Cricket News

Within hours of England's final humiliating defeat in the Ashes series the ECB has instigated a review of the reasons behind the team's dismal showing over the last six weeks

Roger Knight, the former secretary and chief executive of the MCC, has been awarded honorary life membership of the club

The premier domestic competition in the land, the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, begins tomorrow with six matches at various venues around the country. Thirteen teams, divided into two leagues - Gold and Silver - will compete in the 49th edition of the tournament.

A summary of Round 5 of the State Shield matches

The sudden loss of two wickets on the fourth morning left India in an embarrassing position

India will blame themselves for turning a potentially matchwinning position to one of catch-up.

A round-up of the latest matches from the KFC Twenty20 tournament

Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer discuss their careers and futures

Australia's departing players have no worries about the side dropping from the top of the world rankings after spending the past decade keeping them there

Andrew Flintoff vowed that his first act as England's newly whitewashed captain would be to "switch off" for a day and let the tensions and frustrations of the past two months die away

England's 5-0 drubbing may have been their first at the hands of the Australians for 86 years, but the last occasion came much more recently than that. In 1984 and 1985-86, England slumped to ten defeats out of ten against the mighty West Indians

The last time Ricky Ponting faced the media at the end of an Ashes series, the first question he received came from a hard-talking TV news reporter who demanded his on-the-spot resignation for the "humiliation" of losing the closest and greatest Ashes con

Glenn McGrath's timeline shows he has been a consistent performer for Australia for more than a decade

Three relieved and tired men briefly came down from their retirement highs to speak for the final time as players in the same cream-coloured basement where Steve Waugh bowed out three years ago

A brief history of South Africa v Pakistan

Shane Warne troubled batsmen all over the world. Here, four champions tell Cricinfo what it was like facing the greatest legspinner

A close friend of Damien Martyn has strenuously denied that he retired from cricket after a bust-up with team-mates in the aftermath of the second Test at Adelaide

Peter English looks at the players lining up to replacing Australia's retiring veterans

Ashes competition 5 results

Twenty-two years ago when the last great player exodus occurred Australia began five years of despair. Australia now enter another period of uncertainty, but the prospects of the trough being as deep as last time are remote