Australia vs England Live Score - Live Cricket Scorecard AUS vs ENG, 5th Test, England tour of Australia, 2025/26, Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), Sydney
CRICKET MATCH TEAMS
Australia- Travis Head
- Jake Weatherald
- Marnus Labuschagne
- Steve Smith (C)
- Usman Khawaja
- Alex Carey (W)
- Cameron Green
- Beau Webster
- Michael Neser
- Mitchell Starc
- Scott Boland
Australia vs England MATCH INFO
- Toss:England, who chose to bat
- Series:The Ashes, 2025/26
- Venue:Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), Sydney
- Umpires:Ahsan Raza (PAK), Chris Gaffaney (NZ) and Kumar Dharmasena (SL)
- Match Referee:Jeff Crowe (NZ)
- Match Date:Sun, 04th Jan 2026
AUSTRALIA Team Players
ENGLAND Team Players
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31.1: Will Jacks to Alex Carey, Floated into the batter. Alex Carey defends this off his front foot.
- End of over 31
- AUS157/5
- Australia Batting C Green 22(27) A Carey 12(25)
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30.6: Brydon Carse to Cameron Green, FOUR MORE! Down to a hit now. Short, wide on off, Cameron Green hops up on his toes and cuts this square, away to the right of the backward point fielder for four more runs.
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30.5: Brydon Carse to Cameron Green, Carse comes around the stumps, darts a short one, around middle and off, Cameron Green ducks down but takes one on the left shoulder for the side.
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30.4: Brydon Carse to Cameron Green, FOUR! Just 7 more needed after this boundary. Back of a length around off, Cameron Green rides the bounce of this one, hops onto his back foot and punches this behind square on off for a boundary. 150 UP FOR AUSTRALIA!
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30.3: Brydon Carse to Alex Carey, Short pitched, on leg. Alex Carey dabs this to deep backward square leg for a single.
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30.2: Brydon Carse to Alex Carey, Back of a length on leg, Alex Carey glances it off the hip. Short leg gets a hand to it, but parries it behind him. Carey sets off for a run, but Green quickly sends him back on a sharp call.
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30.1: Brydon Carse to Cameron Green, Back of a length around off, Cameron Green punches this through the cover region for a single. Australia now need just 12 more to win.
- End of over 30
- AUS147/5
- Australia Batting A Carey 11(23) C Green 13(23)
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29.6: Will Jacks to Alex Carey, Flighted around off, Alex Carey plays the reverse sweep and rolls this to point for no run.
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29.5: Will Jacks to Cameron Green, THREE BYES! A top-spinner around middle and off, turning sharply down the leg stump from the rough, with extra bounce too. Cameron Green rocks back and bails out of the flick, as the ball beats both bat and keeper before trickling away towards deep fine leg for three byes, as it is hunted down by the deep backward square leg fielder to his right.
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29.4: Will Jacks to Cameron Green, Quicker and flatter, on off. Cameron Green blocks.
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29.3: Will Jacks to Cameron Green, A bit more of yes-no between the batters. Tossed up, around off, Cameron Green pushes this to the left of Jacob Bethell at cover and Alex Carey sets off for one. Green sends him back just in time.
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29.2: Will Jacks to Cameron Green, Fuller one, wide of off, around the rough patch. Green blocks this from the inside of his bat to short leg.
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29.1: Will Jacks to Cameron Green, Tossed up, on middle and off. Cameron Green blocks this out.
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88.2: Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, OUT! CHIPPED AND TAKEN! Wicket number 31 for Mitchell Starc in this Ashes as he finishes off with a 3-for. Lands it around off, on a good length, and it seemingly kicks up a bit. Josh Tongue tries to crack the drive through the off side, but does not account for the bounce. Chips it straight to short cover where Marnus Labuschagne takes a straightforward catch. Josh Tongue is gone on 6 off 14. ENGLAND ARE BOWLED OUT ON 342, WITH THE LEAD OF 159 RUNS!
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88.1: Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, Swings back in on a length, on middle and leg, Josh Tongue hangs back and bunts it to the off side.
- End of over 88
- ENG342/9
- England Batting M Potts 18(43) J Tongue 6(12)
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87.6: Scott Boland to Matthew Potts, Good length around off, Matthew Potts dabs this back to the bowler.
