Andrew Strauss, with another half-century, was leading the way once more as England set out on their quest to win the final Test and level the series but it was a slow march rather than a charge. The England captain, with centuries in Antigua and Barbados, carried that scintillating form to Queens P...

After two days of this Test match, the bookmakers had marked the draw up at 10-1 on. They were not going to go out of business on that one. Once they had survived the whirlwind that is Fidel Edwards, there was little doubt that England would be able to bat out the match without real alarm and they d...

For decades, Kensington Oval was the impregnable fortress of West Indies cricket. Sides came here with aspiration and departed bereft and bruised from battering at the ramparts and the hammering inflicted on them by the rampant greats. Once, when Michael Holding bowled his legendary over to Geoffrey...

• Captain scores 142 as England reach 301-3• West Indies fight back in final session West Indies clawed their way back in the final session after England came at them hard for much of the day. Humiliated in Jamaica and deprived in Antigua, Andrew Strauss, a general leading the charge rather than...

History repeated itself at the Antigua Recreation Ground yesterday as England and West Indies drew the third Test in the most dramatic fashion. The light was already closing in when the last West Indies batsman, Fidel Edwards, joined Daren Powell with England rampant and closing in for the kill. But...

England were well on their way to winning the third Test last night. A first half to the day, in which ponderously at first and then more energetically they established a position from which they could not lose the match, was followed by the second in which they began the process of whittling away W...

The captain led from the front yesterday as Test cricket returned triumphantly to the Antigua Recreation Ground. Stung by the humiliation of the defeat in Jamaica and adamant that attitudes must change, Andrew Strauss responded with an innings of great authority that gave England the upper hand on t...

Andrew Strauss may be doing his best to heal rifts that opened up in the England ranks in the aftermath of the Peter Moores-Kevin Pietersen affair, but friction is never far away. With only 24 hours to go before the start of the first Test here, there was still doubt about whether Andrew Flintoff wa...