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England are set to end their marathon year on a low after collapsing in dismal fashion on the second afternoon of the third Test against New Zealand.At 77 for two in reply to the hosts' 347, they were in the game. But a pair of…

It all seemed to happen in slow motion – and it was the moment England began to wonder whether the first day of the third Test might be turning in their favour.At the ground he calls home, Kane Williamson had moved ominously to 44…

Atkinson added a Test hat-trick to his list of accolades at international levelHe has settled well into side and became the 14th England player to achieve featEngland were already on top going into the second day of the…

Bazballby Lawrence Booth and Nick Hoult  (Bloomsbury £22, 352pp)England cricket has its ups and downs — the latest down being a World Cup campaign of more than averagely catastrophic dimensions. But here’s a book about an unmistakable…

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Steve Smith narrowly escapes sensational run out from England's substitute fielder... before being brilliantly caught by Jonny BairstowSteve Smith was given a narrow reprieve after it seemed he had been run outSub George…

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TOP SPIN AT THE TEST: Joe Root became the second England player to reach 30 Test centuries after Sir Alastair Cook... and it was the first time Jimmy Anderson wasn't handed the new ball since 2009Joe Root's 118* took England…

It does not get any more emphatic than this. There can have been few more one-sided games in the long history of Test cricket. England have simply destroyed Ireland.Such has been England’s brutal superiority at Lord’s that the benefits…