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Root expected to stay at No. 4

Joe Root is set to stay at No. 4 in England's Test line-up for the series against Sri Lanka, but Alastair Cook admitted there were some "tough decisions" to be made about other batting positions

06-May-2016•Andrew McGlashan

Gritty Ballance provides Yorkshire foundation

Gary Ballance scored an unbeaten half-century as he and Jack Leaning helped revive Yorkshire on a day of interruptions at Edgbaston

24-Apr-2016•George Dobell at Edgbaston

Ballance admits to mental battle after England axing

Gary Ballance has confessed that losing his England place last summer hit him harder than he expected and he needed to consciously shut out critics

15-Apr-2016•Jon Culley

Ballance century offers England an immediate reminder

Gary Ballance, dropped by England midway through last summer's Ashes series, made an immediate statement in the traditional curtain-raiser to the English county season with a century against MCC in Abu Dhabi

20-Mar-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Rain frustrates England preparations

England's hopes of narrowing down their bowling options ahead of the Boxing Day Test were thwarted by a spectacular thunderstorm that wiped out the final afternoon of their opening warm-up game at Potchefstroom

17-Dec-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Anxious Sussex make inroads against champions

Still needing nine points to be safe from relegation, Sussex cannot yet permit themselves the gentle deceleration towards October in all its amber abundance

22-Sep-2015•Paul Edwards at Headingley

Ballance 'harshly treated' by England - Gale

Yorkshire's captain, Andrew Gale, has criticised England's decision to omit Adam Lyth and Gary Ballance from the Test squad for the UAE

16-Sep-2015•Alan Gardner

Gleam in Gale's eye tells of inevitable title

Yorkshire's second successive Championship looks a formality after an innings victory against Somerset in less than three days at Headingley

03-Sep-2015•Jon Culley at Headingley

Yorkshire blessed by England homecoming

Yorkshire, raised by England for much of the season, have been blessed by the homecoming of Jonny Bairstow, Gary Ballance and Adam Lyth as they close in on the Championship

02-Sep-2015•Jon Culley at Headingley

Joyce backs Rashid Test claims after duel

Ed Joyce scored a fine century after Gary Ballance's 165 guided Yorkshire to 494 on the second day at Hove

22-Aug-2015•Tim Wigmore at Hove

Ballance shows poise to rebuild Yorkshire

After being dropped by England Gary Ballance had vowed that he would have the confidence not to remodel his game. He has remained true to his word and, in an era of stultifying over-analysis, that shows a certain courage

21-Aug-2015•Tim Wigmore at Hove

Ansari stars as Surrey hold off Yorkshire

Gary Ballance hit his second fifty in three days after being dropped by England but it was not enough to prevent Yorkshire from losing to Surrey by six runs in the Royal London Cup

29-Jul-2015•ECB/PA

End of African era for England

The third Investec Ashes Test will mark the end of an era for English cricket. For the first time since the fourth Test against West Indies in Antigua in 2004, 139 matches ago, England will take the field in a Test match without a player born in southern

28-Jul-2015•Will Macpherson at Edgbaston

Ballance makes confidence-boosting runs

Gary Ballance eased his England disappointment by inspiring Yorkshire to a seven-run Duckworth-Lewis victory over Derbyshire in a rain-affected Royal London Cup game at Derby

27-Jul-2015•ECB/PA

Ballance dropped, Bairstow recalled

Gary Ballance has been dropped for the third Investec Test against Australia with Jonny Bairstow earning a recall in his place

21-Jul-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Root hundred puts England in charge

A sixth Test hundred from Joe Root helped England to a position of increasing dominance in Grenada, as they wore down West Indies during an extended day in the field

23-Apr-2015•The Report by Alan Gardner

Ballance hundred sets up victory push

England toiled hard to extract two of the ten wickets they hunted for victory in the opening Test on a dying surface, gaining a huge lift late in the day courtesy of a breathtaking slip catch from Chris Jordan, after leaving West Indies a target of 438

16-Apr-2015•The Report by Andrew McGlashan

Ballance not a one-day cricketer - Holding

Michael Holding has questioned whether Gary Ballance's last-minute inclusion at No 3 is the right World Cup call for England after they crashed to a spectacular defeat against New Zealand in Wellington

20-Feb-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

$Ballance suffers fractured finger$

Ballance suffers fractured finger

England batsman Gary Ballance has suffered a fractured finger in Australia but is expected to be fit for the World Cup. There will not be an additional batsman called into the squad for the on-going tri series

17-Jan-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Ballance recalled, Stokes dropped for World Cup

Gary Ballance is the player to benefit from Alastair Cook's sacking as one-day captain after he was named in England's World Cup squad. Ben Stokes and Harry Gurney have also been omitted from the team that was recently in Sri Lanka

20-Dec-2014•ESPNcricinfo staff

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