Author and Manly fan Thomas Keneally reveals his shock at this week’s Australian drug report

Centre missed the match against Scotland

For the second year running, England internationals Matt Prior and Ravi Bopara failed to attract any bids at the player auction for the Indian Premier League.

Stuart Lancaster forced to rejig midfield while injury forces Alex Corbisiero to sit out the entire tournament

England will face a wounded India next week after Nasir Jamshed's second consecutive century earned Pakistan a one-day series victory today.

Anna Karenina brushed aside by a streetcar

6 December: Alastair Cook breaks England century record

The plea was in danger of falling on deaf ears. They listened but they did not necessarily hear. When England were crushed in the opening match of the Test series against India, their coach Andy Flower was disappointed but rational. In a considered discourse he asked three times that judgement should be delivered not then, not in the immediate wake of the nine-wicket drubbing, but at the end of the series. It was an entirely reasonable request which equally could not entirely conceal the suspicion that he was playing for time.

Alastair Cook: 10/10

Double-century partnership between Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell leads England to their first Test series win in India since the days of David Gower

England today recorded their first series victory in India for 27 years. Here, we take a look at how the players rated...

Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell both record centuries on final day

On the one hand, there are three senior batsmen – one of them senior to anyone else in the cricket world – but none of them is anywhere near the kind of form that made them heroes to Indian fans.

England bowler misses net practice