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Smith backs axing but day-night Ashes Test not dead yet

Steve Smith has backed calls to axe the day-night Test from Australia's next home Ashes series, but things might not be so simple for organisers.

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Aussie in the frame as England RL World Cup coach

Shaun Wane has stepped down as England rugby league coach, with Australian Willie Peters among those being tipped to take his place for the World Cup.

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Shaun Wane steps down as England coach in World Cup year

England lost all three home Ashes Tests against Australia last autumn

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Ashes hero Starc's summer far from over with BBL return

Australia's Ashes hero Mitchell Starc is far from feeling spent, saying there's one more item on the bucket list ahead of his BBL return with the Sydney Sixers.

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Why Sean Abbott won't give up on T20 World Cup hopes

Sydney Sixers gun Sean Abbott missed the cut for Australia's Twenty20 World Cup squad but is on stand-by for a late call-up.

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Ashes calamity has trashed McCullum’s credibility. It’s time to call on Alec Stewart

England’s best performances came when the players didn’t follow the coach’s rhetoric and that highlights the problem with his one-dimensional approach

The Guardian - UK

Ashes 2025-26: our writers’ end-of-series England v Australia awards

Brainless moments, moral victories and tough lessons were abundant during a series that still provided plenty of drama

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England ruthlessly privatised cricket – Australia embraces it with constant public displays of affection

If there is one takeaway for England from this Ashes tour it should be how cricket thrives in a nation where it is readily and freely available as the dominant summer pastime

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All-heart Travis Head leaves indelible mark on Ashes series by playing his own game

The Australian’s rare attitude to the game and his destructive batting against England have seen him elevated to cult hero status

The Guardian - AU

Alastair Cook outlines stance over becoming England’s next head coach

The former England captain has been linked with replacing Brendon McCullum as head coach

The Independent UK

Brendon McCullum to continue as England head coach ahead of T20 World Cup

Major decisions expected to be made following the tournament

Evening Standard

Brendon McCullum holds talks on England future and ‘keen to carry on’

The head coach’s position is under scrutiny as the ECB reviews a dismal Ashes defeat.

The Independent UK

Ben Stokes ready to deliver some hard truths in England's Ashes post-mortem

The England captain admits that the ‘Bazball’ approach has not been working

Evening Standard

Sports quiz of the week: Ashes, Afcon, Australian Open and moving managers

Have you followed the big news in football, cricket, boxing, tennis, athletics, snooker, darts and cycling?

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Green or Webster, Head the opener: Australia’s searching questions to rise from the Ashes

Australia take away 4-1 series victory and bragging rights but also a number of issues that need to be addressed over a busy 18-month period ahead

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Five Ashes charts: the numbers that show how Australia got the better of England

From Ben Stokes’s drastically reduced strike rate to Mitchell Starc’s imperious bowling figures, the statistics from the series tell their own story

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Nostradamus Starc and Smith saw England's woes coming

Steve Smith and Mitchell Starc's Ashes predictions have proven correct, with the pair highlighting England's biggest bowling issues months before the series.

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Starc warning: age no barrier for Aussies at next Ashes

When Australia left England after the 2023 Ashes, it looked likely most of the squad could retire before 2027. Now, the vast majority look set to return.

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Travis Head compared to legend after brilliant Ashes

Travis Head has been compared to Test legend and former teammate David Warner after his sparkling Ashes series at the top of the batting order.

The Guardian - UK

The mediocre Ashes: England arrived as a rabble and Australia weren’t much better

Australia were there for the taking but Brendon McCullum’s tourists were so poor and ill-prepared they never got close

The Guardian - UK

Sack the vibe: goodbye Bazball and hello England’s search for a cricketing soul

There have to be consequences for Rob Key and Brendon McCullum but English cricket’s problems lie much deeper and will be much harder to fix

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Smith, Starc come to defence of George Bailey

Mitchell Starc and Steve Smith have pointed at Australia's success during George Bailey's time as chief selector, dismissing criticism of him during the Ashes.

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Stokes concedes other teams are decoding Bazball

Ben Stokes has pledged to fight for "very, very, very good coach" Brendon McCullum as other teams begin to decode his 'Bazball' tactics.

The Independent UK

Kevin Pietersen calls for six England changes after miserable Ashes defeat

England slumped to a heavy 4-1 Ashes series defeat with the ECB set to ‘review’ a difficult tour

The Guardian - UK

England’s Ashes humbling was more a series of letdowns than ‘series of our lives’

They landed in Perth expecting to challenge Australia but after a 4-1 defeat and more off-field revelations, the laid-back approach of McCullum’s regime is in the ECB’s sights

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