Pat Cummins half a chance to be fit for day-night second Ashes Test in Brisbane from December 4 after sitting out two-day win over England in Perth with back issue; Australia have won 13 of 14 pink-ball Tests,

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Skipper Ben Stokes has defended England's lack of warm-up matches ahead of the first Ashes cricket test against Australia in Perth beginning next week.

England have opted against sending their first-choice Test team to play a pink-ball practice match in Canberra

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 Ashes series starts Friday after a long build-up following the tense series in England in 2023. England won the last test but couldn't reclaim the Ashes, with Australia retaining the urn after winning two tests and drawing one.

Graham Thorpe’s widow believes the former England star would still be alive if he had been given better support by cricket chiefs.

Ben Stokes and his England lineup won that test at The Oval in South London but it wasn’t enough to reclaim the Ashes from the Aussies, who won the first two tests and drew the fourth in a five-match series to retain the old urn.

England lost the first Ashes Test because they do "respect conditions" and will "keep getting egg on their face" if they do not change, says former Australia opener Simon Katich. The tourists gave away a positive position with an batting collapse in the afternoon session of day two before Australia romped to an eight-wicket win inside two days.