Cricket

England were humiliated in the Test series against Pakistan. They went in as favourites and got whitewashed. But this isn't a team who will let defeat dent their confidence. They'll see this challenge

Team News Shafiul Islam is still out with a shoulder injury but his replacement Nazmul Hossain bowled brilliantly against Sri Lanka and will surely keep his place. Nazimuddin failed again and is vuln

Saturday night's match saw a match-winning knock from the rather heavy bat of Jonny Bairstow. I've spoken here before about how we have plenty of young talent coming through the ranks and this guy is

Kevin Pietersen is on a roll. Having gone 38 ODI innings without a century, spread over three years, he scored his second in two matches yesterday. And if his ton on Sunday felt a bit like a pressure-

I was pretty sad to hear the news that Ricky Ponting has been dropped from Australia's ODI team for the rest of the Commonwealth Bank series. We're talking about one of the all-time greats here. On

So England are 3-0 up and whatever happens in the last match, they will have gone some way to avenging that whitewash in the Test series. Make no mistake about it though: England will be desperate to

I've said already that I don't expect this ODI series to be any easier for England than the Test series was. It will be played on the same pitches, a lot of the Pakistan players will be the same and s

The Test series was a rude awakening for England but they get a chance to try and redeem themselves with this four-match ODI series. If we're looking for positives then we can say that some of the Eng

Before a ball had been kicked in anger, many were predicting that it would be Liverpool who would improve significantly on last year's finish (sixth) and that Spurs would probably finish in a very sim

First things first. Just about anyone and everyone who has an opinion on cricket has been very quick to rubbish England's performance in the Second Test and that's fair enough. But let's not forget on