Wounded England face pink-ball challenge
England head into the day-night second Ashes Test in Adelaide on Thursday under pressure and facing an ominous task against an Australian team who have won all of their eight pink-ball matches.
England head into the day-night second Ashes Test in Adelaide on Thursday under pressure and facing an ominous task against an Australian team who have won all of their eight pink-ball matches.
India opening batsman Rohit Sharma will miss the Test series against South Africa due to a hamstring injury.
Australia fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the second Ashes Test against England in Adelaide this week.
Proteas fast bowler Duanne Olivier says his comment in 2019 about wanting to play for England was taken out of context.
Australia won the first Ashes Test in Brisbane by nine wickets, with things going wrong for England right from the start.
England’s batting collapsed again as Australia claimed a convincing nine-wicket win at the Gabba.
England captain Joe Root says his team must fix their fielding and batting to get back into the Ashes series.
Nathan Lyon says reaching the milestone of 400 Test wickets in Saturday’s big Ashes win and joining cricket’s greats has not yet sunk in.
Australia crushed England by nine wickets to win the first Ashes Test in style just after lunch on day four at the Gabba on Saturday.
Travis Head made 152, before Joe Root and Dawid Malan batted England back into contention.
England No 3 Dawid Malan believed his Test career was over before his recall to the team earlier this year.
Joe Root and Dawid Malan batted through the final session to give England hope in the opening Ashes Test against Australia at the Gabba on Friday.
Coming to the wicket among a flurry of Australian wickets, Travis Head fought fire with fire, hitting 152 from 148 balls.
The fifth Ashes Test will reportedly be played at the 45,500-capacity Bellerive Oval in Tasmania.
Ricky Ponting reacts to the issues with the policing of front-foot no-balls on day two of the #Ashes opener at the Gabba.