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London, Aug.27 (ANI): England fast bowler Steve Harmison has admitted he may have played his last Ashes Test.

“I’d love to go to Australia. But I would be 32 then and there’s no chance of my body being anywhere near ready to take on Australia again. I’ve been doing this for a long time now. [...]

London, Aug.26 (ANI): Former England Test player Andrew Flintoff believes that Northamptonshire quick Stuart Broad will help the national side to dominate international fixtures more than he did.

Yesterday, just hours before he went into hospital to collect more points on his loyalty card for yet another bout of surgery, Flintoff said his final Test goodbye [...]

London, Aug 25(ANI): England cricketer Graeme Swann, who took the last Australian wicket to clinch the Ashes, has said that he has never experienced anything like the surge of emotion and happiness he felt after winning the Ashes.

Swann said that he would cherish the [...]

London, Aug.24 (ANI): Former England captain Ian Botham has described the Ashes series victory as a perfect pick-me-up for the country as a whole, and he is ready to drink to the dawn of great new era for English cricket.

“This Ashes win has come along to put smiles on the faces of a nation and [...]

London, August 22 (ANI): Pop star Lily Allen has apparently revealed who in the England cricket team she will “shag” or “snog”.

Along with her builder boyfriend Sam Cooper, she picked up a programme at the England versus Oz Ashes’ decider at The Oval.

And alongside the players’ names, the brash singer started scribbling [...]

London, Aug.20 (ANI): With the Ashes up for grabs during the next five days, Australia needs to play positive cricket from ball one tonight to retain the famous little urn, says former leg spinner Shane Warne in an article for the Herald Sun.

“Australia must remain aggressive and try to win the Test match. The Poms, [...]

London, Aug.20 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has hinted strongly that the selectors are likely to keep faith in fast bowler Stuart Clark at the expense of Nathan Hauritz in the final Ashes Test beginning today What we see at the moment is what we expect,” said Ponting who, at 34, will surely be [...]

Sydney, July 16 (ANI): Former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh has declared that opener Phillip Hughes is twice as tough as he was at the same age, as the young Australian continues his gruelling Ashes examination on cricket’s most prestigious stage.

Waugh overcame a weakness against short-pitched bowling early in his career and Hughes faces a [...]

London, July 16 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting became a tour guide for his rookie team at Lords on Wednesday.

Ponting, on his fourth Ashes tour, didn’t have to wear one of the green blazers of officials who guide visitors around the game’s spiritual home.

He took pacer Peter Siddle and spinner Nathan Hauritz, on their [...]

London, July 15 (ANI): Australian opener Phillip Hughes has said that he is eyeing off another showdown with giant England quick Steve Harmison, who has been drafted into the host squad for the second Test, beginning at Lord’s tomorrow.

Harmison twice bounced out Hughes in a tour match at Worcester and England insists the 20-year-old opener [...]

London, July 8(ANI): Australian batsman Simon Katich, who is Phillip Hughes’s captain at New South Wales, has said that he had initially doubted the then 18-year-old’s Hughes talent in 2007

Katich said he and Cricket NSW chief executive David Gilbert had heated arguments over Hughes in 2007, where Katich believed that Hughes was not ready [...]

Perth (Australia), July 6 (ANI): Former Australian opener Justin Langer believes that current opener Phillip Hughes will come up trumps during the Ashes series that gets underway from Wednesday.

Langer has told Hughes to stick to the basics that helped him triumph over South Africa in [...]

Worcester (UK), July 3 (ANI): Fast bowler Steve Harmison has warned that England’s quicks plan to target the body of young Australian batting sensation Phillip Hughes during the Ashes series.

Harmison may not be in the England attack but he was happy to furnish fast-bowling colleagues such as Stuart Broad and James Anderson with information about [...]

Lancashire (UK), June 18  All-rounder Andrew Flintoff believes that the selectors will be making a big mistake if they do not include fast bowler Steve Harmison in the Ashes squad.
Harmison has taken 15 wickets for 132 runs in his last two county championship matches for Durham, and Flintoff said: “He was close to unplayable.”
Harmison stormed [...]

Sydney, May 14 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting believes both Michael Vaughan and Steve Harmison will find a spot in the England squad during the upcoming Ashes series.

Vaughan, who captained England to Ashes glory in 2005, and pace bowler Harmison, who was one of the stars of that series, are currently out of an [...]

London, May 12 (ANI): England fast bowler Stuard Broad aims to join James Anderson and fire England to Ashes glory this summer.

Pace ace Broad is determined to make the most of being handed the new ball in Test cricket.

Fab four Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Andrew Flintoff and Simon Jones fronted the bowling attack [...]

Bridgetown (West Indies), Mar.25 (ANI): England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is looking forward to the second edition of the Indian Premier League to be played in South Africa from April 18.

Though Flintoff is sorry that the IPL will not be staged in India this year, he says [...]

Antigua (West Indies), Feb.12 (ANI): While there has been a hue and cry over England cricket all-rounder Andrew Flintoff and fast bowler Steve Harmison going on a free booze cruise shortly after the team’s humiliating defeat in the Jamaica Test, it turns out that both were given permission to go by none other than skipper [...]

London, Feb.11 (ANI): England cricket stars Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison went on a lavish free booze cruise just hours after England’s humiliating innings and 23 run Test defeat against the West Indies in Sabina Park, Jamaica.

The pair lapped up luxury on a superliner after the West Indies bowled them out for an embarrassing 51. [...]

Jamaica, Feb.8 (ANI): The West Indies handed out a shock innings and 23-run defeat to England in the first Test at Sabina Park on Saturday.

Trailing by 74 runs on the first innings, England collapsed to 51 all out in their second innings, five minutes before the tea break on the penultimate day. It was England’s [...]