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Earlier, Shoaib Bashir missed the opening Test of England's India tour in 2024 after being required to return to the UK to complete his visa process

Australia's victory lifted their points percentage (PCT) from 85.71 to 87.50, marking their seventh win of the current World Test Championship cycle.

Travis Head (163) struck 24 boundaries and one six in his 166-ball innings to provide Australia with a perfect platform to secure a mammoth first-innings lead in Sydney

Australia finish with 166 for 2 at stumps on Day 2, still trailing by 218 runs in the first innings

England's innings began with promise, as openers Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley got off to a rapid start. The day however, got marred by bad weather and light.

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Stokes, relaying his thoughts through the team's internal channel post-match, admitted that the finish felt almost unbearably stretched

In an interesting situation, the current top three in the WTC 2025-27 points table are the winners of all three editions of the World Test Championship

England, with their win in Melbourne, have finally snapped their 18-match winless streak in Tests on Australian soil

South Africa vs India, 2024 Test in Cape Town is the only Test match where a team came out to bat two times in a Test match that did not involve either England or Australia

Josh Tongue, with his maiden fifer on Australian soil, helped visitors enjoy a dominant day in Ashes 2025-26

Asked directly whether he expects to remain in charge for England's upcoming home summer, McCullum suggested that such decisions sit beyond his authority

With veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon ruled out after suffering a hamstring injury during the third Test, Australia have turned to Todd Murphy as their frontline spinner

Australia retained the Ashes with two tests to spare after paceman Mitchell Starc took three of the last four wickets to blunt England's defiant comeback in the third cricket test. Australia started Day 5 needing four wickets to retain the Ashes, with England resuming at 6-207 and still 228 runs away from the victory target of 435 that would have required a world record to achieve. Starc took the only wicket in the morning session Jamie Smith for 60 as England piled on 102 runs. England's rally had narrowed the Ashes equation at lunch on the last day: Australia needed three wickets to clinch the old urn in Adelaide and England needed 126 runs to keep the five-match series alive. With England's lower-order doggedly mounting pressure and Australia's attack missing veteran spinner Nathan Lyon, who limped off the field with an injured hamstring, the leading bowler in the series delivered for the hosts. Starc was voted player of the match in Australia's eight-wicket wins in Perth and

Nathan Lyon severely dented England's desperate Ashes survival bid with three quick blows: vice-captain Harry Brook, bowled; captain Ben Stokes, bowled; leading scorer Zak Crawley, stumped. Just as England was starting to gain confidence Saturday chasing what needed to be a world-record 435 to keep the Ashes series alive, Lyon returned to the Australian attack. Crawley (85) and Brook (30) had combined in a 68-run stand to revive England's innings from 109-3 to 177-3 after Australia skipper Pat Cummins took out the top order. Then Lyon, who moved to No. 2 on Australia's all-time list of wicket-takers in the first innings, started a new spell in the evening session. On his second ball Lyon dismissed a cavalier Brook, who reached too far and completely missed an extravagant reverse sweep. The 38-year-old spinner quickly took three wickets for eight runs in a sequence that ripped through the middle order and suddenly England was 194-6. Stokes, England's totemic leader, was out trying

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Footage aired by Australia's Channel Seven showed a security guard pushing away a camera operator who attempted to move closer to the England players at Brisbane airport

Matthew Hayden congratulated Root for his maiden Test ton in Australia after stumps on Day 1. Check what his daughter, Grace Hayden said in her Instagram story

Root's first century on Australian soil is also his 40th overall Test century, which means he is now just one behind former Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting, who has the most Test tons (41)

Starc now has 417 Test wickets in 102 matches at an average of 26.53 with 18 five-wicket hauls and three 10-wicket hauls under his belt