There was talk of a slow death, rigor mortis and graveyards as the British press pack sifted through the bones of England’s error-riddled Ashes campaign with Australia looking to nail down the series coffin in Melbourne. The Australians, without two of their front-line bowlers, still outplayed the tourists in a crushing 275-run triumph to seize […]
An inevitability hung over England’s doomed Ashes campaign after another miserable day of unremitting struggle for Joe Root’s tourists in Adelaide and growing press pack demands for team changes. A wearying 150 overs in the field under a broiling sun and an all-too-familiar loss of early wickets as England wilted again and left them fighting […]
Australia are lording it over England – the English touring press pack all agree – with the hosts closing in on a 2-0 series lead in Adelaide. And the chances of a comeback by Joe Root’s men ‘belong in cloud cuckoo land’. It was another dispiriting day for England: skittled for 236 to concede a […]
Australia demolished England by nine wickets in a meek first Ashes Test, as a rather lacklustre collapse unfolded in Brisbane. Sportsmail s Lawrence Booth was watching on to deliver his player verdicts.
Australia have won the first Ashes Test in Brisbane after beating England by nine wickets inside four days to take a 1-0 series lead to Adelaide after another batting collapse from the visitors.