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The 2025–26 Ashes series is an upcoming series of Test cricket matches to be played between Australia and England for The Ashes, between November 2025 and January 2026. [1] [2] The five-match series will form part of the 2025–2027 ICC World Test Championship.
India also participated in an ODI tri-series with Australia and Zimbabwe. The Test series was drawn 1–1, and India retained the Border–Gavaskar Trophy because of their victory in the Trophy's previous contest. In the 2003–04 series' Adelaide Test, Rahul Dravid scored a double century, securing a famous win for India.
Instead, Adelaide hosted the first Test from 9 December and the Brisbane hosted the second Test from 17 December. [1] [2] [3] Following the draw in the third Test, Indian captain MS Dhoni announced his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect. [4] After the draw in the final Test in Sydney, Australia won the series 2–0.
The final Test of the series was the first Ashes Test ever to be held in Hobart, and the first Test match to be held in Tasmania since 2016. It was also the first day/night Test at the Bellerive Oval, and made 2021/22 the first Ashes series in Australia without a Test in Perth since 1965/66.
The test series was preceded by one first class match between the South Africans and the Australian A squad. [2] Michael Clarke became the first man to score four double-centuries in a calendar year, when he passed the 200-run mark in the first innings of the second Test in Adelaide. [3]
2nd Test - Adelaide Oval: 6-10 December. 3rd Test - The Gabba, Brisbane: 14-18 December. 4th Test - Melbourne Cricket Ground: 26-30 December. 5th Test - Sydney Cricket Ground: 3-7 January.
The worst figures in a match in Test cricket were taken by South Africa's Imran Tahir in the second Test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval in November 2012. He returned figures of 0/180 from his 23 overs in the first innings and 0/80 off 14 in the third innings for a total of 0/260 from 37 overs. [ 140 ]
Rather than send England in again, Ponting chose to bat. Australia went on to win the Test. In the second Test, England batted first and made 551/6 declared. However, Australia went on to win the Test. The English first innings score thus became the largest ever to be attained by a team batting first and declaring only to lose the match.