3 d. ago Brendon McCullum: No chance England can win Ashes with ‘glass jaw’ in Australia

The window of opportunity in one of the most hotly anticipated series in years is fast disappearing.

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5 d. ago Ashes second Test state of play as Australia close in on another win over sorry England

England are taking on Australia in the second Test of the Ashes and they trail 1-0 in the series with Day Three just completed at The Gabba in Brisbane.

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8 d. ago Wheelchair rugby league is booming in England – they even won the Ashes

England’s 2-0 series win in the Ashes was the perfect preparation for the World Cup in Australia next yearBy No Helmets RequiredEngland did win the Ashes last month. The wheelchair team’s 2-0 series victory in Australia went under the radar in the UK. With games played in the early hours and not screened on mainstream TV, the team missed out on the adulation that came their way when they won the World Cup in Manchester three years ago. “The forgotten Ashes? That’s sad if it’s true,” says the coach, Tom Coyd. “The NRL showed great engagement and we did loads of media there, but we were in a bubble and pretty disconnected from back home.”England will return to Australia next year to defend their world title. The favourites will be expected to beat Wales, USA and Ireland in their group before facing the second and third best teams in the world – France and Australia – in the knockout stages of the tournament in Wollongong. The Ashes series taught Coyd vital lessons about how to manage ...

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2 w. ago Travis Head powers Australia to humbling Ashes Test win over England inside two days

1st Test, D2: Australia, 132 & 205-2, bt England, 172 & 164Opener’s devastating 123 seals eight-wicket victoryThe news from Perth is that the catalogue of great English calamities in Australia has a brand new entry. For the first time in 104 years an Ashes Test match has been wrapped up inside just two days and England, on the receiving end of an eight-wicket thumping, may already be broken.Ben Stokes will doubtless push back at that notion, such is his refusal to ever throw in the towel. But as Travis Head cut and carved his way to a breathtaking 69-ball century, vaporising a target of 205 in just 28.2 overs, the psychological blow landed by the hosts felt greater than their 1-0 lead. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago BREAKING: England suffer humiliating Ashes defeat as Australia romp to First Test win

Australia have taken the lead in the Ashes, cruising past England to win the first test by eight wickets at the Perth Stadium

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2 w. ago England suffer brutal eight wicket loss as Australia clinch victory in first Ashes Test

Australia take a 1-0 lead in the five-match Ashes series

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2 w. ago The Ashes: All you need to know as Travis Head heroics stun England for huge Australia win

England were stunned by Australia batter, Travis Head, as he made a breath-taking 123 to turn the tables in the first Ashes Test with the home side winning inside two days.

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2 w. ago Australia v England: hosts chasing 205 to win Ashes first Test on day two – live

Hosts closing on target after another wild day in Perth Ashes top 100 players | Get The Spin newsletter | Mail Rob43rd over: Australia 131-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 6) And on it goes for Doggett. Another clunky drive, this time through mid on, gets him back for a second run. Fourth ball of the over he finally gets a reprieve, a single to cover. Atkinson bumps Lyon but the ball sails way over his head.42nd over: Australia 128-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 3) Lyon single first ball puts Doggett back on strike. Ohh, dropped catch! In at short leg, Pope under the mitre, and the ball reaches his fingertips but goes down rather than up. Mark Wood keeps peppering Doggett, who by the end of the over has faced every delivery so far today but two. The sixth ball he decides he’s had enough and aims a big drive, inside edges it, gets a run to fine leg, and keeps the strike. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ashes 2025 live score: Travis Head makes century as Australia race towards victory

England set Australia a target of 205 runs to win the first Test

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2 w. ago Ashes 2025 live score: Australia on top chasing 205 runs to win first Ashes Test

England set Australia a target of 205 runs to win the first Test

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2 w. ago The Ashes day two LIVE: England rally to set Australia target of 205 to win first Test after hosts roared back with four quick wickets

Nineteen wickets fell on a rollercoaster opening day of the first Ashes Test, with Australia going from the penthouse to the outhouse as their batting was left in complete disarray by the tourists.

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2 w. ago Ashes 2025 live score: England bowled out for 164 and set Australia target of 205 to win first Ashes Test

England set Australia a target of 205 runs to win the first Test

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2 w. ago Ashes icon denies becoming bodybuilder despite impressive body transformation

A member of the last England team to win an Ashes series in Australia now looks much different from his playing days

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2 w. ago Ashes hero forced to deny becoming bodybuilder after incredible transformation

A member of the last England team to win the Ashes in Australia now looks remarkably different from his playing days

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3 w. ago Ben Stokes to pay tribute to his late father with specially designed Ashes kit

Ben Stokes will lead England in Australia as they look to win the Ashes for the first time since 2015

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3 w. ago Why Australia will win v why England can win: two Guardian cricket writers make their Ashes cases

No 1-ranked Australia are favourites on home soil but through a forest of caveats for England, there is still a path to the urnEven the greats of the Ashes have been weighed down by 143 years of shared history, tradition and controversy. For keen observers of Australia and England, Ashes anxiety can cloud judgments, hopes and dreams. Personally, a heart still bearing the scars from more than a decade spent living behind enemy lines as a once all-conquering Australia failed to tie – let alone win – an Ashes series in England, now insists on managing expectations. But as the ICC’s top two-ranked men’s Test teams prepare for a contest set to be shaped as much by endurance as execution, the head is ready to rule with a quiet confidence that Australia will triumph in a fourth straight Ashes as hosts. Continue reading...

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