England

The ground at St Johns Wood in London is the spiritual home of cricket, with the famous slope running across the outfield. It host...

The Oval in Kennington is the Surrey home and hosted the first Test on English soil in September 1880, won by England over Austral...

The Manchester ground is famous for humid swing conditions and the sight of the ball hooping in cloud cover. Shane Warne delivered...

Headingley has staged two of the greatest Ashes comebacks. Ian Botham scored 149 not out and Bob Willis took 8 for 43 to win the 1...

Edgbaston in Birmingham hosted the 2005 Ashes Test England won by two runs, the closest and most celebrated of that famous series....

Trent Bridge is a bowlers paradise when clouds gather over the Trent. Stuart Broad took 8 for 15 as Australia collapsed to 60 all ...

William Gilbert Grace dominated the infancy of the game, scoring over 54,000 first class runs with 126 centuries across the Victor...

Hobbs, the Master, opened for England into his 40s and finished with 61,760 first class runs and 199 centuries, both all time reco...

Barnes bowled medium pace off cutters and devastating swing with a rare genius, taking 189 Test wickets at 16.43 from only 27 matc...

Hutton made 364 in 1938, then the highest Test score, at 22 years of age. A war injury left his left arm shorter, yet he remade hi...

Botham produced the greatest one man series in Ashes history in 1981, scoring 149 not out at Headingley as Bob Willis bowled Engla...

The Burnley Express bowled swing at its most relentless for two decades, taking 704 Test wickets, the only pacer beyond 700. He pl...

Cook scored a century on debut at Nagpur in 2006 and played 161 consecutive Tests, a record of durability. He made 33 Test centuri...

Bakewell scored 118 in the 1973 inaugural womens World Cup final against Australia at Edgbaston, a match England won. She complete...

Hammond was the dominant English batsman of the 1930s, a commanding driver through the off side and a superb slip fielder. His 336...

Fiery Fred from Yorkshire was the fast bowling spearhead of England through the 1950s and early 1960s. At the Oval in 1964 he beca...

Edwards debuted for England at 16 and became one of the leading run scorers in womens international cricket. As captain she led En...