After the worth of Ashes and significance of one day cricket due to World Cup in February, T20 cricket looks unimportant for the time being. These are the two sides that played the second ever T20 international game, before that Australia had played New Zealand in the inaugural T20. Click for Live

England are celebrating as they have retained the Ashes but they haven't won it as yet. The series is poised at 2-1 to England and there is one more encounter remaining in this always entertaining series of cricket. The final game which will be played at Sydney Cricket Ground from Monday Jan

The series is evenly poised after a spectacular Australian show at Perth where they paced England out to win the match and level the series. To retain the Ashes England have to win just one of the two remaining Tests while Australia have to make sure they don't. Former players have said that psychol

England have taken a significant 1-0 lead in the five match Test series with three games to go. The hosts Australia are in all sorts of trouble, their bowling has been abysmal, batting has been dreadful and fielding has been sloppy. England completely outplayed Australia. Australians were chee

The first Test match was even though a draw but typically Ashes competitive. Both teams fought back admirably with balance of power shifting its place regularly. The English were deemed to lose but fought back to ensure an easy draw. The English team has been admired and it is the hosts that

Gabba will play host to opener of the greatest rivalry in cricket: The Ashes. England and Australia are the founding nations of cricket and this competition dates back to the 18th century. Ashes are played in fighting spirit with national pride at stake. England currently hold the Ashes, win

Pakistan Cricket Board are clearly not happy with Pakistan's wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider's shocking actions. He left the team right before the final encounter in Abu Dhabi and emerged from England. He said he was threatened by book makers. PCB's advisor Taffazul Rizvi called Zulqarnain Haid

The Pakistan cricket board chairman, Ijaz Butt, has said sorry to the English cricket board and the England team players for his remarks over the match-fixing in the Oval ODI. The chairman issued an apology after he had been threatened with legal action if he had failed to apologise to the Eng

When the itinerary for the four month long tour to England was decided, the Pakistani cricketers must have expected a tough tour coming up and would have been looking forward to the returning back to the nation because of the length of the tour. A tour that started so positively for the Paki

The English side for the Ashes series against the Aussies has been named and the presence of Chris Tremlett and Monty Panesar are the only two new additions to the expected side. it is a 16-member side and will see the English side take on Australia in a five-match series. The first Test match

Former Indian bowling coach and current bowling coach for the Chennai Super Kings, Venkatesh Prasad has launched a severe attack on the Indian bowlers. He has questioned the commitment and the attitude problems that the side has shown when it comes to the bowling attack. Prasad thinks

The Rose bowl in Southampton is the venue for the final game in the ODI series between England and Pakistan. The series has heated up after Pakistan's 38 run victory at Lords to level the series 2-2 and the off field comment of the PCB chairman Ijaz Butt. Butt accused England of throwi

Pakistan will travel to the ground in which their tour of England took an ugly turn towards the spot fixing scandal, tainting Pakistani Cricket forever. Lords is the venue for the fourth ODI between Pakistan and England. England lead the series 2-1 but Pakistan will be buoyed by their wonderfu

English all-round cricketer Andrew Flintoff has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. He made his announcement yesterday in a press release. Flintoff had not played cricket since the Ashes Test match of Oval in 2009, and was trying to recuperate from his injuries. His decision to

England would want to wrap the series when they meet Pakistan in the third ODI between the two sides at the Kennington Oval in London. England won the previous two matches, the first one with relative ease and the second one by holding their nerves in the last over. Pakistan may be down in

The second ODI between England and Pakistan will be played on Sunday at Headingley in Leeds. The match will start at 10.15 am local time, which means that it will be another day game, and will test how the Pakistani batsmen bat against the English seam bowlers. The disadvantage for the Pakis

The first ODI between England and Pakistan will be played on September 10 at Chester-le-Street. It is going to be a day match. Pakistan has already struggled on this tour so far, having lost the Test series 3-1 and the T20I series 2-0. What has been worse for them are the allegations of match-fi

England will play Pakistan in the second T20I of the two game series at Cardiff. England won the first T20I and lead the series 1-0, and a win here will ensure that they win their seventh successive T20I. England had earlier won five games in the World T20 and one here in this series. Englan

The first T20I between England and Pakistan will be played at Cardiff, but all the eyes will be on the events leading up to the game. In one of the biggest scandals to have hit the game of cricket, there have been allegations against some leading cricketers of match-fixing and spot-fixing, and

England announced their squads for the ODI and the T20I series against Pakistan that starts from September 5. However, the biggest news was the expulsion of the star English batsman, Kevin Pietersen from the two sides. Pietersen has been going through some rough form in recent times and though

England announced their squads for the ODI and the T20I series against Pakistan that starts from September 5. However, the biggest news was the expulsion of the star English batsman, Kevin Pietersen from the two sides. Pietersen has been going through some rough form in recent times and though

England will face Pakistan in the fourth and the final Test match which will be played at the Mecca of cricket, the Lord's. England had earlier led 2-0 before the Pakistani side came back well to win the third Test match at Oval to make it 2-1. If Pakistan is able to sustain their momentum in th

The third Test match between England and Pakistan will be played at the Oval. England have already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series and will look to make a clean sweep of the series. Pakistan, on the other hand, will look to ensure that they do not go into the fourth and the final

England will play Pakistan in the second Test match that starts from 6 August at Birmingham. England leads the series 1-0, a result that they had achieved by winning the first Test match at Trent Bridge by a whopping margin of 350 plus runs. Pakistan has had many issues with their batting. For

The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to take some prompt actions following team's shameful 354-run defeat in a Test match against England at Trent Bridge. Mohammad Yosuf has been asked to join the team for their remaining matches in England. Also, Danish Kaneria who had been struggling with

Pakistan's middle-order batsman, Misbah ul Haq, who had stunned everybody with his batting in the ICC World T20, has decided that he will retire from the game if he does not make it to the Pakistani team by the World Cup next year. Misbah was an integral part of the Pakistani team since the co

England will host Pakistan in a four Test match series, and the first of the games will be played on Thursday at Nottingham. Pakistan will go into the game after having beaten Australia at Headingley and will have their confidence sky-rocketing, whereas England have won series against Banglade

Now that is some exciting! The virtual underdogs, who were expected to be rolled over 3-0 again, after having lost all the games in this year, made a shocking comeback by beating England in the second ODI of the series to level it at 1-1. And that means that the virtual no-hopers in Bangladesh w

The second ODI between England and Bangladesh will be played at Bristol in Gloucester. England leads the series 1-0 after a convincing performance in the first ODI. They will look to win the second ODI in order to win the series and ensure that they go into the third game with a chance to expe

The first ODI between England and Bangladesh will be played on Thursday at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. This is the second leg of the tour of England for the Asian side, and this will follow the easy, 2-0 win that the English side had had over the Bangladeshis in the first leg of Test matches.