Pacemen Steve Harmison and Stuart Broad have been recalled to the England side for the final Test against South Africa at The Oval, starting on Thursday. Ryan Sidebottom and Ravi Bopara have been left out as England seek to restore pride in Kevin Pietersen’s first match as Test captain.
England will bank on five batsmen with [...]

A tearful Michael Vaughan has resigned as England Test captain after five years, saying it was both the hardest and the easiest decision he had made.
Vaughan added: “I’ve put my heart and soul into the job but my head is telling me to pack it in.”
He confirmed he would not play in the final Test [...]

Kevin Pietersen has been named England’s captain for the final match of their one-day series after Paul Collingwood was banned for four ODIs.
Collingwood was found guilty of Level 3 ICC Code of Conduct breach following his side’s failure to bowl their overs in the required time during their dramatic one-wicket defeat against New Zealand at [...]

Kevin Pietersen will be allowed to carry on playing his extraordinary ‘reverse slog-sweep’ after MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), cricket’s rule-makers, announced they would not be outlawing the ’switch-hit’.
“MCC believes that the ’switch-hit’ stroke is exciting for the game of cricket,” said a statement issued by MCC following a meeting at it’s Lord’s headquarters in London [...]

The MCC, the guardians of cricket’s laws, will discuss the legality of the shots played by Kevin Pietersen during the first ODI against New Zealand at Chester-le-Street when they meet at Lord’s on Tuesday. In the course of his match-winning century, Pietersen twice switched his grip and stance to hit Scott Styris for six, essentially [...]

Kevin Pietersen’s unbeaten 110 helped England thrash New Zealand by 114 runs in the first One-Day International at the Riverside on Sunday.The 27-year-old faced 113 balls with three sixes - two of them outrageous reverse sweeps off medium-pacer Scott Styris - and eight fours.Together with England One-day captain Paul Collingwood, who made a run-a-ball 64 [...]