Starc gets Jacks for 19. England 251-7. Root running out of partners.
Starc gets Jacks for 19. England 251-7. Root running out of partners.
Joe Root now on 92, his highest Test score in Australia ๐ฌ
Jamie Smith bowled Scott Boland for 0. Great ball. England 211-6.
Stokes run out on 19. England 210-5.
Dinner (?) Day One. England 196-4.
Root 66 off 120 ๐
England 191-4 after 43 overs.
Starc now the most successful left-arm seam bowler in Test history ๐
Mitchell Starc now has 415 Test wickets - the most of any left-arm seamer in the history of the game. He’s overtaken Pakistan great Wasim Akram (414) with his three wickets at the Gabba.
BBC Sport
Starc back bowling. Brook out for 31. England 176-4 after 39.2 overs. Stokes comes out to bat.
50 for Joe Root off 83 balls ๐
He just needs that next 50!
England 139-3 after 30 overs.
Crawley out for 76 in the 28th over. Neser bowling.
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 Starcโs 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 isnโt looking good.
Starcโs 2nd over. Pope out for a duck. Pink ball is swinging a lot ๐ซค
Last ball of the first over, Duckett out for a Golden Duck ๐ฆ
Starc bowling, of course โฆ
Australia ๐ฆ๐บ v ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England - The Ashes ๐
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 ๐ - but the weather does not seem as warm as Iโd like. Have to wait until Brisbane for that ๐๐
๐๐ England abandon all-out pace attack with recall of Will Jacks for second Ashes Test in Brisbane
๐๐ Glamorgan Cricket 2026 Fixture List
Australia score 205-2 and win the first Ashes Test ๐
Century for Travis Head off 69 balls ๐๐๐
Australia 146-1 running away with this at a rapid pace. Could be over today.
Travis Head gets his 50 off 36 deliveries ๐
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 Englandโs 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.
โฆ 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 didnโt look conclusive.
England 104-7.
England 100-6 after 26.2 overs, now leading by 140.
Stokes out for 2 c Smith b Starc ๐
10 wickets for Starc in the match.
England were doing well but now starting to fall apart.
England 76-5 after 19.1 overs ๐ฎ
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 Bolandโs second wicket. Theyโre coming quickly for him after lunch.
Duckett out just after lunch for 28. Bolandโs wicket. Joe Root coming in to bat to partner Ollie Pope. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ 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 ๐
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 โฆ ๐คจ๐
Australiaโs 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 wicketโฆ
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 ๐
Boland out for a duck.
Stokes has four. Carey out for 26. ๐ฆ๐บ 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. Carseโs second wicket. ๐ฆ๐บ 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 Archerโs first over matches Mitchell Starcโs - 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 ๐
Carse out for 6. 168-8. Not going well for England.
Starc 5-54 off 12 overs ๐ฅ
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. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ 148-5
Mitchell Starc bowls Ben Stokes for 6 just after lunch ๐
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 ๐ฆ๐บ v ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England
Wicket maiden over from Starc to begin. Crawley out on the sixth ball, caught by Khawaja at first slip ๐
Australia ๐ฆ๐บ v ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England
First Test, 21 - 25 November
Starts 02:20 GMT
Optus Stadium, Perth
England won the toss and will bat ๐
๐๐ 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
๐๐ 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.
๐๐ Joe Root splutters but Ollie Pope prospers in Englandโs Ashes warm-up
Pope makes 100 in Englandโs 426
๐๐ The remarkable story of the 1897 Sydney riot that set the tone for 150 years of Ashes rivalry
India win the ICC Womenโs Cricket World Cup 2025 ๐
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 ๐๐๐
Second woman to get a century in a semi-final and final of a World Cup.
South Africa 211-6 though โฆ
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 ๐ข
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Final 2025 ๐
India Women ๐ฎ๐ณ v ๐ฟ๐ฆ 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 Womenโs Cricket World Cup Final ๐
That was a fantastic match. India score 341-5 from 48.3 overs, a record run chase in womenโs ODI cricket.
Jemimah Rodrigues finished not out on 127.
India need 15 from 15 !!
Century for Jemimah Rodrigues off 115 balls ๐
But Deepti Sharma run out on 24 ๐
10 overs to go. India on 257-3 and need 82 runs to win.
2 balls later 226-3 โฆ Kaur out for 89 off 88 ๐
