Jonathan Trott has been named as captain of an England Lions squad to tour South Africa early next year.
Trott was named in a provisional touring party back in October less than a year after a stress-related illness caused him to quit the senior England side’s Ashes series.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board has chosen Headingley and Old Trafford as hosts for the 2019 Ashes Test Series ahead of Trent Bridge and Cardiff.
Lord’s, The Oval and Edgbaston will host the other three Ashes contests with Nottingham and the Welsh capital both missing out after being named as venues for the visit of Australia in 2015.
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Michael Carberry was ready to board a plane to Perth this time 12 months ago. Not with England, but to join Scorchers for a season in the Big Bash League.
An agreement had been reached and a contract signed which Carberry ultimately couldn’t fulfil due to a dream call-up to the England Test side for the Ashes series against Australia.
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England captain Charlotte Edwards is adamant her Australian cricket adventure is not distracting her from the task of retaining the Ashes next summer.
The 34-year-old has taken the opportunity this winter to test herself with Western Fury, the representative women’s cricket team of Western Australia.
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Kevin Pietersen hasn’t given up hope of playing Test cricket for England again.
Pietersen says he desires to play in another Ashes series to get vengeance for England’s humiliating 5-0 defeat in Australia.
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As England prepare to take on Sri Lanka in a seven-match ODI series, we look back at some classic moments from recent clashes…
‘Mankad’ madness – 2014
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England Women fast bowler Katherine Brunt says the 2015 Women’s Ashes could be the most exciting yet thanks to the new points system.
The multi-format series, which you’ll be able to watch live in its entirety on Sky Sports for the first time next summer, will again consist of three ODIs, three Twenty20s and one Test, to be played from August 11-14 at Canterbury.
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Sky Sports will show live coverage of every ball of the new-look Women’s Ashes for the first time next summer.
The 2015 Series will be the third time that the Women’s Ashes have been contested across all three formats of the game – England winning 12-4 on home soil in 2013 and 10-8 Down Under at the start of this year.
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Jonathan Trott will come back to international cricket this winter using the England Lions in the tour of South Africa.
Trott hasn’t played for England since making last winter’s Ashes tour with a pressure-associated sickness.
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Australian cricket head coach Darren Lehmann will stay in his job until June 2017 after signing a one-year contract extension.
Lehmann’s first contract had been due to expire in June 2016, however a great run of form – which contained a 5-0 Ashes whitewash over England – has found him lead the side to second in the ICC test positions and prompted the extension.
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Former England batsman Geofrey Boycott has launched a scathing attack on the ECB for their handling of the Kevin Pietersen affair.
Boycott is furious with the governing body over the leaked ‘dossier’ which surfaced on Tuesday and appeared to outline a list of what the ECB saw as Pietersen’s misdemeanours during the Ashes whitewash defeat in Australia last winter, after which Pietersen was sacked despite being England’s top run-scorer in the series.
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Kevin Pietersen has given his reaction to the leaked ECB document which sets out a series of allegations against the former England batsman.
Perhaps the most serious accusation of all is that Pietersen threatened to quit the Ashes tour if England went 3-0 down in the series, a suggestion which the 34-year-old has rejected out of hand.
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Former England captain Michael Atherton says he doubts the veracity of some of the claims in Kevin Pietersen’s book and believes it is a ‘bitter settling of scores’.
Pietersen told Sky Sports News HQ on Tuesday evening he stood by everything in his autobiography, in which he is highly critical of several former England teammates and former team director Andy Flower for their attitude and behaviour during the 5-0 Ashes whitewash last winter.
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Warwickshire’s Jonathan Trott says he is ‘more powerful as a man’ and would welcome a recall to the England Test team.
Trott, 33, made his last international appearance in the very first Ashes Test in Brisbane in November, before returning home having a pressure-associated sickness.
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Warwickshire batsman Jonathan Trott says he’s prepared for an England recall.
Trott left the Ashes tour a year ago following the initial Test in Brisbane due to some pressure-related sickness and hasn’t played worldwide since.
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