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87.5: Scott Boland to Matthew Potts, Hard length, around off, Matthew Potts pokes at it but gets beaten on the outside.
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87.4: Scott Boland to Matthew Potts, Good length around off, Potts leaves it.
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87.3: Scott Boland to Matthew Potts, Back of a length around off, Matthew Potts punches this towards sweeper cover and doesn't take the single. Number 10 protecting number 11.
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87.2: Scott Boland to Matthew Potts, On a length around off, Matthew Potts keeps it out.
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87.1: Scott Boland to Matthew Potts, Back of a length, around the pads. Matthew Potts looks for the flick but misses.
- End of over 87
- ENG342/9
- England Batting J Tongue 6(12) M Potts 18(37)
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86.6: Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, Short and on off. Josh Tongue plays within the line of it and leaves it.
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86.5: Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, Full and wide outside off, Josh leaves it.
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86.4: Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, FOUR! CRACKED! Pitched up, around middle and off, Josh Tongue gets on the front foot and presents a straight bat at it. Punches this down the ground towards the long off fence for four runs.
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86.3: Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, On a length, wide of off, Josh Tongue pokes at it away from his body but gets beaten.
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86.2: Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, Short pitched, down the leg. Tongue leaves it.
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86.1: Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, Good length, around off. Josh Tongue pokes at it but gets beaten on the outside.
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133.5: Will Jacks to Scott Boland, OUT! EDGED AND CAUGHT! A wicket for Jacks and a golden duck for Boland. Pushed through, flat and around off, spinning in with some bounce. Scott Boland is neither fully committed on the front foot, nor his weight has transferred on the back foot, just somewhere in between and he pokes at it. Gets a thick outside edge that goes flat to Harry Brook at first slip. He gathers it safely. AUSTRALIA ARE BOWLED OUT FOR 567, LEADING BY 183 RUNS!
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133.4: Will Jacks to Beau Webster, Full and around off, Webster draws his front foot out and works it away to deep point for a single.
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133.3: Will Jacks to Beau Webster, He taps this length ball that spins into him, towards short mid-wicket.
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133.2: Will Jacks to Beau Webster, Spins in a touch, on a length, nudged across to square leg.
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133.1: Will Jacks to Beau Webster, Floated full, on the leg stump line, Webster sweeps it fine off the edge, and the ball loses its steam in the outfield. Deep square leg runs to his right and cuts it off. Two runs taken.
- End of over 133
- AUS564/9
- Australia Batting M Starc 5(14) B Webster 68(83)
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132.6: Josh Tongue to Mitchell Starc, OUT! KNOCKED HIM OVER! Wonder how this bloke didn't play all the Tests Down Under. Number 3 for Tongue off an absolute ripper of a delivery. Too good for a tailender to deal with to be very honest. He slants the ball into the southpaw, pitching it on a fractionally fuller length. It lands right on the seam and on one of those indentations around the middle stump line, and nips in prodigiously. Starc drags the bat in front to block, but plays over the line and the ball beats his inside edge to crash into the leg stump. Mitchell Starc departs on 5 (14) and Australia are 564/9, with a lead of 180 runs.
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132.5: Josh Tongue to Mitchell Starc, Back of a length around off, Mitchell Starc punches this down the ground for a couple.
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132.4: Josh Tongue to Beau Webster, Short pitched, on middle and leg. Beau pulls this through mid-wicket for one.
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132.3: Josh Tongue to Mitchell Starc, Short and wide of off, Mitchell Starc guides this through point for a single.
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132.2: Josh Tongue to Mitchell Starc, Good length around off, Mitchell Starc pushes at it but gets beaten.
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132.1: Josh Tongue to Mitchell Starc, PEACH! Good length, angling into the batter and shaping away around the pads of Starc. The batter moves down to his leg and looks to flick but gets beaten. This wasn't far from his stumps as well.
- End of over 132
- AUS560/8
- Australia Batting B Webster 67(82) M Starc 2(9)
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131.6: Brydon Carse to Beau Webster, Slower one, around off, on a length. Beau Webster blocks this one.
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131.5: Brydon Carse to Beau Webster, Good length around off, Beau Webster keeps it out.
