Darren Gough is a retired English cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s,he is England's second highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 235,and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches,making him England's ninth-most-successful wicket-taker.
Michael Paul Vaughan is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer who played all forms of the game. He served as England captain for the test team from 2003 to 2008,the one-day international team from 2003 to 2007,and was the first Twenty20 England captain from 2005 to 2007. He represented Yorkshire in the domestic arena.
Ashley Fraser Giles is a former English first-class cricketer,who played 54 Test matches and 62 One Day Internationals for England before being forced to retire due to a recurring hip injury. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire County Cricket Club.
Simon Philip Jones is a Welsh former cricketer,and data analytics head. He played international cricket for England,and county cricket for Glamorgan,Worcestershire and Hampshire,before retiring in 2013. His father,Jeff Jones,played cricket for Glamorgan and England in the 1960s.
There were seven Test matches played in England in 2005. The first two were against Bangladesh,the bottom-ranked test team. England started this series ranked second in the LG ICC Test Championship table.
Christopher Timothy Tremlett is a former English cricketer who played international cricket for England and domestically for Hampshire and Surrey. He was a 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall fast-medium bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. Tremlett started his playing career with Hampshire in 2000 and was awarded his county cap in 2004. He made his One Day International debut in 2005,and two years later played his first Test. Tremlett played three Tests in 2007 before injury interrupted.
The 2005 Ashes series was that year's edition of the long-standing cricket rivalry between England and Australia. Starting on 21 July 2005,England and Australia played five Tests,with the Ashes held by Australia as the most recent victors. The final result was a 2–1 series win for England,who succeeded in their biennial attempt to win the urn.
Graham Douglas McKenzie –commonly known as "Garth",after the comic strip hero –is an Australian cricketer who played for Western Australia (1960–74),Leicestershire (1969–75),Transvaal (1979–80) and Australia (1961–71) and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1965. He succeeded Alan Davidson as Australia's premier fast bowler and was in turn succeeded by Dennis Lillee,playing with both at either end of his career. McKenzie was particularly noted for his muscular physique and ability to take wickets on good batting tracks. His father Eric McKenzie and uncle Douglas McKenzie played cricket for Western Australia. Garth was chosen for the Ashes tour of England in 1961 aged only 20. He made his debut in the Second Test at Lord's,where his 5/37 wrapped up the England innings to give Australia a 5-wicket victory.
Katherine Helen Sciver-Brunt is an English former cricketer who played as a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed lower-order batter. She played for England between 2004 and 2023,appearing in 14 Test matches,141 One Day Internationals and 112 Twenty20 Internationals. She won two World Cups and one T20 World Cup,and was named England women's Cricketer of the Year four times. She played domestic cricket for Yorkshire,Yorkshire Diamonds,Northern Diamonds,Trent Rockets,Perth Scorchers and Melbourne Stars.
Christopher Eric Wilfred Silverwood is a former international cricketer and the Current Head Coach of the Sri Lanka Cricket Team. He has also been a Former Coach of England Cricket Team
Ryan Jay Sidebottom is a former England international cricketer who played domestic cricket for Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire and retired in 2017,after taking more than 1,000 career wickets. He is the only player in the last 15 years to win 5 county championships and also won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 with England.
Timothy Thomas Bresnan is an English former first-class cricketer,who last played for Warwickshire. He played as a fast-medium bowler who had ability with the bat. He was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.
The 2006–07 cricket series between Australia and England for The Ashes was played in Australia from 23 November 2006 to 5 January 2007. Australia won the series and regained the Ashes that had been lost to England in the 2005 series. The five Tests of the series were played at Brisbane,Adelaide,Perth,Melbourne and Sydney. In winning,Australia completed a 5–0 "whitewash",the first time this had happened in an Ashes series since 1920–21. The series was also notable for the retirement of four significant Australian players,namely Justin Langer,Damien Martyn,Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. Ricky Ponting was named Player of the Series.
David James Millns is a first class cricket umpire and English former professional cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club,Leicestershire County Cricket Club,Tasmania and Boland. Millns was a fast bowler,and a lower order batsman who was part of two championship winning sides with Leicestershire,in 1996 and 1998.
Azeem Rafiq is an English cricketer who played professionally in England for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A right-arm off-spin bowler,Rafiq played for the county between 2008 and 2014 and 2016 and 2018,making his senior debut at the age of 17. He captained the England under-15 and under-19 sides,and in 2012 became the youngest man to captain a Yorkshire side as well as the first person of Asian origin to do so.
Oliver Edward Robinson is an English professional cricketer who plays internationally for the England Test cricket team. In domestic cricket,he represents Sussex,having previously played for Yorkshire and Hampshire. He made his Test debut in 2021,and plays as a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
The West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy,one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs).
The 2020 Bob Willis Trophy was a first-class cricket tournament held in the 2020 English cricket season,and the inaugural edition of the Bob Willis Trophy. It was separate from the County Championship,which was not held in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. The eighteen county cricket teams were split into three regional groups of six,with the two group winners with the most points advancing to a final held at Lord's. The maximum number of overs bowled in a day was reduced from 96 to 90,and the team's first innings could be no longer than 120 overs.
The New Zealand cricket team toured England in June 2022 to play three Test matches,with the matches forming part of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship. England also played three One Day International (ODI) matches against the Netherlands in Amstelveen between the second and third Tests.
The South Africa cricket team toured England from July to September 2022 to play three Test matches,three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The Test matches formed part of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship. In addition to the matches against England,South Africa had also played two T20I matches against the Ireland cricket team in Bristol.
