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Ashes 2025-26: Australia vs England | 5th Test | Sydney | January 04-08 | Match Discussion

Which team will win the 5th Ashes Test?

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Root is out for 6. That concludes Root's Ashes I guess. He scored 399 runs in this Ashes (average of 44). :inti

ENG - 117/3.

Trailing by 66 runs.
 
When England needed temu Tendulkar to play a slow grinding knock,he failed when it matters. A FTB and softy player. :kp
 
Sydney is no longer that spin friendly venue it used to be. Have the pitches been relaid?

Used to help spin from day 3 onwards. This pitch seems harder more like those on Other Australian grounds. Doing a bit off the cracks on day 4.
@Nikhil_cric
 
Ahmed216 said:
Sydney is no longer that spin friendly venue it used to be. Have the pitches been relaid?

Used to help spin from day 3 onwards. This pitch seems harder more like those on Other Australian grounds. Doing a bit off the cracks on day 4.
@Nikhil_cric
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To be fair, neither side has any specialist spinner currently. Lyon got injured. Other spinners aren't good enough.

England also do not have any real spinner.
 
Ahmed216 said:
Sydney is no longer that spin friendly venue it used to be. Have the pitches been relaid?

Used to help spin from day 3 onwards. This pitch seems harder more like those on Other Australian grounds. Doing a bit off the cracks on day 4.
@Nikhil_cric
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Last year they used greenish pitch for Sydney test against india. They have changed pitches after back back to back India phainata at home.

For Ashes they won't care much as its a dead rubber so used a flat pitch.

:kp
 
Another England injury blow as Stokes limps off in Sydney

England will be sweating on the fitness of Ben Stokes after the captain and all-rounder walked off the ground early on day four of the fifth Ashes Test match in Sydney.

Stokes walked off injured in the middle of his 28th over of Australia's innings, with the England camp confirming the skipper was dealing with an adductor concern.

Later in the second session of play, as England chipped away at Australia's lead, team management confirmed that Stokes will bat.

Harry Brook took on captaincy duties in Stokes' absence in the field, with the English bowling the hosts out for 567.

Down 3-1 in the series, the tourists' visit has been hampered by a number of injuries, with Stokes joining Gus Atkinson (hamstring), Jofra Archer (side strain) and Mark Wood (knee) as stricken fast bowlers on the tour.

England lost the early wicket of Zak Crawley (1) in their second innings at the Sydney Cricket Ground, though recovered through Jacob Bethell, who raised his bat for a half-century.

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BouncerGuy said:
Another England injury blow as Stokes limps off in Sydney

England will be sweating on the fitness of Ben Stokes after the captain and all-rounder walked off the ground early on day four of the fifth Ashes Test match in Sydney.

Stokes walked off injured in the middle of his 28th over of Australia's innings, with the England camp confirming the skipper was dealing with an adductor concern.

Later in the second session of play, as England chipped away at Australia's lead, team management confirmed that Stokes will bat.

Harry Brook took on captaincy duties in Stokes' absence in the field, with the English bowling the hosts out for 567.

Down 3-1 in the series, the tourists' visit has been hampered by a number of injuries, with Stokes joining Gus Atkinson (hamstring), Jofra Archer (side strain) and Mark Wood (knee) as stricken fast bowlers on the tour.

England lost the early wicket of Zak Crawley (1) in their second innings at the Sydney Cricket Ground, though recovered through Jacob Bethell, who raised his bat for a half-century.

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Will he bat or not ? I badly want England to draw this test but hope are only 5%. :kp
 
Ahmed216 said:
Sydney is no longer that spin friendly venue it used to be. Have the pitches been relaid?

Used to help spin from day 3 onwards. This pitch seems harder more like those on Other Australian grounds. Doing a bit off the cracks on day 4.
@Nikhil_cric
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This pitch is harder to bat on ???

You sure you are watching the current test match taking place in Sydney????
 
If England play sensible cricket they can draw this test. But expecting sanity form these bazballers is asking for too much.

Starc is tired after playing all the test yet bowling 145kmp speed. Top stuff

:kp
 
Devadwal said:
Last year they used greenish pitch for Sydney test against india. They have changed pitches after back back to back India phainata at home.

For Ashes they won't care much as its a dead rubber so used a flat pitch.

:kp
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😄 There's a world beyond your India-centric universe
 
Hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha 🤣 🤣

Another one bite the dust.

