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.

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

With a head coach from New Zealand and an aggressive style of play known as ‘Bazball,’ the England cricket team is out to topple Australia and reclaim the Ashes for the first time in a decade.

Miserly seamer Scott Boland claimed 4-33 in 11.4 overs during a turbulent second session on Saturday to help Australia bowl England out for 164 in the opening Ashes test at Perth Stadium, setting up a final innings run-chase of 205 for the hosts.

As England counts the cost of its first Ashes Test defeat, questions over how its world-beating pace attack was rendered so impotent and its high-class batters so comprehensively lost the plot will rumble all the way to Brisbane.

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?

The 2025–26 Ashes series kicked off with a bang in Perth, with an enthralling first test whetting the appetite for another high-stakes showdown between cricket’s oldest rivals. The last time Australia hosted England,

Former Indian cricketer Wasim Jaffer has again teased Michael Vaughan. This follows England's recent loss in Perth. The two former players share a lon