SYDNEY - Key moments in the 2010/11 Ashes series between Australia and England after the tourists won the fifth test at the SCG for a 3-1 series victory on Friday.
SYDNEY - Key moments in the 2010/11 Ashes series between Australia and England after the tourists won the fifth test at the SCG for a 3-1 series victory on Friday.
Pakistan’s Abdul Rehman produced a sustained, tight spell of left-arm spin bowling to take three wickets for 51 runs as New Zealand scrambled to 260 for seven at the close of play on the first day of the first Test at Seddon Park on Friday.
Results of Ashes series since World War Two after England beat Australia by an innings and 83 runs in the fifth and final test in Sydney on Friday to claim a 3-1 series win.
SYDNEY — Andrew Strauss acclaimed England’s emphatic first Ashes series triumph in Australia for 24 years as “pretty special” as his team inflicted a record third innings drubbing in the final Test on Friday.
LONDON — English commentators hailed their cricketers' crushing defeat of Australia on Friday, saying the side's first Ashes series win Down Under for 24 years heralded the start of a new era.
England claimed a first Ashes series triumph in Australia in nearly a quarter of a century in the most emphatic style on Friday after wrapping up a third dominant innings victory in five tests.
India validated their ranking as the number one team in Test cricket when they drew the third and final Test and earned a share of the series against second-ranked South Africa at Newlands on Thursday.
CAPE TOWN - Indian bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth lost 10 per cent match fee for kicking the boundary rope while the entire team have been fined separately for slow over rate, the International Cricket Council said on Thursday.
CAPE TOWN - Indian bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth lost 10 per cent match fee for kicking the boundary rope while the entire team have been fined separately for slow over rate, the International Cricket Council said on Thursday.
Australian cricket has hit rock-bottom but is not in crisis, acting captain Michael Clarke said after his team’s Sydney Test capitulation Friday that saw them lose the Ashes series 3-1 to England.