Play at Melbourne Park starts at 11am in Melbourne, 12am GMTAndy Murray and tennis world react after Novak Djokovic deportedAny thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytnerAustralia’s prime minister Scott Morrison – as indeed pretty much every politician in t…
Ashes 2021-22 fifth Test, day one: Australia v England – live!
Play in the day-night Test starts at 3pm in Hobart, 4am GMTThe Spin: subscribe to our weekly cricket newsletterAny thoughts? Feel free to email Jonathan In this chilly climes, Brendan from Sydney reminds us that Onslow in Western Australia yesterday re…
Ashes 2021-22 fourth Test, day five: Australia v England – live!
The Spin: subscribe to our weekly cricket newsletterAny thoughts? Email Tim or tweet @TimdeLisle12th over: England 30-0 (Hameed 8, Crawley 22)Boland kicks things off and there’s a bat-pad appeal straight away, but it’s non-committal. Hameed leaves the …
Ashes 2021-22 fourth Test, day three: Australia v England – live!
Khawaja’s century a triumph for Australia’s problem solverAny thoughts? Email Tim or tweet @TimdeLisleSpeaking of the sounds of cricket, here’s The Final World Daily podcast for your ears.“I am envious of Mr. Ineson’s ability to fall gently to sleep to…
Welcome back to Test cricket – there’s much life in the grand old game | Barney Ronay
At last there is a contest in this Ashes series, while action in New Zealand and South Africa shows the red-ball duel is in rude health: take note, ECBAnd here, as they used to say on TV game shows – as that tumble dryer, that golden fondue set, drifts…
Australian Open: Djokovic held alone without phone at airport over visa row
World No 1’s participation at Melbourne tournament in doubtAustralian PM says ‘no special rules’ despite medical exemptionNovak Djokovic’s attempts to compete at the Australian Open this month were thrown into fresh doubt on Wednesday as he was held at…
Never mind England’s misery, celebrate Australia’s Ashes brilliance | Sam Perry
Australia won the Ashes in twelve days playing superb cricket, despite starting the series under pressureHave Australia been good or have England been bad? Obviously, this is the only way to analyse the Ashes. And it allows us to fling open the door to…
‘The respect of everyone’: how Ray Illingworth won the Ashes
Current England team could learn a lot from the gutsy captain who triumphed against the odds in 1970-71As Joe Root has discovered, an Ashes tour to Australia can unspool as precipitously as a ball of wool bounding down a fire escape. Five England teams…
English cricket must aspire to more than Giles’s brand of middle management | Jonathan Liew
The England setup seems to be lacking the innovation, imagination and variety of voices that moves a team forwardWith an impeccable sense of timing, Ashley Giles flies into Sydney next week to join up with the England squad ahead of the fourth Ashes Te…
Hope can rise from this Ashes debacle, if the ECB stops choking the golden goose | Barney Ronay
This latest defeat exposes the poverty in English Test cricket but it is possible to resist the decline, starting with bringing to account those overseeing itChris Silverwood is taking the positives. Chris Silverwood was expecting this. Chris Silverwoo…