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Broad senses opportunity with Smith at 3

Ahead of the Ashes some in the England camp feel the decision to promote Steven Smith to No. 3 in the batting order may weaken a significant strength in the Australian line-up

27-Jun-2015•George Dobell

Harris fights to regain his place

Ryan Harris rates Australia's pace battery well ahead of the equivalent set of fast men who came to England in 2013. The fact he may well be missing from the XI for the first Test in Cardiff is a fair indicator of why

27-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig in Canterbury

Mitchell Marsh edges ahead in Test battle after ton

Mitchell Marsh has done everything within his power to press for a spot in Australia's first Test XI, leaving Shane Watson to prove his fitness as a bowler next week or risk being dropped from the side

27-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig in Canterbury

Cook aims for 'remarkable' Ashes glory

Alastair Cook has suggested that winning the Investec Ashes this summer would rate as "the biggest achievement" of his career

26-Jun-2015•George Dobell

Confident Smith limbers up for Ashes

No matter what the bowlers do, right now the only man in the world who can get Steven Smith out is, well, Steven Smith

26-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig in Canterbury

Johnson fires up but Watson, Marsh miss out

Where Mitchell Johnson signalled his intent to again dent England neither Shane Watson nor Mitchell Marsh were able to push ahead as the allrounder most likely to take a pivotal place in Australia's first Test X

26-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig in Canterbury

MCC launch further investigation of Rogers' tickets

If Chris Rogers hoped the "ticketgate" incident had blown over, news that the MCC has launched a formal investigation will have provoked a rethink

26-Jun-2015•George Dobell

Vital to get to know Bayliss - Cook

There will be no boxing sessions or survival lessons as England prepare for the Ashes in the more gentle surroundings of the Spanish sunshine over the next four days

26-Jun-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Shaun Marsh makes his pitch for Test retention

Shaun Marsh began his Ashes tour with a century against Kent to stake a claim for retaining his spot in the Test side but there were also runs for Chris Rogers

25-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig in Canterbury

Bayliss begins 14-day Ashes countdown

The first Australian ever to coach England, Trevor Bayliss is scheduled to arrive at Heathrow on Thursday less than a fortnight before the start of the Investec Ashes series

25-Jun-2015•David Hopps

Rogers, Watson try to secure spots

Lost somewhat in the hubbub about Chris Rogers' failed tour group venture was a most intriguing Australian team selection for the Kent tour match in the medieval city of Canterbury.

24-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig

Rogers rebuked for Ashes tickets offer

Australian opening batsman Chris Rogers has been left red-faced after it emerged that he has been attempting to sell tickets for the Ashes Test at Lord's contrary to regulations

23-Jun-2015•George Dobell

Confident Lyon eyes English left-handers

Nathan Lyon is excited at the opportunity to bowl against an England team loaded with as many as seven left-handers on pitches he expects will be batting-friendly with a bit of spin

23-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig

Australians return to their heartbreak hotel

Kensington's Royal Garden Hotel has been greeting Australian teams as their London base camp for 17 years but if these walls could talk, they would not have much happy to say for their Australian clientele.

21-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig

Clarke denies ordering Warner to sledge

Australia's captain Michael Clarke has emphatically denied ever instructing David Warner to sledge opponents, and stated that the coach Darren Lehmann has never done so either

21-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig

England must 'nullify' Starc - Swann

Australia may be strong favourites to retain the Ashes, but Graeme Swann believes there is little to fear from them

21-Jun-2015•George Dobell

No boot camp for Footitt

Stuart Broad says that Mark Footitt, the surprise call up for England's pre-Ashes camp, can at least be grateful that he will not be holding a brick above his head at three in the morning

19-Jun-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Arrogance has held England back - Swann

Graeme Swann has blasted previous England regimes for their "arrogance" in sticking to outdated game plans in limited-overs cricket and suggested that they "massively cocked up" by not selecting Adil Rashid in the Test team for the series in the Caribbean

19-Jun-2015•George Dobell

Mark Footitt picked for pre-Ashes camp

Derbyshire fast bowler Mark Footitt has been included in a group of 14 England players who will travel to Spain for a pre-Ashes training camp from June 27

18-Jun-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

England challenged to take Australia on

Freed up to speak about the Ashes after doing their best to concentrate on a lopsided series against the West Indies, Darren Lehmann and Michael Clarke have offered a simple message to a newly aggressive and creative England team: bring it on

15-Jun-2015•Daniel Brettig

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