England

News The Test career of Crawley’s mentor, Rob Key, serves as a cautionary tale Zak Crawley isn’t really the sort to go in for tubthumping, nor would he ever claim to be the one and only. But he has insisted he doesn’t want to be remembered as a “one-hit wonder” as he heads into England’s

England’s tour of Sri Lanka is still going ahead for now © Getty Images England’s tour of Sri Lanka will continue – for now, at least – after the latest round of Covid-19 tests showed no new positive results. The squad will hold their first training session of the tour in Hambantota on Wednesday afternoon,

Moeen Ali tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving in Sri Lanka © AFP/Getty Images England’s touring party in Sri Lanka faces an anxious wait in their hotel rooms just as their preparations for the Test series should have begun in earnest. England were due to have their first training session of the tour in Hambantota

News Ali enters 10-day self-isolation period and appears certain to miss first Test Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival in Sri Lanka. England landed in Sri Lanka on Sunday, January 3 ahead of their two-Test series and were tested on arrival, with Ali’s result coming back positive. He will be required to

News Psychologist to travel with team to Sri Lanka as part of focus on players’ mental wellbeing England will have to “manage” the threat of Covid-19 as well as devote extra attention to physical and mental wellbeing on their three-month tour of the subcontinent, according to Test captain Joe Root – and that includes being

News England’s Test captain eager for challenges to come after ‘frustrating summer’ with the bat Having turned 30 earlier this week, and facing a defining year as captain that will include his 100th Test and culminate in England’s attempts to regain the Ashes in Australia next winter, Joe Root is hopeful that he could be

News ECB to appoint permanent staff member with player welfare brief England are set to recruit a dedicated staff member to look after their players’ mental wellbeing, in response to concerns about the consequences of having to spend extended periods in biosecure environments. England’s limited-overs tour of South Africa was cut short earlier this month,

You’re not going to lose it in three weeks. That is the attitude Sam Billings is carrying into his first BBL match for the Sydney Thunder after 14 days quarantine in an Australian hotel room. Billings could be forgiven for showing some frustration at the Covid cricket world where isolation and bio-secure bubbles are the

News Bowler played four Tests for England in 1981-82, before moving into TV commentary Robin Jackman, the former Surrey and England seamer who went on to become one of the leading broadcasters in South African cricket, has died at the age of 75. Jackman, who made his Test debut in 1981 at the age of

News Edrich played 77 Tests between 1963 and 1976, most often as a fearless left-handed opener John Edrich, the former England batsman who was renowned as one of the world’s doughtiest players of fast bowling, has died at the age of 83. He died of natural causes on December 23, at his house in north

News ECB respond to latest government advice after update from health secretary England’s tour of Sri Lanka will proceed as planned on January 2, according to the ECB, in spite of the UK government requiring any person who has been in South Africa in the past fortnight to quarantine immediately, due to the discovery of