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...

92nd over: West Indies 273-5 (target: 503; Nash 16 Ramdin 8) Ah I don't agree with this, Swann is on for a fiddle ahead of the interval. But then what do I know? The first ball takes the edge and shoots away past slip for two runs. Strauss has four men in around the bat. None of them get a sniff fro...

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...

England disintegrated under the searing Caribbean sun as fast as a discarded cube of ice. A match, destined it seemed for a decorous draw on a docile pitch, was lost within an hour in an astonishing transformation. It was almost a mirror image of 2004 when West Indies were bowled out for 47 with Ste...

2.48pm And what about Cook? The man once hailed as a child prodigy and labelled with the polite version of the initials FEC hasn't scored a Test hundred since December 2007 at Galle. Since then it's been all 60s. A flat pitch in sunny conditions against an inconsistent pace attack - it all adds up t...

Paul Weaver England will reap the benefits of their decision to return to India following the Mumbai terrorist attacks when they announce a ground-breaking agreement between the two countries this month which will include an Ashes-like five-Test series. The partnership, which will take further shape...

On his elevation to the England captaincy, Kevin Pietersen's praise for Steve ­Harmison was unstinting. He loved "Big Steve" and wanted him to be the spearhead of his England side. In his third Test in charge, he was part of the selection panel that dropped him. Big Steve equals big problem. Harmis...

England came, they saw, but against the heady expectations of the past two days they failed to conquer. A momentous Test victory had been in their grasp for most of the match, but instead it was wrested from them with remarkable comfort as India strolled to a six-wicket victory with about an hour of...

A redoubtable century stand between Andrew Strauss and Paul Collingwood, so far worth 129 for the fourth wicket, bolstered England's hopes of a famous victory in the politically-charged Chennai Test. At the close of the third day, England led by 247 with seven wickets remaining. Even the most optimi...