IMAGES from Day 3 of the opening Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's on Saturday.
Labuschagne has regained the No. 1 position after Root overtook him in mid-June with successive centuries against New Zealand.
'We realise we haven't been good enough across all facets of the game. The boys want to win, we want to win the series too.'
'They could have batted England out of this contest'
Formula One and the championship-leading Red Bull team mourned the death of the energy drink company's Austrian founder Dietrich Mateschitz on Saturday at the age of 78.
'If we had got a few more runs it might have helped our bowlers out a lot more. At the moment we are probably behind the game but there is plenty of time to fight back with our bowling line-up.'
Play on day three of the first Test match between England and New Zealand at Lord's in London was abandoned due to rain on Friday without a ball being bowled.
Zak Crawley and Jos Buttler shared a record partnership and James Anderson grabbed three wickets to put England in total control at the close on the second day of the third and final Test against Pakistan on Saturday. Images from Day 2 of the third and final Test.
IMAGES from Day 1 of the 3rd Ashes Test played in Melbourne on Sunday.
Batsman Harry Brook and seamer Matthew Potts received maiden call-ups as part of the 13-man squad announced on Wednesday.
Sandhu is excited at the prospect of playing alongside Zaheer Khan.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the rescheduled 5th Test between England and India at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Saturday.
IMAGES from Day 1 of the 1st Test played between England and South Africa at Lord's on Wednesday.
Pope took part in the team's training sessions here over the past two days after the end of the quarantine period.
Denly, who made his Test debut against West Indies last year, has reached double figures 24 times in 28 innings but has managed just six half-centuries.
Images from Day 2 of the 2nd Test between England and New Zealand played at Edgbaston on Friday
Images from Day 5 of the second Test between England and Pakistan at the Rose Bowl, in Southampton, on Monday
India need a draw in the final Test, also in Ahmedabad from March 4, to reach the WTC final against New Zealand.
Anderson became the leading wicket-taker among pace bowlers across all formats
Coloured seating at the newly-built Motera stadium could make the job of the fielders a little bit harder in terms of citing the pink ball in the day-night Test.
England's all-time leading Test wicket takers James Anderson and Stuart Broad have been dropped for the three-Test tour against West Indies.
England batsman Zak Crawley had a nagging feeling early in his innings that a hundred was on the cards before he powered on to realise his dream of a first Test century with a sparkling unbeaten 171 against Pakistan at the Rose Bowl on Friday.
Seamer Ollie Robinson took 5/49 as England skittled South Africa out for 118 on the third day of the third Test at The Oval on Saturday, before grinding their way to 154/7 in reply, a lead of 36 runs.
Scott Boland will become the first indigenous Australian Test player since Jason Gillespie played his last match in 2006 when he receives his baggy green cap on Sunday.
Warwickshire captain Will Rhodes will lead the County Select XI to play India at the Emirates Riverside in Durham.
India's Test specialist Hanuma Vihari had a forgettable English county debut for Warwickshire, failing to trouble the scorers against Nottinghamshire.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the 2nd Test between England and New Zealand played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Saturday.
Johnny Bairstow scored England's first century of the series as the tourists staged a fightback after a torrid start to the third day of the fourth Ashes Test on Friday, but Australia remained in command with a lead of 158 at the close of play.
IMAGES from Day 1 of the 2nd Test played between England and New Zealand at Trent Bridge on Friday.
Chasing 164 to win, opener Zak Crawley was dismissed in the second session before Dom Sibley and Jos Buttler took the hosts to victory.
India, who are 2-1 up in the four-Test series, were 24-1 at stumps and will be confident against a spin-heavy England attack with James Anderson as the lone frontline seamer.
Images from Day 5 of the 1st Test between England and New Zealand played at Lord's on Sunday.
Rishabh Pant smashed a blistering 146 and forged a 222-run stand with Ravindra Jadeja to drag India back into the contest in the rescheduled fifth Test against England in Edgbaston on Friday.
IMAGES from Day 1 of the rescheduled 5th Test between England and India at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Friday.
After stumps on Day 1, the England captain Joe Root and coach Chris Silverwood spoke to the match referee calling for 'consistency in the process'.
England have dropped out-of-form opener Dom Sibley and brought in Dawid Malan for the third Test against India at Headingley, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on Wednesday.
Jonny Bairstow led England to within 40 runs of South Africa's first innings total, with seven wickets in hand, on the first day of the second Test at Old Trafford on Thursday.
Images from Day 3 of the 2nd Test between England and New Zealand played at Edgbaston on Saturday
Quizzed whether batting will be easier in the final Test as it will be a red ball game again, he answered in affirmative.
Wood was also given a break after the series in the island nation where he went wicket-less in the first Test and took three wickets in the second.
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