England’s Ashes squad not available to media ahead of new county season The domestic season gets under way on April 3. The Independent UK · Mar 12
Brendon McCullum poised to stay on as ECB backs England head coach The head coach is expected to survive a review triggered by England’s Ashes defeat, as will Rob Key, the managing director of men’s cricket The Guardian - UK · Mar 6
Moeen Ali learning from Andrew Flintoff in bid to one day be England head coach Flintoff is overseeing the second-string Lions’ white-ball tour against Pakistan Shaheens. The Independent UK · Feb 18
England vs West Indies prediction: T20 World Cup betting tips and odds Jonathan Doidge takes a look at who will come out on top as the two favourites to win Group C collide in Mumbai The Independent UK · Feb 11
Ben Stokes undergoes surgery after suffering gruesome facial injury The 34-year-old suffered a gruesome facial injury after being struck by a cricket ball The Independent UK · Feb 10
Sam Curran driven by memories of Ben Stokes meltdown in key final over Curran defended 10 in the last six balls as England avoided a humiliating loss to Nepal. The Independent UK · Feb 8
Ben Stokes suffers gruesome facial injury after being struck by a ball The 34-year-old returned to England last month following a dismal Ashes tour that saw Australia pick up a convincing 4-1 series victory The Independent UK · Feb 5
Are England missing a trick by not taking Joe Root to the T20 World Cup? Nerveless batter is a master of building an innings on spinning wickets and his form suggests he could have prospered in India and Sri Lanka The Guardian - UK · Jan 28
Ben Stokes set for new England coaching role during injury rehabilitation in UAE The 34-year-old all-rounder is continuing his recovery from injury on the recent Ashes tour of Australia The Independent UK · Jan 28
England spinner Shoaib Bashir finds new county after Ashes snub Bashir did not feature in a single Test as England were beaten 4-1 in Australia The Independent UK · Jan 15
Ashes calamity has trashed McCullum’s credibility. It’s time to call on Alec Stewart England’s best performances came when the players didn’t follow the coach’s rhetoric and that highlights the problem with his one-dimensional approach The Guardian - UK · Jan 11
Ashes 2025-26: our writers’ end-of-series England v Australia awards Brainless moments, moral victories and tough lessons were abundant during a series that still provided plenty of drama The Guardian - UK · Jan 10
Brendon McCullum to continue as England head coach ahead of T20 World Cup Major decisions expected to be made following the tournament Evening Standard · Jan 9
The Independent UK · Jan 9 Brendon McCullum holds talks on England future and ‘keen to carry on’ The head coach’s position is under scrutiny as the ECB reviews a dismal Ashes defeat.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 9 Brendon McCullum keen to carry on with England but wants to ‘steer the ship’ Head coach Brendon McCullum says he may not be able to continue in the Test role if his wings were clipped or his ethos compromised
Evening Standard · Jan 9 Ben Stokes ready to deliver some hard truths in England's Ashes post-mortem The England captain admits that the ‘Bazball’ approach has not been working
The Guardian - AU · Jan 9 Five Ashes charts: the numbers that show how Australia got the better of England From Ben Stokes’s drastically reduced strike rate to Mitchell Starc’s imperious bowling figures, the statistics from the series tell their own story
The Guardian - UK · Jan 8 Sack the vibe: goodbye Bazball and hello England’s search for a cricketing soul There have to be consequences for Rob Key and Brendon McCullum but English cricket’s problems lie much deeper and will be much harder to fix
AAP · Jan 8 Stokes concedes other teams are decoding Bazball Ben Stokes has pledged to fight for "very, very, very good coach" Brendon McCullum as other teams begin to decode his 'Bazball' tactics.
The Independent UK · Jan 8 Kevin Pietersen calls for six England changes after miserable Ashes defeat England slumped to a heavy 4-1 Ashes series defeat with the ECB set to ‘review’ a difficult tour
The Guardian - UK · Jan 8 England’s Ashes humbling was more a series of letdowns than ‘series of our lives’ They landed in Perth expecting to challenge Australia but after a 4-1 defeat and more off-field revelations, the laid-back approach of McCullum’s regime is in the ECB’s sights
The Independent UK · Jan 8 Taking a closer statistical look at where the Ashes urn was lost for England Jacob Bethell’s brilliant 154 in Sydney lifted him to the top of England’s batting averages.
The Independent UK · Jan 8 Former England players criticise Ben Stokes’ captaincy and Bazball ‘cult’ after Ashes thrashing by Australia England arrived in Perth in November with big ambitions of a rare Ashes win on Australian soil but were outplayed for most of the five Test matches and leave empty handed
The Guardian - UK · Jan 8 Ashes review launched by ECB as Stokes gives full backing to under-fire McCullum Ben Stokes has backed Brendon McCullum’s continuation as head coach despite England’s 4-1 Ashes thrashing in Australia