Jonathan Liew | The Independent

Jonathan Liew

Jonathan Liew is the Chief Sports Writer of The Independent. In February 2019 he was named sports columnist of the year by the Sports Journalists' Association.

Live Live

Stokes completes miracle comeback as England defeat Australia

Follow LIVE reaction from an astonishing day of Test cricket

Ashes

Australia’s magnificent bowling attack grinds away at England’s hopes

England (67 & 156-3) need 203 more runs to beat Australia (179 & 246)

Live Live

Root’s fighting fifty keeps England’s faint Ashes hopes alive

Ashes

England’s Ashes hopes all but over – & there are even greater problems

The sadness of Naomi Osaka and the questions we should ask about it

Archer ‘over the moon’ with crucial Ashes six-wicket haul

Archer derails Australia to keep Ashes quest judderingly on course

Ashes

This knife-edge Ashes reaches Headingley where indecision is final

Ashes series stirs to life as Australia cling on to draw

Archer’s talent is unquestionable but can England get best out of him?

Fantasy football and the desperate search for the game we lost

Ashes

As Lord’s shimmered red, Strauss showed sport’s most powerful side

Ashes

England head to Lord’s looking to find form and themselves

Two years into his captaincy, it’s still impossible to say what Root’s England actually represent

Live Live

Australia thrash England to go one up in Ashes series

Here's how final day of the first Test played out

Australia tear down the fortress to leave witless England in a spin

England set to resume battle to save first Test against Australia

England fight for survival as Australia take first Test stranglehold

Ashes

England discover the maddening puzzle of getting Smith out

Centurion Burns soaks up acclaim as England take upper-hand

Bale, Madrid and the Big Nonsense of Big Football

Ashes

Smith’s dreams come to life as genius display halts England

The rise, fall and rise again of Ben Stokes

Can stadiums still serve the public good in this new footballing age?

England avoid catastrophe against Ireland but questions remain

Burns on England vs Ireland, the World Cup and the Ashes

Ben Stokes, that deflection and the question of what is luck in sport?

Roy earns first Test call-up as Archer, Stokes and Buttler rested

Labuschagne on how Christianity has provided perspective on cricket

Latest batting collapse leaves England on the ropes against Ireland

England capitulate as familiar batting woes come back to haunt them

England are world champions after World Cup final finish for the ages

The miracle of New Zealand’s Cricket World Cup

Waugh on England, Morgan and captaincy in cricket's biggest game

Fearless England close on their cricketing bliss

New Zealand shred logic as India handed one of oldest lessons in sport

Williamson keeps New Zealand alive as India semi-final delayed by rain

How do you solve a problem like Kyrgios? Maybe we don't have to

England scrape into World Cup semi-finals by length of a fingernail

Roger Federer, Lloyd Harris and how to kill your heroes

Van Avermaet on his Belgian burden and wearing the yellow jersey

World

Maradona film: ‘We found half the footage in a trunk in Buenos Aires’

World

Welcome to the Neymar show, 24-hour reality TV with only one star

Bumrah’s impossible unorthodoxy helps India see off South Africa

Morgan delivers bruising critique of England's fielding after defeat

England stripped of their aura after stunning defeat by Pakistan

The awful Champions League final which defied engineered entertainment

Spurs or Liverpool? We predict who will win the Champions League final

Jurgen Klopp: ‘Life is a present. We have to have fun with it’

Roy: England victory rooted in best fielding display in four years

Carroll and the existential threat to the one-man wrecking ball

Stokes stars as England beat South Africa in World Cup opener

Stokes plays down remarkable one-handed catch

Tottenham training ‘like animals’ ahead of Champions League final

How Morgan’s England can recapture nation’s imagination

Kane: I’m ready to return for Spurs in Champions League final

Mkhitaryan, Baku and why sport and politics cannot be separated

Root: I was trying to be somebody that I was not

Morgan on England's voyage of discovery and maturity to the World Cup

England select rich and diverse squad to try and conquer the world

England confirm 2019 Cricket World Cup squad

England to announce World Cup squad from position of immense strength

Twenty things we learned this season, from Hazard to schadenfreude

Partisan pundits are taking over football on TV - does it matter?

FA & League Cups

Kiko Femenia: 'The secret is to be together - it's only one game'

Brilliant England beat Pakistan and march full pelt towards World Cup

Premier League awards: Team of the season, best player and key moments

After glorious failure, Liverpool wonder what more can be done

Klopp vows to 'go again' after Man City pip Liverpool to the title

The real problem with the new Champions League proposals

Pochettino’s misfit adoration carries Spurs to Champions League final

An Anfield miracle transcribed from the pages of pure fantasy

Moura hat-trick sends heroic Spurs on adventure of their lives