The first Ashes Test is scheduled to begin from November 21 at the Optus Stadium in Perth.
The first Test of the five-match Ashes series is scheduled to be played from November 21 till 25 at the Optus Stadium in Perth.
Australia take on England in the first of five Ashes Tests as part of the ICC World Test Championship at Perth Stadium in Western Australia, beginning Friday, 21 November.
It will be the first series Down Under that James Anderson will be missing since 2002/03 after announcing retiring from international cricket.
The fans are eager to see Pat Cummins in action in the second Test against England and the star fast bowler was seen training with the team as providing a sigh of relief for the Australian supporters.
Notably, Mark Wood will continue to train as planned in the build-up to the Ashes opener.
The first Ashes Test is set to get underway from Friday, November 21 at the Optus Stadium in Perth.
As per the latest update, Scott Boland is likely to feature alongside Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood in the pace attack for first Ashes Test.
Pat Cummins gave a sign of his return to international cricket as he can be seen resuming bowling practice in nets at Sydney Cricket Ground in a viral video.
The left-handed batter, who finished last season of the Sheffield Shield as the top scorer, started the 2025-26 season with three fifties in six innings including a 94 for Tasmania.
Carey said that Australia can tackle any upcoming challenge, riding on past experiences, incredible leadership, and players.
It is to be noted that Cummins is suffering from a lumbar bone stress which requires considerable time to regain fitness.
Notably, Smith recently landed in Australia and has resumed batting in the nets at Cricket New South Wales headquarters. Prior to the Ashes, Smith is scheduled to play the upcoming two rounds of Sheffield Shield for NSW in Brisbane and Sydney.
The first Test of the Ashes series is set to begin at the Optus Stadium in Perth on November 21.
Pat Cummins has been facing a stress issue in the back after playing his last competitive match in July against West Indies in a Test series in the Caribbean.
Harry Brook feels Australia have some incredible bowlers in their line-up but Cummins’ unavailability can affect the hosts negatively in the opening Test.
Notably, the 32-year-old Cummins hasn’t bowled since mid-July—when he suffered a lumbar bone stress (back) injury during the away test series against the West Indies.
Chaudhary registered a time of 9:27.63 minutes while Priti took 9:43.32 to complete her event.
England pacer Stuart Broad was struggling to understand why he had been left out of West Indies tour.
The next assignment for the England cricket team will be the Test matches against the West Indies set to commence on March 8.
England Cricket Board has apologised for the incident and has started investigating the matter.
The level of celebration can be imagined with the fact that Nathan Lyon and Alex Carey were still in their Test whites when the officers absconded them.
Kevin Pietersen has highlighted the fact that Root was the only qualified Test batsman in the team.
Tim Paine’s brother Nick was of the opinion that his brother had done a lot on rebuilding Australian cricket’s reputation after the 2018 ball-tampering scandal.
The heart-warming videos are going viral on social media.
Despite having a great start to the Ashes, David Warner concluded the series by registering a pair.
The footage of Pat Cummins stopping his teammates from opening the champagne bottle immediately went viral and was widely circulated around.
Scott Boland bowled a length delivery which kept way too low and shattered the stumps of the batter.
During the 63rd over of the first innings, the 35-year-old pulled out of his run-up after reaching the bowling crease as he was distracted by the camera behind the batter.
Labuschagne shuffled across the off-side as he tried to flick the ball over the leg-side but he hilariously ended up slipping and falling on the crease.
Australia have ticked all the right boxes in the ongoing series and with Usman Khawaja’s lightening comeback the team has become fiercer.
Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes scored for England in the fourth Test but both are doubtful to feature in the final Ashes Test.
If ECB decides to not send its players to the IPL, it may prove too costly for a few franchises.
In Boland’s absence, Australia might be compelled to bring in Michael Neser who played the second Test in place of Pat Cummins.
The 81-year-old also pointed out the flaws in England’s batting order and urged the top order to step up.
Usman Khawaja added that Australia can give back something to cricket by touring Pakistan this year.
Both David Warner and Usman Khawaja are childhood friends and have played a lot of cricket together in their early days.
Amid all this, fans also got to see the savage side of Ravindra Jadeja who came up with an epic response.
It was an edge-of-the-seat thriller at the SCG by the end of it, Australia were denied victory.
The ball tailed back in so much that it missed Wood’s bat and hit his right shoe.
With every shot played from his bat, Usman Khawaja made the selectors scratch their heads on why he was not part of the team for the past three years.
Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow were body-shamed by reportedly three spectators while the duo was heading towards the dressing room.
To add salts to their wounds, even centurion Jonny Bairstow has become doubtful for the final test match of the series.
The cricketer-turned coach and now also a known cricket pundit Jaffer is known for his clever social media presence and has yet again cleverly taken a dig at Steve Smith while responding to the Aussie broadcasters.
In a mind-blowing incident, the umpire raised his finger deeming it a case of LBW when the ball had actually hit the stumps.
It all happened when Moeen Ali criticized Alastair Cook’s captaincy which seemingly did not go down well with former England skipper.
Khawaja was accompanied by his family in the crowd, who went in complete awe watching him hitting a century.
