England fail to shine in the gloom
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The Birmingham weather and a sloppy batting display from England failed to give the ICC Champions&#39; Trophy the spectacular start the tournament organisers were looking for.
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England made slow progress towards a seventh successive test win with West Indies 274 for six on day three of the fourth test at the Oval on Saturday.
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Andrew Flintoff scored 104 as England advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy yesterday with a 49-run win over Sri Lanka, the match a victim of persistent rain at the Rose Bowl.
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Peter Crouch and his England teammates spent most of the game missing chances in front of the net. With the time ticking away and England only minutes from a shocking draw against tiny Trinidad and Tobago, Crouch made the best of his last opportunity.
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Heavy rain stops play with England 102-1 on day four, needing 418 to avoid an innings defeat.
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England&#39;s performance against minnows the United States in their opening Rugby World Cup game was lambasted by British newspapers Sunday as &quot;diabolical&quot; and &quot;appallingly poor.&quot;
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England kept up their charge for automatic World Cup qualification with a workman-like 1-0 victory over Azerbaijan in some appalling conditions.
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England fans trudged home from Paris on Sunday after their team's defeat in the rugby World Cup final, bitterly disappointed but with heads held high after a widely-praised England display.
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England reach 77-2 in their second innings, 174 ahead, after a rain-affected third day of the first Test against India at Lord's.
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MICHAEL VAUGHAN leads England into the Champions Trophy today in front of a near empty Edgbaston against a joke team who lost to the United States.
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Vienna: England&#39;s soccer World Cup qualifying campaign got off to a miserable start on Saturday when it squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Austria in Group Six.
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WAYNE Rooney was fortunate to escape a red card last night as England were beaten 1-0 by Spain in an ill-tempered friendly in Madrid.
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England's lack of match practice was exposed when they made a shaky start to their only first-class game before a five-Test series against South Africa.
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Despite having won 10 out of 11 tests so far this year, England are still a long way from being the best team in the world. Arch-rivals Australia hold sway at the
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England close 411-8 on a rain-hit second day of the fourth Test with South Africa.
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One of the marks of a great player is the ability to produce when it matters. This was England&#39;s most important one-day game of the season.
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Whether they care to admit it or not, this was the contest England had yearned for all summer. It was a measure of the team&#39;s recent advance that they had become tired of pounding West Indies