UK view: Urn as good as gone

Battle Lines Drawn for the Ashes Australia's cricket team captain Michael Clarke (R) holds a replica Ashes urn with England's team captain Alastair Cook at the Gabba cricket ground in Brisbane November 20, 2013. England and Australia will play for ...

As surely as day ebbs into night, so England's grasp on the Ashes urn is loosening by the session. Yes, England are only one down with three-and-a-half Tests to play and, yes, they have earned through their achievements the respect not to be ...

The series is only six days old and England is under immense pressure to retain the Ashes. Australia's team, littered with all-time greats, took only 15 days to reclaim the urn in 2006 and Michael Clarke's comparably modest bunch is on track to ...

THIS Ashes series appears to be as much a pursuit for moral high ground as a certain terracotta urn. Read our

HISTORY tells us England's stranglehold on the little urn will soon be broken. A Gabba win bodes well for an

A Quebec family says they are devastated after discovering their mother's ashes were mistakenly buried in a Montreal grave following her death in late 2004. Marie Priscille Frenette Riendeau died on Nov. 19, 2004 at age 84. The Canadian Air Force ...

It's that time again: the time when real cricket enthusiasts stand out from the crowd, the time when concentration lapses during daylight hours are common, when the day could be any day and the time could be any time. It's time once again to go ...

The second leg of an Ashes double-header unique in the 131 years of such contests gets underway in Brisbane on Thursday with everything bar the eternal optimism of the Australian nation pointing to a fourth successive England triumph. With the dominant 3-0 ...

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has said he believes that the current England team might be past their absolute peak, adding that Australia can belie their status as Ashes outsiders by regaining the urn in the winter series.The Australians ...