The dust is settling on the first Ashes Test in Perth in which England were beaten by Australia. At lunch on day two, the visitors looked to be in control of the Test. By the end of the day, it

England’s disappearing act in Perth was branded “an affront to Test cricket,’’ so poor it made one correspondent feel ill.

The ground is hosting its first Ashes Test but will replicate the pace and bounce that made the WACA, across the Swan River, so feared

The West Test reached a television audience of 5.8 million people across Australia, as the Perth pitch proved too hot for England to handle.

How do you even begin to measure the ineptitude of England’s batting here? Perhaps it is the fact that they bowled Australia out for 132 and yet still contrived to lose by eight wickets in two days. Or that Alastair Cook faced more balls in making his Brisbane double century in 2010 than the entire team did across two innings of this pulverising in Perth.

Here's what Stuart Broad had to say about his viral moment during the Perth Test, which saw him closing his eyes after the dismissal of Joe Root.

England punished for batting collapses as they crash to two-day defeat in first Ashes Test; media get out flamethrowers, calling tourists gutless and feeble; should England now field senior players in pink-ball warm-up ahead of second Test vs Australia in Brisbane from December 4?

The opening day of the 2025/26 Ashes didn’t disappoint as 19 wickets fell on a record-breaking day. Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bat with England making it to 172 all out. But in