Cricket: Rob Key has said the much-criticised Indian Premier League has improved England's chances of winning the World Twenty20 on home soil next month... more
Cricket: Surrey and Middlesex square up in the LV County Championship at The Brit Oval, each desperate for their first win of the season before a month-long break for one-day action... more
Cricket: Paul Collingwood has been given the task of turning England’s Twenty20 fortunes around after being convinced to return to the captaincy by new coach Andy Flower... more
Cricket: Kevin Pietersen will have the chance to prove he can be a successful captain when he leads the Bangalore Royal Challengers on his Indian Premier League debut against Rajasthan Royals in Cape Town... more
They could yet appear for England as a package. But the double act of Rob Key and Joe Denly will happily settle for lighting up Lord's and making life miserable again for old rivals Essex... more
England's cricketers are struggling to avoid a first defeat in seven Tests. But their selectors have already lost, or at least mislaid, the Midas touch with the recruitment of Darren Pattinson capping a bad few weeks... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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