Day One. End of first session - tea break. England 98-2 after 24 overs and Zak Crawley has reached his half century. Crawley 61 off 80, Root 32 off 60.
Day One. End of first session - tea break. England 98-2 after 24 overs and Zak Crawley has reached his half century. Crawley 61 off 80, Root 32 off 60.
Mitchell Starc’s first spell is over. No more wickets lost. England 45-2 after 10 overs. Crawley playing some risky shots though.
Root nearly caught at slip. This isn’t looking good.
Starc’s 2nd over. Pope out for a duck. Pink ball is swinging a lot 🫤
Last ball of the first over, Duckett out for a Golden Duck 🦆
Starc bowling, of course …
Australia 🇦🇺 v 🏴 England - The Ashes 🏏
2nd Test, Day 1 - a day-night Test
The Gabba: Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
England win the toss and choose to bat first
Watching a bit of the 1st Test between New Zealand v West Indies at the Hagley Oval, Christchurch. Love the look of the ground - lots of grassy banks 🙂 - but the weather does not seem as warm as I’d like. Have to wait until Brisbane for that 😁🏏
Australia score 205-2 and win the first Ashes Test 🏏
Century for Travis Head off 69 balls 👏👏👏
Australia 146-1 running away with this at a rapid pace. Could be over today.
Travis Head gets his 50 off 36 deliveries 👏
First wicket at last. Weatherald out for 23 b Carse. But Australia scoring quickly, already on 75 after 11.3 overs. They only need 130 more now.
Australia 39 without loss after 8 overs. Good start for them, scoring easily, looking worrying for England.
Innings over. Tea taken.
England all out for 164 after 34.4 overs. Lead of 204 runs. The match is moving quickly.
Gus Atkinson was England’s top scorer with 37 off 32 balls.
England 160-9. Archer caught, just Mark Wood left to partner Atkinson.
England get to a 200 run lead with a four from Archer.
Gus Atkinson just took 16 off a Starc over. England 154-7 off 33 overs lead by 194.
… but now 154-8 as Doggett gets Carse. He had a valuable 50 run partnership with Atkinson.
Jamie Smith given out caught behind after a 5 minute umpire review. That didn’t look conclusive.
England 104-7.
England 100-6 after 26.2 overs, now leading by 140.
Stokes out for 2 c Smith b Starc 😔
10 wickets for Starc in the match.
England were doing well but now starting to fall apart.
England 76-5 after 19.1 overs 😮
Starc bowls Root with the first ball of his return.
Oh no! Boland gets another. Brook out for a duck. England 76-4 after 19 overs. Ben Stokes in with Joe Root.
Pope out for 33. Scott Boland’s second wicket. They’re coming quickly for him after lunch.
Duckett out just after lunch for 28. Boland’s wicket. Joe Root coming in to bat to partner Ollie Pope. 🏴 65-2
Lunch day two. Morning session of only two wickets! Duckett given out lbw off the last ball of Boland’s final over before lunch - but saved by his DRS review 😄
England 59-1 lead by 99 runs with 9 wickets remaining.
5th ball from Starc. Crawley out for a pair. England 0-1.
Now for some calm and steady England batting … 🤨🏏
Australia’s innings is over, 132 all out. Carse got Lyon as the final wicket.
The Ashes 2025/26, first Test, day two. Mark Wood opening the bowling. England need one wicket…
The Ashes 2025/26 first Test. Day One Stumps.
Well that was an all-action day of Ashes cricket. 19 wickets and 295 runs. This is not going to be a five day match.
England 172ao. Australia have lost nine wickets and still trail by 49 runs.
Andy Zaltzman - Test Match Special statistician:
This is the most wickets taken in a day of an Ashes Test since the Old Trafford Test of 1909 where both teams were all out in the same day.
Five-for for Ben Stokes 👏
Boland out for a duck.
Stokes has four. Carey out for 26. 🇦🇺 121-8 after 37.4 overs.
And a third wicket for Ben Stokes - Mitchell Starc out for 12. Australia 118-7 still trailing England by 54 runs.
Australia 91-6. Stokes has taken the wicket of Cameron Green.
Stokes bowling now - and takes the wicket of Travis Head. Australia 76-5 after 29.1 overs.
Khawaja out for 2 off 6. Carse’s second wicket. 🇦🇺 31-4
Australia 30-3 after 15.5 overs.
Archer gets Labuschagne, Carse gets Smith for 9 and 17 respectively.
Tea. Australia 15-1 after 10 overs.
Jofra Archer’s first over matches Mitchell Starc’s - a wicket maiden.
Australia innings. Wicket for Jofra Archer from his second ball - Weatherald out lbw for a second-ball duck.
Duck for Wood. England all out for 172 after 32.5 overs. Seven wickets for Mitchell Starc - 7-58 off 12.5 overs, his best ever Test figures.
Smith gone for 33, sixth wicket for Starc 👏
Carse out for 6. 168-8. Not going well for England.
