In Brisbane on Thursday, Test cricket will change colour. A day-night game means that, for the 25 th time, a Test match will be played with a pink ball. England’s hopes of regaining the Ashes rest on ...

The Athletic has launched a Cricket WhatsApp Channel. Click here to join. No team sport is quite so obsessed by the colour of the ball as cricket. Where the annual shift in English Premier League ...

Ben Stokes, Joe Root and Harry Brook digest defeat in Perth Philip Brown/Getty Images England have opted against handing their first-choice top-order batters match practice against a pink ball in a ...

The first Test match of the 2025 Ashes saw history being created as Australia won the opening game at the Optus Stadium in Perth by eight wickets in a stunning game that ended in just two days on ...

After a stunning victory in the first Test match, Australia will take on England in the second Ashes 2025-26 Test match at the Gabba in Brisbane. On one side, Australia aims to assert its dominance ...

Day-night Test cricket began in 2015 with the purpose of making Test cricket more exciting and giving fans a chance to watch the longest format after work hours. Even after ten years, pink-ball Tests ...

England 110 (Brook 41, Neser 4-45, Boland 3-30) and 178 for 6 (Bethell 40, Richardson 2-22) beat Australia 152 (Neser 35, ...