's was almost a repeat of WC'99 final

As I write we are just two days from the First Test here in Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM, England - Injury-hit England has called up three players, including opening batsman Mark Butcher, to bolster its squad for the first Ashes cricket Test against Australia