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 fixture was the first wink. The referee appointments, the second. The English presented two referees, but five ended up ...

England have snubbed a pink-ball warm-up for the second Ashes Test despite their humiliating first-Test defeat in a decision described as “nonsense”. England went 1-0 down in the series after a ...

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 ...