Moeen Ali has played 64 Tests for England, taking 195 wickets and scoring 2,914 runs.

Warne, making his Ashes debut at Manchester's Old Trafford ground, saw his first ball pitch outside leg-stump and then spin viciously across bemused England batsman Gatting to clip the top of the off-bail.

The abolition of toss became a contentious issue as most of the former players and stakeholders termed it a negative step.

Phillip Hughes fell unconscious after being hit on the head by a bouncer during a Sheffield Shield game in Australia. After being in coma for three days, Hughes, 25, lost his battle with life on Thursday.

Despite losing the recent Ashes series in England by a convincing 3-0 margin, the Australia camp have been in bullish mood ahead of the return campaign which starts with the first Test in Brisbane in November.

This year, unusually, sees back to back Ashes series with a five-match contest in England starting at Nottingham's Trent Bridge ground on Wednesday followed by a return campaign in Australia.

England dodged the showers to take the four wickets they needed on Tuesday's final day as they wrapped up both a 247-run win and a 2-0 series whitewash.

A knee injury has kept Pietersen out of action since March, forcing him to miss the current series at home to New Zealand, the Indian Premier League, and next month's Champions Trophy.

The redevelopment, which will run until 2027, involves an increase in the ground's capacity by 2,700 to 32,000 and is staggered over a number of stages, starting with the rebuilding of the Warner and Allen stands at the Pavilion End of the ground and extending the museum and library.

MCC - who revised the laws of cricket in 1788, reissue them from time to time and hold the copyright to them - will celebrate the Bicentenary of Lord's in 2014, and Middlesex the 150th anniversary of its formation.