These lossers mockery of test cricket. Please end their misery today itself.

:klopp :kp
 
Ahmed216 said:
Bethell has looked good but his domestic stats are poor. Seems strange.
First FC hundred for him today.
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He is not that good. This is fluke. LOL.

England only have 2 good batters and they are Root and Brook. Both average 50+. Rest are average including Bethell.
 
Ahmed216 said:
Sydney is no longer that spin friendly venue it used to be. Have the pitches been relaid?

Used to help spin from day 3 onwards. This pitch seems harder more like those on Other Australian grounds. Doing a bit off the cracks on day 4.
@Nikhil_cric
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No Australian pitch , except the recent Adelaide tracks seems to help spin lately

Until Day 3, this was one of the flatter Australian pitches, maybe it's changed today.
 
sweep_shot said:
He is not that good. This is fluke. LOL.

England only have 2 good batters and they are Root and Brook. Both average 50+. Rest are average including Bethell.
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Bethell has the characteristics to succeed in Test cricket. His selection was based on that. This is where Pope was ordinary. Had the talent, but was a mental midget majority of the time. Also we got to remember, batting at three is far more challenging than at five where Brook hides.
 
Commie are bored that they are talking about World T20 and IPL. Ye hai Ashes ka standard.

This is what happened with one sided contest.

:klopp :kp
 
Devadwal said:
Commie are bored that they are talking about World T20 and IPL. Ye hai Ashes ka standard.

This is what happened with one sided contest.

:klopp :kp
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As they were discussing IPL and world T20, I'm surprised they didnt extend the conversation to indias recent white washed hammerings from South Africa and New Zealand in India.

Atleast England are consistent at home.
 
aboveandbeyond said:
As they were discussing IPL and world T20, I'm surprised they didnt extend the conversation to indias recent white washed hammerings from South Africa and New Zealand in India.

Atleast England are consistent at home.
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Neither win at home nor away - This is English tullebaaz cricket for you.

Loving the meltdown :klopp :kp
 
Webster spins Aussies into box seat despite Bethell brilliance

Jacob Bethell's brilliant maiden first-class century has given England a chance after Beau Webster's swith to off-spin caused a collapse

Australia are closing in on a fourth Ashes Test victory this summer with the effect of Jacob Bethell's dazzling coming-of-age century neutered by another sequence of bewildering England own-goals.

The recalled Beau Webster emerged as the unlikeliest of heroes on the penultimate day of the final NRMA Insurance Test, making up for the hosts' lack of a frontline spinner by taking three wickets with his secondary bowling skill including injured captain Ben Stokes.

Stokes, who walked off the field with an adductor injury on Wednesday morning midway through his 101st over of the series, demoted himself down the order in England’s second innings, but was in clear discomfort and limply became Webster's third victim in a disastrous final session for the visitors.

By stumps, England's lead was a precarious 119 at stumps with more Bethell brilliance on day five now their only hope of pulling the series scoreline back to 3-2.

Bethell reached 142no from 231 balls by the close of play, surviving a nervy final over against Scott Boland, with Matthew Potts, yet to score from 10 balls, unbeaten at the other end at the close with England's score on 8-302.

Webster, earlier missing out on a chance to post a maiden Test hundred after being left stranded on 71no, dismissed Harry Brook and Will Jacks in the space of three balls to undo all of the grit shown by wonderkid Bethell in over close to six hours at the crease.

The 22-year-old strokemaker showed why the Bazball regime has fast-tracked him to international cricket, as he serenely pushed through to his first Test hundred. It was remarkably also his maiden first-class ton – something no specialist English batter had done before.

The fluency of his driving and back-foot punching had cricket legends gasping. He hardly hit a ball in the air and calmly shrugged off an early knock to the helmet from a Cameron Green bouncer.

He spent 17 balls within one blow of triple-figures before carting Webster over mid-on to prompt an understated celebration. His parents were in tears watching on from the 42,864-strong crowd, the largest ever on day four of a Test here.

The youngest member of England's Ashes squad showed considerably more nous than many of his more seasoned teammates and his only mis-step might have come in a run-out mix-up with Jamie Smith.

But England's wicketkeeper surely must take equal responsibility in his second dismissal at the hands of Marnus Labuschagne in as many days.

