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ECB set to snub Australian request

Australia's request to make their two pre-Ashes warm-up matches 2-a-side games set to be turned down

27-May-2009•Cricinfo staff

Lee and Clark no certainties for first Test

Brett Lee and Stuart Clark will have to wait until the first two tour games to secure their spots in the bowling pecking order for the Ashes

26-May-2009•Peter English

Ponting sharpens Twenty20 vision

Ricky Ponting flies to England on Wednesday as one of Australia's most accomplished Test and one-day players, but his reputation in the Twenty20 set-up is less certain

26-May-2009•Peter English

Mentors put Watson on flight to England

Shane Watson has relied on four Australian greats to help lift him on to his first Ashes tour

23-May-2009•Cricinfo staff

England switched Ashes venues on purpose - Ponting

Ricky Ponting believes the Ashes schedule was changed deliberately to avoid England hosting the first game at Lord's

23-May-2009•Cricinfo staff

ECB demands clampdown on onselling of tickets

The ECB is pressing for more stringent laws to tackle the selling-on of tickets, according to a report in the Guardian

22-May-2009•Cricinfo staff

Use World Twenty20 to build Ashes momentum - Gough

Darren Gough believes England can use the forthcoming ICC World Twenty20 to build vital momentum ahead of Australia's arrival later this summer

22-May-2009•Andrew Miller

Middlesex experience invaluable for Hughes

Phillip Hughes believes his county stint with Middlesex will prove the perfect preparation for the Ashes

22-May-2009•Cricinfo staff

Clark reignites county row

Stuart Clark is again set to raise the hackles of England players and officials with confirmation he has agreed terms with Gloucestershire for a two-match stint ahead of the Ashes

22-May-2009•Alex Brown

Players and WAGs head to camp

Australia's players go into camp on Sunday in preparation for the World Twenty20 and the Ashes

22-May-2009•Peter English

Manou keen to follow Haddin's lead

Graham Manou has just learnt that a lot can change between two Ashes series. When England visited in 2006-07, South Australia dropped an out-of-form Manou from the side to face Andrew Flintoff's men in a tour match

21-May-2009•Brydon Coverdale

Johnson piles pressure on Bopara

As expected for a man whose girlfriend is a karate black-belt, Mitchell Johnson doesn't intimidate easily. So the sight of England's No. 3 Ravi Bopara rattling off three consecutive centuries against West Indies hasn't worried him in the slightest

21-May-2009•Brydon Coverdale and Alex Brown

Fast men prepare to fight for their places

As a former real estate agent, Stuart Clark knows plenty about supply and demand. Right now there are five men bidding for what Clark wants - a fast-bowling place in the first Test - but the market is tight and there are probably only three available

20-May-2009•Brydon Coverdale at the SCG

England can win Ashes - Flower

With 50 days to go before the Ashes, England coach Andy Flower has said that he believes his team has what it takes to win back the urn following their 2-0 series win over West Indies

20-May-2009•Andrew McGlashan

Rashid eyes Ashes squad role

Yorkshire's legspinner, Adil Rashid, has set his sights on an Ashes call-up in a summer in which England's trump card against Australia could well be the depth and versatility of their slow bowling

20-May-2009•Andrew Miller

Ponting aims to set things right

There aren't many gaps on Ricky Ponting's cricket CV. But there is one glaring omission that he hopes will be rectified in the next few months

20-May-2009•Brydon Coverdale at the SCG

Watson wins battle with Symonds

Shane Watson and Andrew Symonds are two large, strong men, and like a pair of gunslingers in a western movie, this town ain't big enough for them both

20-May-2009•Brydon Coverdale at the SCG

Katich the comeback king

The Ashes have not been kind to Simon Katich

20-May-2009•Alex Brown

McDonald in, Symonds out of Ashes squad

The squad: Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Stuart Clark, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Ben Hilfenhaus, Phillip Hughes, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Simon Katich, Brett Lee, Graham Manou, Andrew McDonald, Marcus North, Peter Siddle, Shane Watson

20-May-2009•Alex Brown

Ponting backs Symonds for Ashes spot

Ricky Ponting has said he would be more than happy to have Andrew Symonds in his Ashes squad but conceded the selectors faced a hard call on whether they could squeeze him in

19-May-2009•Cricinfo staff

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