Cricket News

Ian Bell made his third century of the series to give England a significant advantage in the third Test

Chris Rogers is not only a Test cricketer again, five years after his one-off match against India, but he is a Test centurion

Hot Spot inventor Warren Brennan has called for protective coatings to be removed from bats in order to achieve the most accurate thermal imaging results

On the most difficult day to bat in the Investec Ashes series so far, with Stuart Broad breathing fire in the sorts of spells he can occasionally conjure, Chris Rogers scrapped, scraped, nudged and edged his way to a vital century

Nathan Lyon's remarkably incisive contribution was central to England's sharp decline from 149 for 2 to 238 for 9 on the first day at Chester-le-Street

The ICC has confirmed that the inventor of Hot Spot, Warren Brennan, raised concerns with them this week over the effect of bat coatings on the technology

Alastair Cook has dismissed accusations that England's batsmen have tried to cheat Hot Spot as "blatantly not true"

ESPNcricinfo previews the third Investec Ashes Test at Durham

Hot Spot will be used for the remainder of the Ashes series despite tests reportedly showing that silicone tape on bats can disguise faint edges

Jackson Bird could play his first Test of this Ashes tour after being named in Australia's 12 for the fourth Investec Test at Chester-le-Street, starting on Friday

Shane Watson believes that DRS has upstaged the act of giving the benefit of the doubt to the batsman in this Ashes series

The ECB has demanded an "explanation and apology" from Australian TV station Channel Nine following claims that players have been using silicone tape on the edges of their bats to fool Hot Spot during the current Ashes series

Shane Watson has said he is happy for his role in the team to evolve and concedes he has not scored enough runs at the top of the order on this tour to lock himself into a permanent opening position

Andy Flower, the England team director, admitted the Decision Review System "hasn't worked well at all" in the Investec Ashes series but does not advocate a return to the days of no technology

Shane Watson's rebirth as a Test opener could be short-lived with Australia's brains trust considering reinstating David Warner at the top of the order for the fourth Test in Chester-le-Street

England will keep the Ashes for the next five months at least after Manchester's weather proved a far more impassable barrier to Australia's bowlers than the hosts' top order batting on a grey final day at Old Trafford

David Warner saw the lighter side of his dismissal on Sunday, when he sent a delivery from Tim Bresnan to Joe Root at deep square leg

Matt Prior has suggested he would welcome England and Australian umpires officiating in Ashes Tests in an attempt to eradicate the errors that have marred the Investec Ashes series

Australia's captain Michael Clarke was far from alone in fuming as the umpires made the unilateral decision to take the teams off for bad light

Kevin Pietersen has claimed that he almost missed the back-to-back Ashes series due to the knee injury he sustained in New Zealand