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...

The cricket authorities will seek to salvage a Test match for Antigua after the second Test between West Indies and England at the new Sir Vivian Richards Stadium was embarrassingly abandoned on safety grounds after 10 balls. A third Test will now begin at the old Recreation Ground in St John'son Su...

The former Australia fast bowler Geoff Lawson is understood to have been sounded out over the vacant England coaching job. Lawson, who is currently out of work after a stint with the Pakistan team, declined to comment on the approach but his stern, occasionally acerbic approach may well be what...

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...

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...

According to the IPL organising committee, one Kevin Pietersen is worth about 13 Monty Panesars – England's left-arm spinner was given a reserve price of $100,000 (£70,000) for the players' auction in Goa next week. But Panesar can take delight that at least he is still in the mix, with a reserve...