England, with their win in Melbourne, have finally snapped their 18-match winless streak in Tests on Australian soil
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
The live streaming of the Australia vs England 3rd Test in the Ashes 2025-26 will be available on the JioHotstar app and website in India
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
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Australia and England have played just 22 Test matches against each other at The Gabba, Brisbane, with Australia winning 16 matches, while England has won just four times
The live streaming of the Australia vs England 2nd Test in the Ashes 2025-26 will be available on the JioHotstar app and website in India
Australia have a 1-0 lead going into the 2nd Ashes Test in Gabba and would be looking to take a healthy 2-0 lead in the 5-match Test series.
Although ruled out, Cummins will accompany the squad to Brisbane to continue his rehabilitation
As Day 2 approaches, England will hope their bowlers respond with the same intensity Australia showed.
The live telecast of the Ashes 2025-26 will be available on Star Sports Network for Indian fans
The ECB's biggest worry with a two-division Test structure is the potential threat it poses to England's most high-profile bilateral series
England, in a surprise turn of events, announced their playing 11 two days before the match on Thursday
Defending champions Pakistan will kick-start their campaign on February 19 against New Zealand before heading to Dubai to lock horns with India. Star Sports will live telecast Champions Trophy matches
In a major change, Steve Smith will be seen leading the Australian side in the fifth ODI in place of Mitchell Marsh
Speaking in the post-match presentation, Brook said, as quoted by Cricbuzz, "We have taken all the positives and the momentum we had from the first two games and brought them to the last two games."
Spinner Adam Zampa overtook former pacer Nathan Bracken to become Australia's eight-highest wicket-taker in ODIs on Saturday.
England vs Australia 4th ODI: England ended Australia's 14-match winning streak in ODIs after defeating them by 46 runs in the third ODI