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• Overton signs new three-year deal with Somerset

  08-12-2025 13:51 via bbc.com
  Overton says he wants to stay at Taunton and chase that 'elusive' County Championship title.
  
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• England dealt fresh Ashes blow with Mark Wood ruled out for rest of series

  09-12-2025 07:41
  Fast bowler says: ‘My knee just hasn’t held up’Matthew Fisher called up in buildup to Adelaide Test The blows just keep coming for England in Australia. On Tuesday came confirmation that Mark Wood will miss the remainder of the Ashes tour because of a knee problem that resurfaced after the first Test defeat in Perth.It represents a heartbreaking setback for Wood following a lengthy battle to be fit for a series that England now find themselves trailing 2-0. The 35-year-old unde
  
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• Ashes Weekly: Starc shines for Australia as England slump again – podcast

  09-12-2025 05:00
  Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and James Wallace to discuss another humbling defeat for England as Australia took full control of the series in Brisbane, with Mitchell Starc starring with both bat and ballRead more: Continue reading...
  
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• My first cricket hero was Imran Khan. Now I close my eyes and replay Mitchell Starc’s bullet-paced yorkers | Shadi Khan Saif

  09-12-2025 04:04
  Cricket has always been my lullaby, my shorthand for belonging. And in Starcy I have another legend to admireGrowing up in the late 1990s, I insisted my younger nephews and nieces call me Imran Khan instead of my real name – our own playful twist on traditional respect rituals. A few years later, I upgraded to Wasim Akram (naturally) and they obligingly followed. They’re all grown now, but they still call me “Mama Khan” or “Wasin Akral”- the clumsy childhood p
  
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• Injured Australian fast bowler Josh Hazlewood ruled out of rest of Ashes series

  09-12-2025 02:22
  Paceman has struggled with hamstring and achilles issues‘It’s really flat for him,’ says Australia coach Andrew McDonaldAustralian fast-bowler Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the remainder of the Ashes series amid hamstring and achilles tendon injuries.Injuries have thwarted the right-arm quick in recent years and had forced him to watch from afar as Australia took a 2-0 series lead at the Gabba last week. Continue reading...
  
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• Burning down the Baz-house is easy, but what comes after that for England? | Barney Ronay

  08-12-2025 21:15
  Brendon McCullum’s regime may be unravelling but there is rarely any suggestion of what to do next and how the team can be improvedOverprepared. Overconfident. Overblown. Over there. And now just over. We know how this goes from here, don’t we? We know this cycle.The days since England’s defeat in Brisbane have boiled down to a real-time competition to become the hate-click boss, to describe in the most sensual, eviscerating detail the depth of England’s badness – n
  
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• McCullum’s ‘overprepared’ Ashes remark may prove England’s Bazball epitaph

  08-12-2025 15:00
  Australia’s superior basics have shattered expectations and pushed the broader philosophy into the spotlightBrendon McCullum hated the term Bazball from the moment it entered the lexicon, deeming it to be reductive and perhaps knowing how it might be weaponised down the line. Now, 2-0 down in an away Ashes series that began with high hopes, it has become the butt of Australian jokes.But McCullum has not helped himself, either. After the gutting at the Gabba, his insistence that, if anythin
  
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• McCullum’s ‘overprepared’ Ashes blunder may prove England’s Bazball epitaph

  08-12-2025 15:00
  Australia’s superior basics have shattered expectations and pushed the broader philosophy into the spotlightBrendon McCullum hated the term Bazball from the moment it entered the lexicon, deeming it to be reductive and perhaps knowing how it might be weaponised down the line. Right now, 2-0 down in an away Ashes series that began with high hopes, it has become the butt of Australian jokes.But McCullum has not helped himself either. After the gutting at the Gabba, his insistence that, if an
  
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• Gabba dramas show why pink-ball Tests are here to stay – and could save the format | Martin Pegan

  08-12-2025 15:00
  Fluctuating conditions and nuances are helping to shakeup five-day cricket with on-field excitement and more eyeballsIt took just six deliveries for Mitchell Starc to work his magic with the pink ball. The dismissal of Ben Duckett in the first over in Brisbane was the left-arm quick’s 82nd wicket in his 15th day-night Test. Starc would take another seven scalps in the second Ashes Test, as Australia romped to an eight-wicket victory at the Gabba. England’s belated resistance to begin
  
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• Gabba dramas show why pink-ball Tests are here to stay – and could save the format

  08-12-2025 15:00
  Fluctuating conditions and nuances are helping to shakeup five-day cricket with on-field excitement and more eyeballsIt took just six deliveries for Mitchell Starc to work his magic with the pink ball. The dismissal of Ben Duckett in the first over in Brisbane was the left-arm quick’s 82nd wicket in his 15th day-night Test. Starc would take another seven scalps in the second Ashes Test, as Australia romped to an eight-wicket victory at the Gabba. England’s belated resistance to begin
  
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• England cannot have 'glass jaw' - McCullum

  08-12-2025 13:52 via bbc.com
  Head coach Brendon McCullum says England will have “no chance” of recovering in the Ashes series if they play with a “glass jaw”.
  
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• McCullum insists England do not have a ‘glass jaw’ and can fight back in Ashes

  08-12-2025 13:00
  Head coach defends squad’s break before third Test‘You have to be strong and get on with it’Brendon McCullum has insisted that England have the quality and character to pick themselves off the canvas and fight their way back into the Ashes contest, and refused to accept the idea of players feeling sorry for themselves after starting the series with two savage defeats. “You come to this country and have a glass jaw, you have no chance,” he said. “You have to be
  
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• Former England coach Lewis takes on Spirit role

  08-12-2025 11:28 via bbc.com
  London Spirit appoint ex-England women head coach Jon Lewis as their women's head coach for the 2026 edition of The Hundred.
  