Only Will Jacks could claim a more irresponsible exit. The allrounder, who swapped places with Stokes due to the latter's injury, saw his nightmare Test continue when he punted his second ball, off Webster, in the air to a diving Green on the same boundary he put down Travis Head a day earlier.

That came amid a match-turning collapse of 4-48 made possible by Webster's rare ability to switch from his regular medium pace back to the finger spin that had been his main bowling discipline in the earlier stages of his first-class career.

Webster had sent down two previous overs of seam but switched to spin with dramatic effect. From his seventh ball coming off his short run, the towering allrounder turned an off-break sharply into Harry Brook, which was given out on review.

The Tasmanian raised both arms in triumph when the 'three reds' came up and he could not have imagined he would be celebrating Jacks' exit only moments later while teammates mobbed him.

Australia's burgling of wickets continued when Jake Weatherald's pinpoint throw allowed a cackling Labuschagne to whip off the bails with the scrambling Smith well short of his ground.

Mitchell Starc's drought of failing to make a first-over breakthrough finally ended when the new-ball king ripped a vicious in-swinger back into the pads of a leaving Zak Crawley.

It was an otherwise wayward opening spell from the left-armer, who struggled with the worn footholes on the bowling crease. When he got it right, he sent one whizzing past Ben Duckett's nose off a length as the challenge of the surface's up-and-down bounce became apparent.

Duckett nonetheless skipped to his highest score of the series but he had added just four to his tally after Green put him down in the gully when he chopped on for 42 off Neser after lunch. It capped the third-worst five-Test Ashes tour by an opener with his series average barely topping 20.

Amid the raft of anger-inducing England dismissals, none showed more displeasure than Root after the first-innings centurion succumbed to a barrage of pressure. Having nicked Starc through a vacant third slip, the 35-year-old was pinned lbw by the indefatigable Boland.

Root, who had previously gone undismissed from 281 consecutive Boland deliveries to him in Tests going back four years, lingered for an eternity after his review showed ball-tracking the appeal only just clipping the leg bail. He dropped his bat before finally trudging off for possibly the last time in an Ashes Test on these shores.

The 101-run stand between Brook and Bethell took England into the lead though whispered hopes of an unlikely comeback were about to be dashed.

Australia's first-innings advantage had earlier took their first-innings lead to 183 as Webster's stand with Steve Smith grew to 107 before the former ran out of partners.

Josh Tongue (3-97 from 30 overs) ensured Smith added just nine to his overnight tally of 129, dismissing him for the sixth time in first-class cricket, as England limited the damage despite the loss of Stokes.

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Jacob Bethell's brilliant maiden first-class century has given England a chance after Beau Webster's...
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At 219/3 with 23 overs left for the day , Draw looked like a probable outcome & then Webster [ some1 I hoped would be in playing 11 since first Test ] took 2 ...
 
Nikhil_cric said:
No Australian pitch , except the recent Adelaide tracks seems to help spin lately

Until Day 3, this was one of the flatter Australian pitches, maybe it's changed today.
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It did not spin.
It was a great knock in my opinion though from Bethell. I watched a good part of today's game. seamers got good assistance from the pitch. It seamed around and there was a lot of awkward bounce.
 
Shocker of a shot from Jacks. Worse than Smith's dismissal in 1st inns.

Duckett's angled bat shots again proved fatal on these bouncy wickets. All three have had shockers in the field too on this tour.

Good knock from Bethell though, nice weight transfer and some beautiful backfoot punches. England need to somehow scrape together a 200 lead.
 
Markhor said:
Shocker of a shot from Jacks. Worse than Smith's dismissal in 1st inns.

Duckett's angled bat shots again proved fatal on these bouncy wickets. All three have had shockers in the field too on this tour.

Good knock from Bethell though, nice weight transfer and some beautiful backfoot punches. England need to somehow scrape together a 200 lead.
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200 seems far fetched ... 160 should please England but lets not forget , they are a bowler short with Stokes done & dusted .
 
Hopefully Bethell has ended Pope's career. What a waste of time and investment. Even Crawley has delivered more times for England than Pope.
 
Ahmed216 said:
Bethell has looked good but his domestic stats are poor. Seems strange.
First FC hundred for him today.
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He's a pure talent pick. But I don't think it's a strange selection because Bazball has made far stranger selections like Josh Hull and Shoaib Bashir. Bethell has always been highly touted in the England system from age-group cricket.
 
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