Mail Sport introduces the kids of the England 2005 team that are ready to build their own golden generation.

Cricket great Michael Clarke and his glamorous girlfriend Arabella Sherborne dined at one of Sydney's trendiest restaurants on Thursday as they celebrated a very memorable occasion.

RICHARD GIBSON IN KOLKATA: Reigning world champions India revelled in their home conditions, romping into a 1-0 Twenty20 series lead after winning the toss.

Mail Sport examines the main areas of focus for a team that has lost 13 of its most recent 24 Twenty20s against major nations and 12 of its last 20 50-over internationals.

Former Aussie hockey star turned media identity Georgie Parker compared the late Shane Warne to current women's leg-spinner Alana King - and some cricket fans were having none of it.

LAWRENCE BOOTH: Which is why all it took for Fox Sports to declare 'Poms in Bizarre Meltdown over Konstas' was a lone remark by Barney Ronay in The Guardian.

RICHARD GIBSON IN KOLKATA: Brendon McCullum has vowed that England's pace bowlers will remain at full throttle in 2025 - and there will be no cotton-wool treatment with the Ashes in mind.

RICHARD GIBSON: Such has been the impact of Brydon Carse on the international scene over the past few months that Durham are not expecting to see him in 2025.

EXCLUSIVE BY RICHARD GIBSON: As head coach of Essex, McGrath oversaw a Championship and Vitality Blast double in 2019 and won the Bob Willis Trophy the following summer.

EXCLUSIVE: England's Saqib Mahmood has finally been granted his visa for their tour to India which begins next week and will be able to board the same flight as his teammates.

Aussie cricket fans went wild for the 19-year-old opening batter when he took it up to India in the recent Test series - but one cricket tragic took things a bit too far recently.