England’s two innings lasted 67.5 overs, the fastest the nation has been bowled out twice in a Test match since 1904. McDonald confessed he wasn’t surprised by England’s aggressive approach to batting, adding it’s become the norm for the Ashes rivals since Brendon McCullum took charge of the team in 2022.

Australia might have to change a winning combination for the second Ashes cricket test after Travis Head's impressive opening performance and the possible return of skipper Pat Cummins.

England’s disappearing act in Perth was branded “an affront to Test cricket,’’ so poor it made one correspondent feel ill.

The dust is settling on the first Ashes Test in Perth in which England were beaten by Australia. At lunch on day two, the visitors looked to be in control of the Test. By the end of the day, it

The ground is hosting its first Ashes Test but will replicate the pace and bounce that made the WACA, across the Swan River, so feared

How do you even begin to measure the ineptitude of England’s batting here? Perhaps it is the fact that they bowled Australia out for 132 and yet still contrived to lose by eight wickets in two days. Or that Alastair Cook faced more balls in making his Brisbane double century in 2010 than the entire team did across two innings of this pulverising in Perth.

The West Test reached a television audience of 5.8 million people across Australia, as the Perth pitch proved too hot for England to handle.

Sunil Gavaskar didn't hold back as he wrote about the growing hypocrisy when discussing pitches in the subcontinent compared to those in the SENA.

England punished for batting collapses as they crash to two-day defeat in first Ashes Test; media get out flamethrowers, calling tourists gutless and feeble; should England now field senior players in pink-ball warm-up ahead of second Test vs Australia in Brisbane from December 4?