Match Analysis

Big Vern reels in the big fish

Over the course of 13 balls delivered from his favourite Wynberg End, Vernon Philander set Virat Kohli up and sent him back with the most artful of knockout blows

08-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga in Cape Town

India should rue fatal first day

It's easy to fall for recency bias and blame a fourth-innings collapse for losing a winnable contest, but India know their bowlers and batsmen really let the Newlands Test slip in the first innings

08-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga in Cape Town

Rohit, Dhawan and the limits of 'current form'

Runs against Sri Lanka earned Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan their places in India's XI for Cape Town, ahead of Ajinkya Rahane and KL Rahul respectively, but neither justified his selection

08-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga in Cape Town

South Africa play starring role in 'advert for Test cricket'

In what Faf du Plessis called one of his 'favourite games of cricket', South Africa kept getting into difficult positions and kept finding a way out of them

08-Jan-2018•Firdose Moonda in Cape Town

Tea and sympathy won't suffice as England face up to another drubbing

Stoicism is an admirable trait that serves the country well, but it's time to get really rather cross about the state of English cricket

08-Jan-2018•George Dobell at Sydney

The futile finale of a drained Joe Root

Joe Root started the Ashes with boyish optimism but finished it asleep in the dressing-room, ill and exhausted after a tour of perpetual scrutiny and failure

08-Jan-2018•Jarrod Kimber at Sydney

The Ashes event now transcends the cricket

This was the second-highest attended Ashes of all time, viewing figures have been strong and Steven Smith has moved towards greatness. But much of the action was far from memorable

08-Jan-2018•Daniel Brettig

Farbrace calls for honesty after England failings are 'exposed'

Planning must start now, says assistant coach, if England are to mount a challenge on future Ashes tours

07-Jan-2018•George Dobell in Sydney

Lyon's share recalls Warne impact

Expectation rises whenever Nathan Lyon takes the ball, and England have largely been worried out of attacking him

07-Jan-2018•Daniel Brettig at Sydney

Did we see the first and the last of South Africa's pace quartet?

When Steyn went off the field, we were quickly faced with the reality that this quartet may not play many matches together

06-Jan-2018•Firdose Moonda in Cape Town

A day when Pandya talked, and walked it too

The impact of the 24-year-old allrounder's 93 runs and two wickets in this Test will be seen soon, but there is a larger impact of this effort that merits commendation

06-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga in Cape Town

The toast is aflame but butter won't melt for England

England, in training, in batting, in self-appraisals, are beginning to sound just a little bit soft

06-Jan-2018•George Dobell in Sydney

Crane's exoticism atones for lack of impact

Mason Crane was a source of endless fascination in spite of a tough first outing in Test cricket, but he bore the attention well

06-Jan-2018•Jarrod Kimber at Sydney

Khawaja's Ashes hype grows into substance

Seven years on from an oddly overblown debut innings, Usman Khawaja finally attained Ashes fulfilment at the ground where it all began

06-Jan-2018•Daniel Brettig at Sydney

India's surprise moves turn into damp squib

Can surprising selection choices, unsuitable lines and lengths, and the dropped catch witnessed on the opening day justify the visitors' pre-series claims of preparedness?

05-Jan-2018•Sidharth Monga at Newlands

Cosmetic changes won't mask England's deep structural flaws

England's inability to compete in the Ashes would once have been a matter of national shame. But the ECB's priorities lie elsewhere

05-Jan-2018•George Dobell in Sydney

Khawaja, Bancroft contrast on village day

The 22nd day of Ashes combat in this series stretched the mental reserves of both teams, but some players coped better than others

05-Jan-2018•Daniel Brettig at Sydney

Nightwatchman would not have halted England's crime wave

England keep repeating the same errors without learning or suffering the consequences

04-Jan-2018•George Dobell in Sydney

Pretty starts and brainfarts: the story of Vince's career

The beauty of James Vince's batting masks a consistent failure to convert starts into finishes, a flaw that would not be tolerated in a less attractive player

04-Jan-2018•Jarrod Kimber at Sydney

Australia reminded of Starc reality

Australia are not the same team without a 100% fit Mitchell Starc - and that includes when Starc is actually playing

04-Jan-2018•Daniel Brettig at Sydney

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