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131.4: Brydon Carse to Beau Webster, 4 LEG BYES! Good length, slanting down the leg, Beau Webster comes inside the line and goes for the flick. Gets it tickled off his pads to the left of the keeper for a boundary to the fine leg fence.
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131.3: Brydon Carse to Beau Webster, Hard length, on top of off, Ben Duckett blocks this off his back foot.
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131.2: Brydon Carse to Beau Webster, Full and wide outside off, Beau Webster leans onto the pitch of it, opens the bat face and slices this through the gap at point for a couple.
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131.1: Brydon Carse to Mitchell Starc, OUT! KNOCKED HIM OVER! Number three for Tongue. Mitchell Starc departs on 5 (14) and Australia are 564/9, leading by 180 runs.
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97.3: Michael Neser to Josh Tongue, OUT! TIMBER! Michael Neser goes bang, bang and wraps up proceedings rather quickly. Neser bowls it fuller and around off, gets the ball to nip back in sharply. Josh Tongue looks to play down the lie but is beaten all ends up and the ball knocks over the stumps, going past the blade. Tongue departs for a two-ball duck and England are bowled out for 384.
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97.2: Michael Neser to Josh Tongue, Oh, that is a snorter from Neser. A short ball on the money, around off and at shoulder height, nipping away with extra bounce. Josh Tongue does well to sway away from the line of the ball.
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97.1: Michael Neser to Joe Root, OUT! CAUGHT AND BOWLED! Oh, that is a special effort from Michael Neser and that marks the end of a marathon knock from Joe Root. Neser goes a touch wider of the crease and bowls it short at the batter. Root looks to step across and get inside the line but gets cramped up and awkwardly plays at it. The top edge is found and the ball lobs up to the leg side. Neser scampers across and puts in a brilliant dive to pouch it with both hands. Root walks back to a standing ovation from the SCG crowd as he departs for 160 (242).
- End of over 97
- ENG384/8
- England Batting M Potts 1(16) J Root 160(241)
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96.6: Cameron Green to Matthew Potts, On a good length and outside off, seams away quite a bit as well. Matthew Potts thinks about playting at it but does well to bail out of the shot.
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96.5: Cameron Green to Matthew Potts, Banged in short and over off, shaping away a bit. Potts sits under it and lets it through.
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96.4: Cameron Green to Matthew Potts, Hard length around offm Potts gets right behind the line and punches it down to mid off.
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96.3: Cameron Green to Matthew Potts, Back of a length and outside off, Potts rocks back and nudges it down to the right of gully where Usman Khawaja makes a good diving stop. Khawaja seems a bit hurt as he gets a blow o the already taped fingers.
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96.2: Cameron Green to Matthew Potts, Attempted bumper over middle, sails over the batter's head and Matthew Potts ducks under it well.
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96.1: Cameron Green to Joe Root, Very full on off and middle, Root gets across and nudges it away to deep mid-wicket for a single.
- End of over 96
- ENG383/8
- England Batting M Potts 1(11) J Root 159(240)
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95.6: Michael Neser to Matthew Potts, Nagging length around off, Potts leans on to defend. A maiden over from Michael Neser.
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95.5: Michael Neser to Matthew Potts, That's a beauty! Good-length delivery in the channel, angled in as well. This one hits the deck and seams away sharply with extra bounce. Potts leans on to block but is take aback and does well to not edge it behind.
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95.4: Michael Neser to Matthew Potts, On a hard length and outside off, seaming away, much easier leave this time for Potts.
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95.3: Michael Neser to Matthew Potts, Oh, that jagged back! On a good length and outside off, angling in, Matthew Potts shoulders arms but this one stays low and nearly shaves the top of off stump.
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95.2: Michael Neser to Matthew Potts, Fuller and straighter at the stumps, Potts covers the line well and blocks it off.
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95.1: Michael Neser to Matthew Potts, Full of a good length and in the channel outside off, Potts leans on and makes a watchful leave.
31.2: Will Jacks to Alex Carey, FOUR! ALEX CAREY HITS THE WINNING RUNS! Tossed up, around off, Alex Carey strides to the pitch of the delivery and drives this one away to the right of the extra cover fielder for a boundary to wrap the game and the series. Australia have won this game by 5 wickets and have clinched the Ashes series 4-1.