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Ashes: Ponting offers advice to Labuschagne and Head ahead of 2nd Test

Former captain Ricky Ponting has offered technical advice to Australia batters Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head to counter England's bowling attack ahead of the second Ashes Test starting Wednesday at the Lord's. Australia won the opening Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham by two wickets in what was the first match of the new ICC World Test Championship cycle. There were a number of impressive individual performances, but Labuschagne and Head struggled in the Ashes opener. Ponting wants Labuschagne to go back to basics to find success, and has offered one-on-one time to the 28-year-old right-hander. "I'll wait for them to come and ask me. It's not my place, I'm not one of the coaches, I'm just a past player that's sitting back and analysing what a lot of these guys are doing," Ponting said in the ICC Review. "But I would like to catch up with him (Labuschagne) and have a chat about his batting, because I think what I've seen over the last couple of weeks, as far as I'm concerned, I t

Ashes 1st Test, Day 4: England fight hard, Australia need 174 more to win

After losing two sessions on Day 3, the arch-rivals more than made up for it by playing an exciting brand of cricket. At the end of Day 4, Australia were 107/3, needing 174 more to win on the last day

Ashes, 1st Test Day 3: Rain disrupts Bazball; England 28/2, lead by 35

Rain interrupted the proceedings, but not before Boland and Cummins nipped away with the wickets of Crawley and Duckett to leave England reeling at 28/2 in the third innings. English lead is only 35

Ashes: Root Bazballs on Day 1, Khawaja clobbers English bowlers on second

The Ashes is off to a terrific start with the two teams taking turns in dominating proceedings on Days one and two respectively. Here's what happened on the first two days of the first Test

Ashes 2023: Bazball faces its biggest 'Test' against World Champs Australia

Bazball form of Test cricket, promoted by its Test coach Brendon McCullum has won England 11 out of their last 13 games. Its biggest test would be against World Champions Australia

WTC 2023: Australia avoid hurdles, ride smoothly on its road to final

The Australian team missed out on a place in the WTC final last time around. But this time they are in. Here's how they made it to the WTC final 2023

Australia captain Pat Cummins praised Justin Langer, but wanted change

Cummins, who took over as Australia's test captain immediately before the recent Ashes series against England, was heavily criticized by some star ex-players for not publicly endorsing Langer

England's batsmanship has been exposed as embarrassing: Geoffrey Boycott

England's dismal Ashes campaign ended 4-0 in favour of Australia as the tourists crashed to 124 all out from 68/0 on day three of pink-ball Test at Hobart

Ashes, 5th test: England all out for 188, Australia takes 115-run lead

Continuing their domination in the series, Australia bowled out England for 188 in their first innings to take a 115-run lead on the second day of the fifth and final Ashes Test, here on Saturday

5th Test, Day 2: England bowl out Australia for 303 in 1st innings

England bowled out Australia for 303 in their first innings on the second day of the fifth and final Ashes Test, here on Saturday.

Ashes, 4th Test: Tail-enders save the day for Eng as match ends in a draw

England tail-ender Stuart Broad hung on for 35 deliveries on the fifth and final day of the 4th Ashes Test to miraculously draw the game along with Jimmy Anderson to deny Australia a 4-0 series lead

Jonny Bairstow's century highlights ''Pink'' day 3 of 4th Ashes test

A century by Jonny Bairstow and a half-century for Stokes helped England claw its way back to 258-7 after a terrible start to the third day of the fourth Ashes test Friday

Ashes, 4th Test: Anderson, Wood help England claw their way back

James Anderson, Mark Wood, and Stuart Broad all got among the wickets as England struck constantly against Australia on Day 1 of the ongoing fourth Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground

Root says bitterly disappointed with defeat, asks team to play for pride

England Test captain Joe Root has asked his team to play for pride now and conceded it was "bitterly disappointing" to be beaten so badly in the third Ashes Test.

From substitute fielder to World No 1: Labuschagne's rise in Test cricket

In 2014, the then 20-year-old Marnus Labuschagne had a first taste of Test cricket as a substitute fielder at the Gabba during the Border-Gavaskar series Down Under

Ashes 2nd Test: Atherton questions Smith's leadership, England's selection

Former England captain Michael Atherton has questioned Steve Smith's leadership skills and England's team selection, especially Jack Leach's ouster, ahead of the second Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval.

Dominant Australia reaches 221-2 on Day 1 of the 2nd Ashes test

Australia shrugged off the late withdrawal of new skipper Pat Cummins because of coronavirus concerns to dominate England on the opening day of the second Ashes test and reach 221-2 at stumps. Marnus Labuschagne was dropped twice but remained unbeaten on 95 at stumps Thursday after sharing partnerships of 172 with David Warner (95) and 45 with Steve Smith. Smith returned to the Australian captaincy for the first time since the 2018 sandpaper scandal after Cummins was ruled out. He was deemed to be a close contact of a positive COVID-19 case when he dined at a restaurant on the eve of the match. Smith won the toss and just about everything else went Australia's way to start the day-night test. He was unbeaten on 18 after waiting most of the day to bat, with Australia losing just two wickets despite an England attack bolstered by the return of Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad. Wicketkeeper Jos Buttler took a brilliant catch in the first hour to dismiss opener Marcus Harris (3) but th

Ashes: Stuart Broad becomes third England cricketer to play 150 Tests

Fast bowler Stuart Broad on Thursday became the third England cricketer to feature in 150 Tests when he stepped in the field for the second Ashes game against Australia in Adelaide

Root breaks Vaughan's record of most Test runs by England batter in year

England skipper Joe Root on Friday broke the record of former captain Michael Vaughan after smashing most runs in the longest format of the game by an English batter in the calendar year.

Hobart all set to be announced as venue for fifth and final Ashes Test

The Bellerive Oval in Hobart is set to be announced as the venue for the fifth and final Ashes Test, after it beat rivals Melbourne Cricket Ground and Sydney Cricket Ground