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The Latest Breaking News on Zak Crawley splits opinion but insists ‘risk and reward’ is only way forward

Matthew Wade insists players still keen to take part in The Hundred

There have been several high-profile pull-outs across the men’s and women’s tournaments this year.

The Independent UK

Zak Crawley looks to test India with Bazball approach next year, wants to adapt to pitches

England's Zak Crawley says India tour in 2024 presents 'amazing opportunity' to showcase Bazball. Adapting to conditions key. England last won Test series in India in 2011-12. Crawley hopes for pitches that suit England's seamers and spinners.

The Hindu

Zak Crawley explains how doomed Australia tour helped him become ‘unlikely’ Ashes hero

Zak Crawley says his standout innings in Sydney during the last Ashes series in Australia gave him the confidence to take on the world’s best attack this summer - but admits even he did not think he would end up England’s leading run-scorer.

Evening Standard

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Cricket’s young guns ready to step up when England change the old guard

Stuart Broad and Moeen Ali have gone and with Ashes heroes knocking on, who are the next generation pushing for a call-up?

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s no way I’m going’: Moeen Ali on Test return for England against India

Moeen Ali retired from Test cricket in 2021, but made himself available for the Ashes 2023 series. He declined an offer to play in India's five-match Test series in 2024, as he had already made his intentions to retire clear to England skipper Ben Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum.…

The Hindu

Bairstow stumping to Broad bails: 15 moments that shaped the 2023 Ashes

All five Tests had twists, starting with Ben Stokes’s declaration at Edgbaston through to Stuart Broad’s sting in the bail

The Guardian - UK

Stuart Broad: Ben Stokes was taking me out of attack before Todd Murphy wicket

The 37-year-old announced his retirement at the end of day three of his 167th Test.

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Sam Curran interview: Enjoying my cricket is key but Test return is the target

It will be two years this month since Sam Curran played his last Test match, a small quirk of the not-that-new regime that a cricketer seemingly so suited to the brief is yet to get a hit under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum.

Evening Standard

Ashes 2023 will serve as a good advertisement for Test cricket

England & Australia battle in Ashes 2023, with the home side emerging victorious 2-2. Both teams displayed different styles of play, with England's Bazball ploy & Aussies' attrition & calculated risks. Controversies & retirements add to the series' legacy, making it one of the most memorable spectacles in cricket history.

The Hindu

Stuart Broad achieved what we’d all like for our careers: a perfect Hollywood ending

Bowing out in style isn’t easy. Michael Jordan and David Beckham were legends but both bungled their retirements, says the writer Oscar Rickett

The Guardian - UK

‘Bazball’ is awesome for Test cricket, Australia were concerned – Michael Hussey

Ben Stokes’ side fought back to square the Ashes series 2-2 after being 2-0 down.

The Independent UK

Stuart Broad says goodbye in style

Stuart Broad's career ends with a fitting climax, helping England level the Ashes at 2-2. His 604 Test wickets, 3662 runs, and scalps in ODIs/T20Is mark him as a great player. He had a head-band, boisterous appeals, snarl, and sledge, plus a doggedness at the batting crease. He often walked…

The Hindu

End of an era for Ashes greats leaving dancefloor after golden summer

This Ashes series was a genuine banger with scant few days of outright dominance and four positive results but a changing of the guard is inevitable

The Guardian - UK

Full marks to Stokes and Cummins — and lessons for India

75 words: England and Australia faced off in the Ashes series, each team embodying a different philosophy. In the end, 2-2 was a fair result, as both teams had to adapt the other's philosophy. England's strike rate of 74 and Australia's 51 showed that a combination of tactics can work…

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The Independent UK

Chris Woakes reveals the gamble that paid off to be named player of the Ashes

Woakes also discussed learning from players who so often kept him out of the England side

The Guardian - UK

England will take optimism after great series but Anderson must make right call

A euphoric Ashes provided fabulous advertisement with the future bright for England despite fears Jimmy Anderson is losing the fight with father time

The Independent UK

Who will make England’s next Ashes squad in 2025-26?

Zak Crawley, Ben Stokes, James Anderson – who will be around for the next Ashes in 2025?

The Guardian - UK

McCullum insists Ashes approach can fire England to greater heights

Brendon McCullum has said that the “tremendous confidence-booster” of seeing their methods pay off against Australia can power England to greater success – including in the next Ashes series in 30 months’ time

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I don’t want it to end – Brendon McCullum relished ‘heavyweight’ Ashes showdown

England and Australia drew 2-2 with the tourists retaining the urn as holders

The Independent UK

Brendon McCullum details how England refined Bazball during ‘heavyweight fight’ of Ashes

McCullum admitted he didn’t want the Ashes to end after the thrilling series finished 2-2

Evening Standard

‘We will live off Ashes energy’: Brendon McCullum backs England to kick on after epic heavyweight fightback

Brendon McCullum believes this summer's Ashes comeback has set the template for England's future and told his players: "We still have so much to achieve".

Evening Standard

Ashes: Bazball evolved and faces more regeneration in India

From the summer that was, to a winter still a world away and a rare lull — with all respect to the Hundred — in cricket's mad schedule that affords us all time to soak in what has just gone.

The Independent UK

The key issues raised by five unforgettable Ashes Tests

England will feel like they have established the upper hand in this rivalry for the first time since 2015.

The Independent UK

Ben Stokes lauds player of the series Chris Woakes after England earn Ashes draw

The 34-year-old was not picked for the first two Tests but breathed fresh life into the contest and inspired the hosts to a 2-2 draw.

The Independent UK

Stuart Broad provides fitting finale to Ashes series for the ages

The retiring Broad, Chris Woakes and Moeen Ali combined to give England a deserved, series-levelling win at the Kia Oval.

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