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• Stewart to resume role as Surrey director of cricket

  08-12-2025 11:24 via bbc.com
  Former England captain Alec Stewart is to return to his role as Surrey's director of cricket.
  
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• England's 'Bazball' message dead - Agnew column

  08-12-2025 09:36 via bbc.com
  If Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum are questioning the mentality of the England players, they need to look at themselves, says Jonathan Agnew.
  
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• Starc shines for Australia as England slump again – Ashes Weekly podcast

  08-12-2025 09:29
  Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and James Wallace to discuss another humbling defeat for England as Australia took full control of the series in Brisbane, with Mitchell Starc starring Continue reading...
  
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• Standing up for Alex Carey, undoubtedly the finest wicketkeeper in world cricket right now | Brendan Foster

  08-12-2025 05:32
  The Australian gloveman redefined the craft of keeping with a game-changing masterclass in the second Ashes TestJust after lunch on the fourth day of the Centenary Test at the MCG in 1977, the classroom speaker at my Perth primary school crackled into life with the muffled voices of the ABC radio.Our teacher demanded we stop what we were doing because history was about to be made. Perhaps Queen Elizabeth, who was in Australia on her Silver Jubilee tour of the Commonwealth, was about to address h
  
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• Watch extended day four highlights on BBC iPlayer

  07-12-2025 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Highlights from day four of the Second Ashes Test in Brisbane.
  
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• No place for weak men in my dressing room - Stokes

  07-12-2025 14:36 via bbc.com
  Captain Ben Stokes questioned his England players' mentality after their crushing defeat by Australia, while Brendon McCullum says they trained "too much".
  
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• Ben Stokes says England have been ‘letting the pressure get to us’ in Ashes

  07-12-2025 14:01
  Captain says his dressing room ‘isn’t a place for weak men’Coach McCullum says England were ‘overprepared’Ben Stokes has admitted that the way England have folded in key moments during the first two Ashes Tests has led him to question the character of his players, and said: “A dressing room that I am captain of isn’t a place for weak men.”After Australia won the second Test in Brisbane by the same eight-wicket margin with which they secured the fir
  
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• 'England in battle to avoid worst Ashes tour in modern times'

  07-12-2025 13:23 via bbc.com
  England are 2-0 down after just six days of the Ashes in Australia - careers and reputations are on the line for the remainder of the series, says Stephan Shemilt.
  
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• Steve Smith responds after heated Jofra Archer Ashes exchange in England defeat

  07-12-2025 12:58 via express.co.uk
  Australia beat England in the second Test in Brisbane to take a 2-0 Ashes lead, with Steve Smith hitting the winning runs after a heated exchange with Jofra Archer
  
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• 'A dressing room I'm captain of isn't for weak men either' - Stokes

  07-12-2025 12:54 via bbc.com
  Ben Stokes says he "needs to dig deep" and get his team mentally prepared for the third Ashes Test, after a thumping eight-wicket defeat by Australia leaves England trailing 2-0 in series.
  
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• Lack of preparation not a factor in second Test loss - McCullum

  07-12-2025 12:35 via bbc.com
  Brendan McCullum believes his side were well prepared for the second Ashes Test, despite deciding against playing a warm-up match, and argues the intensity of their training sessions could have played a factor in their eight-wicket defeat to Australia in Brisbane.
  
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• Smith gets better of Archer after tense confrontation

  07-12-2025 12:22 via bbc.com
  Jofra Archer and Steve Smith exchange insults between the wickets before the Australian captain hits the England bowler for back-to-back boundaries on the way to an eight-wicket win for the home side in the second Test at Brisbane.
  
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• Australia v England: Ashes second Test, day four – as it happened

  07-12-2025 12:06
  Neser takes key wickets before Australia ease to 2-0 leadGeoff Lemon: Neser revels in sweet day of Ashes gloryEngland to seek better preparation before 2029-30 series“As I reach the end of another working week, I am once again reminded of the cruelty of cricketing disappointment. It’s hard enough being an Englishman living in Brisbane at the moment, but no cricket on my weekend seems excessively cruelty...”There’s cricket on today, Phil Withington. It might not last very
  
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• The Ashes: Wounded Stokes says no place for weak men

  07-12-2025 11:47 via bbc.co.uk
  England finally show some fight, but Australia take two nil Ashes lead.
  
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• He’ll always have Brisbane: Michael Neser revels in sweet day of Ashes glory | Geoff Lemon

  07-12-2025 11:47
  Stand-in bowler makes the most of rare chance on what could yet prove to be his final moments in Test cricket• Australia beat England by eight wickets at the GabbaIn the end, the only tension was whether Brisbane’s rain would descend before Australia could knock off the last 32 runs in the final session, and so whether going 2-0 up in the Ashes would be delayed until the fifth day. It turned out that England’s resistance through the light of the afternoon had only dished up some
  
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• England soundly beaten by Australia in second Test drubbing

  07-12-2025 11:29 via bbc.com
  England capitulate to a damning eight-wicket defeat on day of the second Test to give Australia a 2-0 lead in The Ashes.
  
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• England to seek better warmup preparations before 2029-30 Ashes series

  07-12-2025 11:22
  Australia to be offered pick of facilities for 2027 seriesTourists want more serious matches for 2029-30 returnThe England & Wales Cricket Board is ready to offer Australia their pick of warm-up facilities before the next Ashes series in 2027, in an attempt to secure similar treatment when England return in 2029-30 and avoid being forced into the kind of buildup that preceded the current series and has become the focus of intense criticism.England’s preparations are under the microscop
  
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