From what England's captain Alastair Cook described as "rock bottom" less than three weeks ago, his team are suddenly flying high with an unbeatable 2-1 lead over India to take into the final match of the five-Test series, starting at London's Oval on Friday.
Alastair Cook said he has no intention of stepping down as captain after his England side lost the seventh and final match of the One-Day International series against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Alastair Cook said he has no intention of stepping down as captain after his England side lost the seventh and final match of the One-Day International series against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
England's humiliation defeat in Ashes has raised questions about captain Alastair Cook's career in the UK press.
The bitter circumstances under which his England career was cut short notwithstanding, Kevin Pietersen has still not given up hope of playing for the national team, insisting he can revive the beleaguered side. England lost to India by 95 runs in the second Test at Lord's on Monday and extended their woeful run in recent months.
Michael Vaughan has slammed England captain Alastair Cook's "poor tactics" in the ongoing Lord's Test against India and called for the ECB to consider taking the captaincy away from him.
Michael Clarke's touring side will attempt to win the urn on English soil for the first time in 14 years and Alastair Cook's hosts will try to win back the trophy following their crushing 5-0 defeat in the last series Down Under.
England, chasing 455 to pull off the highest successful run chase in Test history, reached 44 for no wicket at the close on a rain-hit fourth day of the second and final match of the series against New Zealand on Monday.
England's new Test captain Joe Root will seek to bolster his leadership skills with big scores and has promised to ensure the side are better prepared to defend the Ashes in Australia than they were on the previous trip.
England aim to avoid a third consecutive series defeat and ease the pressure on captain Alastair Cook when they host India in a five-Test series for the first time since 1959, starting in Nottingham on Wednesday.
Former England coach Andy Flower has launched an impassioned defence of Alastair Cook, describing the under-fire captain as a cricketer who has achieved extraordinary things for his country and still has plenty to offer.
'I think Joe Root is ready to captain England'
Stuart Broad has been backed by captain Alastair Cook to lead the attack in the absence of James Anderson as England try to show they can win a major Test match without their all-time leading wicket-taker.
Relishing a dramatic turnaround of fortunes in the series against India, England captain Alastair Cook has said it was his wife who convinced him not to give up captaincy when his team was on a losing streak.
England captain Alastair Cook was delighted with the turnaround in the series as they came back from Lord's defeat to win three matches in a row.
Images from day one of the fifth and final Test between England and India at the Oval, in London, on Friday.
Joe Root expects Alastair Cook to continue to lead England for "a few years to come" amid rising speculation on the future of the 31-year-old as test captain. The left-handed opening batsman triggered doubts about his captaincy when he told the Cricketer magazine that he did not know "how much longer I am going to carry on. It could be two months, it could be a year".
India's biggest problem on the ongoing tour of England, says Harish Kotian, is the poor run of Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli.
Former India captain Kapil Dev has criticised the team for cropping catches that allowed England's batsmen to take control of the third Test in Southampton.
England captain Alastair Cook was pleased with the way he handled the huge pressure he felt under to make his first significant scores of the year and set his team on their way to a first win in 11 Tests against India on Thursday.
Photos of the third Test between India and England at Southampton
# Alastair Cook's knock of 95 is his first innings in the nervous nineties as Test captain -- his sixth in Tests.
Alastair Cook missed out on his 26th Test century by five just runs on Sunday but the English skipper said even though it was frustrating he was delighted to get out of his prolonged poor form.
Photos of the Day 1 of the third Test between India and England.
Alastair Cook has managed to hold on to England captaincy solely because of 'politics', says maverick batsman Kevin Pietersen and insists that the disaster which the skipper is enduring in the series against India is something that he would not wish even for his worst enemy.
England skipper Alastair Cook is running out of time, excuses and places to hide after Mahendra Singh Dhoni's India became the latest side to expose his weaknesses with a thumping victory at Lord's to open a 1-0 lead in their five-match series.
England captain Alastair Cook admits that should he fail to score runs in the remaining three Tests against India and results do not go his way, he may no longer be the right man to revive the fortunes of his struggling team.
IMAGES from Day 3 of the 1st Test between England and Pakistan played at Lord's on Saturday
'People will have to step up and be prepared to put the hard yards in. Everyone starts on nought now'
Images from the second's day play in the opening Test between England and India at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
England's selectors have yet to decide who will open the batting alongside captain Alastair Cook against Pakistan later this month and will use two warm-up games to choose between Alex Hales or Moeen Ali, coach Trevor Bayliss said on Friday.
Wicketkeeper Matt Prior and struggling batsman Jonathan Trott have lost their central contacts with England, though all-rounder Ben Stokes has been rewarded despite a poor home series against India.
The clamour for his sacking as England's ODI captain has grown shrill after the debacle against India but former coach Ashley Giles feels it is too late to do this as the World Cup is just five months away.
Spinner Zafar Ansari will make his England Test debut in the second and final match against Bangladesh while Stuart Broad is rested as Alastair Cook rotates his side ahead of the tour to India.
England will play three Tests against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates in October and November this year, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday.
A desire for captain Alastair Cook to be able to trust and rely on the support of all his players was behind the decision to end Kevin Pietersen's international career, said the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
Under-pressure Alastair Cook called on his demoralised England team to search their 'souls' after their second straight Ashes Test defeat to Australia on Monday, with the skipper among those conducting the deepest introspection.
England captain Alastair Cook has said that teams have a duty to play the Ashes series in the right spirit.
Japanese brokerage Nomura has said a Narendra Modi-led government will help the rupee jump to 58 against the US dollar and trigger up to a 10 per cent rally in the stock market.
The Ashes series may be reduced to dead rubbers, but Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad proved their England careers remain very much alive on Wednesday as they helped Joe Root's team dominate Australia on day two at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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