Category: Sport

An epic four-Test series between Australia and India will be in the lap of the weather gods on its decisive final day at the Gabba, where the tourists will resume on 4-0 after being set a target of 328. Australia were bowled out for 294 on a topsy-turvy fourth day of the series-deciding fourth Test. […]

Joe Root challenged his England players to strive for the next level of performance come Friday’s second Test against Sri Lanka in Galle after a seven-wicket win in the series opener that reminded him the team is far from the finished article. There was obvious delight in the away dressing room when Jonny Bairstow’s swept […]

After the presentation and the press conferences were out of the way, and the dust on the well-worn pitch had settled, Joe Root stepped out on to the outfield in Galle to speak to the solitary England fan who, from the ramparts of the neighbouring Dutch fort, had witnessed in person the team’s seven-wicket victory. […]

A freewheeling Rishabh Pant has stormed Australia’s Gabba fortress in record-breaking fashion, helping India snatch a three-wicket win to cap one of the greatest Test series of the modern era. A stoic Cheteshwar Pujara refused to release India’s four-year hold of the Border-Gavaskar trophy on a dramatic final day of the four-Test series, weathering 211 […]

A century ago England were in Australia, approaching the end of the third Test and on their way to the first 5-0 series whitewashing of their history. It was a grim time for the team, weakened as they inevitably had been by the ravages of the first world war, and they would not win a […]

“Every session we discovered a new hero,” he said of how an untested and inexperienced team, which had so little going for it, managed one of the greatest victories in Test cricket. “Every time we got hit, we stayed put and stood taller. We pushed the boundaries of belief to play fearless but not careless […]

There is nothing like the feeling after a classic Test series. There may be greater peaks of human joy or pleasure, but this is a high that fades into a particular satisfaction, elation dimming warmly within us like the spot of light that remains when turning off an old television. It’s because of the amount […]