Starc 5-54 off 12 overs 🔥
Atkinson out for 1. Starc gets his 5 wickets. England 161-7 from 30.1 overs.
Brook out for 52
Half-century for Harry Brook off 58 balls. 🏴 148-5
Mitchell Starc bowls Ben Stokes for 6 just after lunch 🏏
England 115-5
Lunch Day One. England 105-4. Lots of action, Starc outstanding.
Ollie Pope out for 46. England 94-4 after 20 overs.
Root out for a duck. England 39-3 after 8.5 overs. Starc bowling superbly.
Starc gets Duckett lbw after 6.4 overs. England 33-2 and a DRS review wasted.
Australia 🇦🇺 v 🏴 England
Wicket maiden over from Starc to begin. Crawley out on the sixth ball, caught by Khawaja at first slip 😔
Australia 🇦🇺 v 🏴 England
First Test, 21 - 25 November
Starts 02:20 GMT
Optus Stadium, Perth
England won the toss and will bat 🏏
🏏🔗 England Men name squad for first Ashes Test in Perth
England 12-player squad:
Ben Stokes (c)
Jofra Archer
Gus Atkinson
Shoaib Bashir
Harry Brook
Brydon Carse
Zak Crawley
Ben Duckett
Ollie Pope
Joe Root
Jamie Smith (wk)
Mark Wood
🏏🔗 India vs South Africa: Proteas win first Test in India since 2010 in low-scoring thriller
South Africa secured their first Test victory in India since 2010 as they triumphed in a low-scoring thriller inside three days in Kolkata.
🏏🔗 Joe Root splutters but Ollie Pope prospers in England’s Ashes warm-up
Pope makes 100 in England’s 426
India win the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 👏
Wolvaardt out for 101 - probably too much for South Africa now.
10 overs left so SA need 88 off 60 balls.
Century for Laura Wolvaardt off 96 balls 👏👏👏
Second woman to get a century in a semi-final and final of a World Cup.
South Africa 211-6 though …
South Africa 186-5 need 113 from 84 balls.
South Africa 173-5 off 32 overs. Drinks break. Two sixes off the last over, one off a no ball.
South Africa 100-2 after 18 overs.
Half-century for Laura Wolvaardt. South Africa 89-2 after 16.3 overs.
South Africa 69-2 after 13 overs.
India finish their innings, scoring 298-7. South Africa bowled well to keep the score below 300.
Jemimah Rodrigues out for 24. India 171-3 after 29.4 overs.
Shafali Verma out for 87. India 166-2 after 27.5 overs.
Half century for Shafali Verma. 106-1.
South Africa take their first wicket after 17.4 overs. India 104-1.
Rain stopped, no overs lost so far and the match starts in about half an hour.
South Africa have won the toss and chosen to bowl first.
World Cup Final rain delay 😢
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Final 2025 🏆
India Women 🇮🇳 v 🇿🇦 South Africa Women
Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai, 09:30 GMT
For the first time in 25 years, a new name will be inscribed on the Women’s World Cup trophy
India beat Australia and get to the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Final 👏
That was a fantastic match. India score 341-5 from 48.3 overs, a record run chase in women’s ODI cricket.
Jemimah Rodrigues finished not out on 127.
India need 15 from 15 !!
Century for Jemimah Rodrigues off 115 balls 👏
But Deepti Sharma run out on 24 🙁
10 overs to go. India on 257-3 and need 82 runs to win.
2 balls later 226-3 … Kaur out for 89 off 88 😕
India 226-2 after 35 overs. They need 113 runs off 90 balls. This should be close and is coming to an exciting finish.
If India are successful in this run chase it will be a record chase in women’s ODI cricket.
Australia 338 all out after 49.5 overs. Phoebe Litchfield scoring 119 off 93 balls.
Very difficult total for India to reach.
Australia 100-1 after 15.3 overs …
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup
2nd semi-final: India 🇮🇳 v 🇦🇺 Australia
Australia won the toss and chose to bat first.
World Cup semi-final: England 🏴 v 🇿🇦 South Africa
South Africa dominant, victorious and through to the World Cup Final. England, chasing 320, all out for 194 after 42.3 overs.
England 144-7 after 30.3 overs, chasing 320. Five wickets for Marizanne Kapp. Not a lot of hope for England now.
Now 3 wickets gone after 7 deliveries. England’s top three batters all dismissed without scoring.
Well this hasn’t started well for England. 0-2 after 5 balls of the first over 😳
Laura Wolvaardt finished on 169 off 149 balls at the end of the 48th over. Brilliant to watch.
South Africa innings completed now, scoring 319-7 from their 50 overs.
A very tricky run chase for England now.
Some fantastic batting and scoring acceleration by Laura Wolvaardt. She’s now on 155 off 136 balls
South Africa 271-6 after 46.2 overs.
Laura Wolvaardt gets her century off 115 balls 👏
South Africa 200-5 after 39.4 overs.