England vs India 3rd Test July 27th-31st 2014:

England 7/569dec (Ian Bell 167, Gary Ballance 156, Alastair Cook 95, Jos Buttler 85, B.Kumar 3/101)

India 330 (A Rahane 54, MS Dhoni 50, Jimmy Anderson 5/53)

England 4/205dec (Alastair Cook 70no, Joe Root 56, Ravi Jadeja 3/52)

India 178 (A.Rahane 52no, Moeen Ali 6/67)

England won by 266 Runs

Series is level at 1-all with 2 Tests remaining

Australia has announced there 14 man squad for the ODI Series in Zimbabwe against Zimbabwe & South Africa

1:Michael Clarke (C)
2:George Bailey(VC)
3:Ben Cutting
4:James Faulkner
5:Aaron Finch
6:Brad Haddin
7:Mitchell Johnson
8:Nathan Lyon
9:Mitchell Marsh
10:Glenn Maxwell
11:Kane Richardson
12:Steve Smith
13:Mitchell Starc
14:Shane Watson

England vs India 4th Test August 7th-11th 2014: Stumps Day 1

India 152 (MS Dhoni 71, Stuart Broad 6/25)

England 3/113 (Ian Bell 45no,Varun Aaron 2/26)

England trail by 39 Runs

England vs India 4th Test August 7th-11th 2014: Stumps Day 2

India 152 (MS Dhoni 71, Stuart Broad 6/25)

England 6/237 (Ian Bell 58, Joe Root 48no, B.Kumar 3/47)

England leads by 85 Runs

England vs India 4th Test August 7th-11th 2014

India 152 (MS Dhoni 71, Stuart Broad 6/25)

England 367 (Joe Root 77, Jos Buttler 70, Ian Bell 58, B.Kumar 3/75)

India 161 (Ravi Ashwin 46no, Moeen Ali 4/39)

England won by an Innings and 54 Runs

England leads the 5 Test Series 2-1

How often does any team win by an innings like that?

It's not so rare as you might think. In the 2010/2011 Ashes series in Australia (when England was on a roll and Australia was not doing so well), England secured three innings victories. England had two victories by an innings against India in England in 2011. South Africa won both their Tests against New Zealand by an innings in 2013. New Zealand beat the West Indies by an innings in 2013 at Wellington. I'm sure there are many more recent examples: I simply can’t keep up with the perpetual circus of international cricket today.

The surprising thing to me is that England's main wicket-taker at Old Trafford today was Moeen Ali, a bog-standard off-spinner of the kind that Indian batsmen ought to have learned to play on Indian pitches as soon as they stepped out of their cradles.

Things may change very soon. Until recently, international tours were decreed by the supranational governing body, the International Cricket Council (which I still think of as the Imperial Cricket Conference). Henceforth, however, tours will be a matter for bilateral arrangements between individual countries. So the leading countries will play each other frequently and bring in lots of money to their game, and the countries that are not currently doing well will probably be condemned to perpetual second-class status. So maybe you'll see fewer innings victories at the top level, but then again you will always have inexplicable collapses like India's today.

England vs India 5th Test August 15th-19th 2014: Stumps Day 1

India 148 (MS Dhoni 82, Chris Woakes 3/30)

England 0/62 (Sam Robson 33no, Alastair Cook 24no)

England trail 86 runs

I'll call out an England victory...just because India's team can't seem to count past 150.

India got lucky they were down 9/90 until MS Dhoni put up a fight for India

Joe Root scored more runs on his own than the entire Indian team did in either innings. It was depressing to watch them capitulate so easily.

India was so good in the 2nd test it went all downhill from there England was just too good for the next 3 tests

And he wasn't even out either!

England vs India 1st ODI Match Abandoned without a ball bowled

Today's Schedule

Australia vs South Africa 1st ODI live on Fox Sports 2 at 5:28pm AEST

England vs India 2nd ODI live on Fox Sports Viewers Choice at 7:25pm AEST then he switches to Fox Sports 2 at 1:30am AEST

AEST(Australian Eastern Standard Time)

Today's Schedule August 30th 2014

England vs India 3rd ODI live on Fox Sports Viewers Choice at 7:25pm AEST then he switches to Fox Sports 2 at 11:40pm AEST

AEST(Australian Eastern Standard Time)

I am kicking myself that I went to bed early!!