Poms to play Ashes green card
England must be considering a green top at Lord’s. The hosts think this is the best — only? — way to stop Steve Smith.
Ashes
Barmy Army proved easy to beat
Vociferous support from the Barmy Army hardly makes England an invincible force.
Negative side to neutral umpires
Two the three most inexperienced umpires on the elite panel were given key roles in the Ashes because of the neutral umpire rule.
Hazlewood primed, Bancroft struggles
Josh Hazlewood is in the box seat for a recall as Cameron Bancroft fails to fire ahead of second Test.
Vegemite lobs Ashes sledge
Vegemite has taken a tabloid bat to Marmite after jars of it were handed out at the first test.
Khawaja: We won’t get lazy
Australian batsman Usman Khawaja says the team will not be lazy after their stirring first Test win over England.
Pace riches test selectors
Pat Cummins is the only member of Australia’s pace battery that is a chance of playing every Test of the Ashes series.
County game lifts Australia
Justin Langer’s respect for County cricket has resulted in the best prepared touring team to visit England in many years.
Ugly echoes in booing
The relentless booing of Australia’s cricketers is not as vicious as that aimed at Adam Goodes.
Mo can’t throw Lyon off his scent
English cricketer Moeen Ali’s ongoing struggle against Nathan Lyon is reminiscent of the period where Glenn McGrath tormented me.
Poms in awe of ‘new Don’
Seventeen months after the heartache, Steve Smith stopped the world. Again.
‘Insatiable Smith has no peer’
Justin Langer says it is impossible to get Steve Smith out in the nets and nobody will be ordering him out any time soon.
Race to play at Lord’s
Australia is trying to figure out a way to squeeze Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood into the playing XI for Lord’s.
Where to now for battling England?
It tells a sorry story when your No 9 looks your most accomplished batsman. So what must do England do next?
England’s fortress stormed
You have to go back to 2005 for the last time an away side did in the Ashes what Australia have done here.
Calls to scrap neutral Test umpires
The shambolic standard of umpiring in the Ashes opener has intensified calls for the ICC to scrap its use of neutral umpires.
Win for true believers
To paraphrase that same PM, Australia did England slowly. Our boys backed themselves out of a corner that looked like a cul-de-sac.
Lyon king roars in epic win
Australia pull off a Test victory for the ages, beating England by 251 runs in the first match of the series | WATCH
Australia win the first Test
Australia have completed an incredible comeback to rout England and win the first Test, at Edgbaston | WATCH
The Miracle of Birmingham
Nathan Lyon sent English heads spinning with a six-wicket haul as Australia claimed the first Test at Edgbaston.
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