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Lyon: We’d have won the Ashes 4-0 if I’d been fit

Lyon: We’d have won the Ashes 4-0 if I’d been fit

Nathan Lyon believes Australia would have won the 2023 Ashes series 4-0 if he hadn’t broken down with injury.

  • by Ian Chadband

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‘More time to learn’: Ashes hero drops out of race for UK parliament

‘More time to learn’: Ashes hero drops out of race for UK parliament

After a series of gaffes, former England cricketer Monty Panesar has now said he will no longer contest the seat for parliament one week after announcing his run.

  • by Rob Harris
Ashes hero Monty Panesar wants to be an MP, but he’s already got himself in a spin

Ashes hero Monty Panesar wants to be an MP, but he’s already got himself in a spin

The former England left-arm spinner conducted a series of awkward interviews after declaring he would stand as a candidate at the next general election.

  • by Rob Harris
‘I hate batter’: England legend rails against cricket’s gender-neutral terms

‘I hate batter’: England legend rails against cricket’s gender-neutral terms

BBC correspondent and former England player Jonathan Agnew says “it’s sad” the game now refers to all players as batters.

  • by Jeremy Wilson
Australia’s flaky batters tease but Lyon stings Williamson

Australia’s flaky batters tease but Lyon stings Williamson

Every time the Black Caps threatened to pull back into the Test, it appeared they were merely being cued up for more pain.

  • by Daniel Brettig
Ben Stokes’ Achilles heel: Passive batting against spin makes him a sitting duck
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Ben Stokes’ Achilles heel: Passive batting against spin makes him a sitting duck

Just as Achilles had his heel, it is the one area of his game – his life? – wherein Ben Stokes is not his positive and proactive self: when he starts a Test innings against spin in India.

  • by Scyld Berry
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England are a great chance in next Ashes – Australia are in danger of decline
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England are a great chance in next Ashes – Australia are in danger of decline

The Australians run the risk of becoming a jaded, aged team by the end of next year. You only have to look to 2006/07 to see what the results of that can be.

  • by Michael Vaughan
‘You’ve changed my life’: Marsh fights back tears after Allan Border Medal win

‘You’ve changed my life’: Marsh fights back tears after Allan Border Medal win

Mitchell Marsh’s one-day international dominance in the year Australia won the 50-over World Cup in India lifted him to a popular victory in the Allan Border Medal count.

  • by Daniel Brettig
Let’s get quizzical: 50 questions on the year in sport

Let’s get quizzical: 50 questions on the year in sport

Test your mental muscle or put your mates in the hot seat. It’s time to find out who is the font of knowledge on all things sport in 2023 by taking our 50-question super-quiz.

  • by Greg Dundas and Claire Siracusa
The banana farmer who became Australian cricket captain and hall of famer

The banana farmer who became Australian cricket captain and hall of famer

Lyn Larsen still lives on the banana farm where she grew up, but somewhere along the way, she managed a hall of fame cricket career.

  • by Greg Baum
Cricket’s radio daze: When leather hitting willow was a pencil striking a desk

Cricket’s radio daze: When leather hitting willow was a pencil striking a desk

In the 1930s, “synthetic” cricket broadcasts brought the excitement of Ashes Tests in England into Australian homes for the first time.

  • by Jonathan Drennan