Meanwhile, Usman Khawaja has replaced Travis Head in the Australian XI.
The fourth Ashes Test is set to get underway on Wednesday, January 5 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Notably, England’s camp has already been stunned with several positive results which include fast-bowling coach Jon Lewis, spin coach Jeetan Patel and strength and conditioning coach Darren Veness.
The cricketer documented the entire incident and shared the footages on Instagram Story, with a compilation of same now going viral.
Warner has made his intentions pretty clear that he is far from done as far as international cricket is concerned. By the looks of it, he is hungry and not only wants to have another chance at winning the Ashes series in England but also beat India in India.
Although there weren’t many moments for the English players to enjoy in this match, there was one during Day 2 of the contest.
Earlier Vaughan had advised Joe Root & Co. to play a nasty brand of cricket rather than being nice with their opponents.
It is to be noted that England have lost 9 Test matches in 2021, which is joint-highest by a team.
Although the match was well in the balance and could have gone either way had the English batters nullified the deficit without losing too many wickets, Starc & Co. had other ideas.
The play did resume on Day 2 but with a 30-minute delay as the visiting team was delayed arriving at the ground due to the entire squad having to be tested after the infections were reported in their camp.
England are trailing 0-2 after losses in Brisbane and Adelaide. However, they did have another disappointing start as the visitors were bowled out for 185.
The stage is set for a superb Ashes game and if a determined England team turns up, every result is still possible in the series.
England are 0-2 down and must win the Melbourne Test to have any chance of clinching the series.
England are in a do or die situation after having suffered two successive losses in the first two Tests.
Australians are in prime form and must be eyeing a clean sweep after comprehensively winning two successive matches.
After the defeat in 2nd Test, Joe Root’s side was forced to re-watch the fall of wickets during the post match meeting.
England’s batting order failed once again as they got bundled out for 192 in the second innings.
Buttler’s departure took place on the last ball of 109th over on James Richardson’s over.
In absence of captain Cummins, it is Steve Smith who is leading the Kangaroos in the ongoing Test match at Adelaide.
Root was caught in a rather awkward situation in the final session of the pink-ball test on Day 4 when a Mitchell Starc delivery hit the Englishman on his groin after which he clearly looked in discomfort.
In the video, Warner was sitting along with Steve Smith and coach Justin Langer and chatting but suddenly he was caught sneezing.
It should be noted that England were docked eight World Test Championship points and 100 % of their match fees for slow over-rate during the Ashes opener.
Joe Root sustained the injury in his groin area during warm ups.
In the absence of first choice bowlers, Jhye Richardson and debutant Michael Neser got an opportunity to be in the team.
Steven Smith became the 5th highest run-scorer as captain for Australia in Test cricket by surpassing Steve Waugh’s run tally.
The Aussie all-rounder, who was bowled for a first-ball duck by Ollie Robinson in the first Test in Brisbane, was dismissed by Ben Stokes.
Marnus and David Warner stitched a 172-run partnership to keep things under control.
The English wicketkeeper had a roller coaster outing where he went from hero to zero throughout the course of day.
The right-handed batsman went into a completely different state of mind after Buttler dropped his catch on 21.
Rajasthan Royals also put up a cheeky post to praise Buttler’s spectacular effort on Thursday.
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Australia, meanwhile, would want to recreate the kind of bowling performance they produced to bowl out India for just 36 runs exactly a year ago at the same venue.
The pink-ball game is set to get underway on December 16.
Richardson returns to the Test match XI three years after he first announced his arrival in Test cricket.
Veteran England bowlers Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad are likely to play in the 2nd Test, starting on Thursday.
The second Test of Ashes is scheduled to start from 16 December at the Adelaide Oval, and will be the first day-night match of the ongoing series.
Reports have also revealed that Hazlewood was spotted in casual clothes while he took a flight to Sydney from Brisbane without any of his teammates for company.
Head won the Player of the Match in the first Test at Brisbane but would not be too proud of this moment.
England have fought way back into the Test match which has kept the possibilities of all results open.
It is being reported that Rob had met Natalie while he was in Australia with the Barmy Army during the last Ashes series Down Under in 2017.
The ball directly hit the batter’s chin and jaw.
Reports state that the technology which is used to help third umpire for checking the no-ball is not available for the ongoing Ashes series.
The praise for Starc’s sensational delivery was not only limited to fans, even former cricket greats couldn’t keep themselves away from acknowledging the beauty of the delivery.
Earlier, Starc had been a victim of a lot of criticism heading into this series as he had not been in the best of form but for the big occasion, he had the perfect delivery.
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Despite the game being just three days away, Joe Root and side are yet to announce the playing XI.
Ben Stokes formally makes a comeback for the first Test with his name present there in the 12-member list. However, James Anderson has been benched.
It was already being speculated that the third-highest wicket-taker in Tests would not play all the five-Test matches on the trot.
The Ashes is set to commence on December 8th, at The Gabba in Brisbane.
The oldest and biggest rivalry in the history of cricket will be telecasted in four languages for the first time in India.
The announcement came at the official launch of the Test series.