The pitch from the two-day Boxing Day Ashes Test in Melbourne is rated as `unsatisfactory` by the International Cricket Council. Read...

The MCG’s seam-friendly Boxing Day Test pitch has been assessed as “unsatisfactory” by the International Cricket Council, breaking the venue’s streak of top ratings. Read...

Few of the players involved in the Boxing Day Test put their body on the line, gesturing, laughing and cursing as they departed as if the surface was unplayable. It was appalling. Read...

England pace bowler Gus Atkinson has joined the tourists` mounting injury toll after being ruled out for the fifth and final Ashes cricket test in Sydney with a hamstring injury. Read...

Doug Bracewell, who inspired a rare test victory against Australia in Hobart in 2011, has called time on an 18-year career after struggling with a rib injury. Read...

Hugh Morris, the former England and Glamorgan batter and England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive, has died at the age of 62. Read...

How can such a small thing matter so much in a game of cricket? Read...

Melbourne Cricket Ground head curator Matthew Page says he was in a “state of shock” during England’s two-day defeat of Australia in the Boxing Day Test. Read...

Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg says the spotlight is on the SCG pitch ahead of the Ashes finale. Read...

The MCG’s embattled pitch curator says he was “very disappointed” as the test lasted just two days and left Cricket Australia with a significant financial shortfall. Read...