Shane Watson has featured in two losing Ashes series and a failed World Cup defence, but he believes his toughest challenge in Australia’s team is coming up`

In Cardiff, on Thursday, England play their first Test since the Ashes but Andrew Strauss says the team can’t afford to look back at past successes

Australia’s selectors are not yet prepared to give up on Ben Hilfenhaus following an inglorious Ashes summer.

Having more or less been in stasis since he completed his starring role in the Ashes back in January, Alastair Cook is back at the County Ground in Essex, and gagging to get stuck into Friday’s first round of the County Championship

Ricky Ponting is aware he will forever be known to many as the Australian captain who lost three Ashes series. And he is happy enough to live with that

Headingley will not host an Ashes Test in 2013 or 2015 after Yorkshire chairman and chief executive, Colin Graves, said it would represent too great a financial risk

The Ashes were sealed with a pair of thumping victories at Melbourne and Sydney, but thereafter the tour descended into tedium and acrimony

Michael Clarke has praised his players for their sudden turnaround following the Ashes after their comprehensive win over England at the Gabba secured an unassailable 4-1 lead

England and Australia will play each other in ten consecutive Tests across two series home and away in 2013-14, after it was confirmed by Cricket Australia that the dates of the next Ashes series Down Under have been brought forward by a year

Chris Tremlett has been rewarded for his role in England’s victorious Ashes campaign, with the ECB choosing to offer him an incremental contract for the remainder of the 2011 season