Cricket

46 all out and all that

In five seasons as Kent’s overseas player, Carl Hooper produced high art in industrial quantities. Shame he couldn't do it more often

Since 1975, England have picked 13 Test debutants for the last match of an Ashes series. Name them or GTFO.

Dead-rubber wins can taste just as sweet as the real thing - sometimes even sweeter

And you wonder why Australia won 4-1

Ten of Joe Root's best innings

The genesis of England’s glorious 2005 Ashes victory was a 47-minute cameo three years earlier

Edgbaston 2008, and the innings Graeme Smith was born to play

And you wonder why Australia won 4-0