Ashes 2025-26.

[Durhamfootman]

Pozzo comes in on a sleepy wicket having missed out on the Melbourne greentop. How lucky is that!

quite lucky for Durham next season, perhaps

[backfootpunch]

Bit of grass on the pitch

5mm though not 10mm like last week

England bat first

Bashir not in the side for jacks

[Arthur Crabtree]

Disappointing. Aussies don't play their spinner either.

Webster in for someone...

[Arthur Crabtree]

...Richardson. Didn't make much impact.

[backfootpunch]

Starc batting at 10 for them

Theyve definitely tried to stack the batting

Bowling looks gettable if they can survive starc and boland

[GarlicJam]

Disappointing. Aussies don't play their spinner either.

Webster in for someone...

both sides take a spinner into the test, both sides decline to select their spinner.

Pity.

Richardson was not fantastic last test - his first test in years - but surely Webster for Green was the logical step? Green needs to be dropped and go back and learn to concentrate on his batting again. I reckon even Green knows this.

In my opinion, the Aus selectors have been blinded by potential - but potential doth butter no parsnips.

[backfootpunch]

Crawleys actually left a few outside offstump

If hed done that his entire career hed average 40 not 30

Wonder how long the patience will last

[Arthur Crabtree]

Apparently Webster bowls part time off spin.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Crawleys actually left a few outside offstump

Seeing off the new ball! Whatever next.

[backfootpunch]

Had been an unusually poor start from starc but he finally bowls one in the right spot and gets duckett.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Ducks has one last chance to make an impact.

Really poor series.

[backfootpunch]

Ducks has one last chance to make an impact.

Really poor series.

You could say hes batted like hes hungover

[Arthur Crabtree]

Limited success for Crawley's new approach.

Ruins an ok first hour.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Now Bethell goes. The pressure collapses on Root again.

[backfootpunch]

Its groundhog day

Again...

How many times have england been 50-3 in the last 5 or 6 years