Ollie Pope has asked Joe Root for guidance on how best to balance the demands of batting and captaincy after an awkward first outing as stand-in England skipper against Sri Lanka. Pope ...

Ollie Pope put questions over his recent run of form to bed with a century at his home ground the Oval to steer England to a dominant position of 221 for three against Sri Lanka after the first ...

the story was all but written after Sri Lanka capitalised on Pope’s hyper-aggressive field placements in the evening of the third day, and England’s reckless batting. “Disappointing not to ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. England captain Ollie Pope admitted his side “shot ourselves in the foot” as wayward batting at the Kia Oval saw a triumphant Test summer end in ...

Ollie Pope has sought out the advice of Joe Root after admitting the demands of being stand-in England captain had crept into his batting against Sri Lanka. In the first of three outings ...

England had won all five of their Tests this summer - three against West Indies and two against Sri Lanka - heading into the series finale at Kia Oval and looked well set to make it six out of six ...

It has been an interesting tale of two halves for England's stand-in Test skipper Ollie Pope as their home Test summer against the West Indies and Sri Lanka nears its conclusion. The division of ...

Pope, who is the stand-in captain for England in the three-match series against Sri Lanka in the absence of regular skipper Ben Stokes, is under scrutiny for his poor batting show in the series.

With one more match to play in the three-Test series the side, captained by Ollie Pope, are now 2-0 ahead ... innings became ...

The Ollie Pope-led England squad was criticized by former ... Vaughan voiced dissatisfaction with their field placements as well as their batting plan, accusing the squad of deploying techniques ...

Stand-in captain Ollie Pope has defended England’s careless batting display in their Third Test defeat to Sri Lanka, insisting a “lack of hunger” was not to blame for the twin collapses that ...