Mitchell Starc struck inside the first over again to remove Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope was out for a duck as well moments later. But Zak Crawley and Joe Root guided the visitors to 98-2 at tea, which ...

In Brisbane on Thursday, Test cricket will change colour. A day-night game means that, for the 25 th time, a Test match will be played with a pink ball. England’s hopes of regaining the Ashes rest on ...

For a format that's been around for a decade now, there's still plenty of mystery surrounding day-night Test cricket. "The pink ball under lights, I think it does do a little bit more," Scott Boland ...

Hosts are again without captain Pat Cummins and fellow quick Josh Hazlewood England’s players play with a fooball during a training session at The Gabba in Brisbane on December 2, 2025, ahead of the ...

Deputy Editor Andrew arrived at ESPNcricinfo via Manchester and Cape Town, after finding the assistant editor at a weak moment as he watched England's batting collapse in the Newlands Test. Andrew ...

Ten years ago last week, Martin Guptill faced up against Mitchell Starc at Adelaide Oval for the first ball in day-night Test. What played out was a gripping, low-scoring encounter, including a dose ...

And so, to Brisbane. The Gabba. The gladiatorial stadium stands between England and parity in the Ashes series. The Gabba is not a happy hunting ground for England - they have not won in Brisbane ...

2025 really gave John Popper the runaround. As he reveals in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, a series of health mishaps nearly killed him this year, multiple times — but he’s made it ...

Day-night Test cricket is different. It's chaotic, it's dramatic, and now, 10 years into its existence, it's unquestionably Australian. Out of the 24 pink ball Tests to be played since the first in ...

The Athletic has launched a Cricket WhatsApp Channel. Click here to join. No team sport is quite so obsessed by the colour of the ball as cricket. Where the annual shift in English Premier League ...

Australia women's captain Alyssa Healy says her husband Mitchell Starc will be "licking his lips" at the prospect of using the pink ball in the second Ashes Test at Brisbane. Starc is the most ...

Joe Root will look to make a substantial score for England in the second Test • Getty Images Joe Root has questioned whether the Ashes should include a pink-ball Test ahead of Thursday's day-night ...