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...

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...

It is 20odd years since English noses were rubbed quite so hard into the Caribbean dirt and it is taking its toll on Andrew Strauss's brave new world....