Australia dominate England to win second Test in Brisbane

Australia instrumentality a stranglehold of cricket’s oldest trial bid with a decisive eight-wicket triumph astatine The Gabba.

Australia cruised to an emphatic eight-wicket triumph implicit England successful the day-night 2nd Ashes Test successful Brisbane connected Sunday for an ominous 2-0 pb successful the series.

The hosts chased down the paltry people of 65 successful conscionable 10 overs, skipper Steve Smith pulling Gus Atkinson for a immense six implicit quadrate limb for the winning runs.

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Although not arsenic humiliating arsenic the two-day nonaccomplishment successful the archetypal Test successful Perth, England were comprehensively outplayed successful Brisbane successful each department.

Their batting, isolated from Joe Root and Zak Crawley successful the archetypal innings and skipper Ben Stokes and Will Jacks successful the second, was conscionable arsenic rash arsenic successful Perth.

They gave their wickets distant with mediocre strokes connected the bouncy Gabba surface.

They besides bowled poorly, pitching excessively abbreviated connected the Gabba wicket and wasting the caller pinkish ball, successful stark opposition to an Australian onslaught missing spearheads Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.

To marque matters worse England dropped 5 catches successful the archetypal innings, whereas Australia’s fielders caught everything that came their way.

Josh Inglis’s superb run-out of Stokes successful the archetypal innings changed the people of the match.

Australia present person a 2-0 pb successful the five-Test bid and are overwhelming favourites to clasp the Ashes with matches successful Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney to follow.

England were down the crippled erstwhile they fto Australia’s process assistance the location broadside station 511 connected Saturday, an wide pb of 177.

They past mislaid six second-innings wickets nether lights to extremity the 3rd time 134-6, inactive 43 runs down the Australian total.

While galore expected England to surrender meekly connected Sunday, Stokes and all-rounder Jacks led a warring rearguard enactment to guarantee Australia had to bat a 2nd time.

Stokes and Jacks defied the Australian gait onslaught connected a fiercely blistery time to borderline their mode past the archetypal shortage people and statesman to acceptable Australia thing to chase.

Steve Smith hits the winning runs for Australia connected Day 4 of the 2nd Ashes Series Test astatine The Gabba connected December 07, 2025 successful Brisbane, Australia [Darrian Traynor/Getty Images]

Flicker of resistance

England batting manager Marcus Trescothick said Saturday his batsmen would not alteration their assertive approach, contempt a clatter of wickets from mediocre shots.

But Stokes and Jacks did the nonstop other during the archetypal league Sunday.

They near balls they didn’t request to play and seemed blessed to instrumentality their runs successful singles alternatively than expansive bound shots.

They scored conscionable 28 runs successful the archetypal hr and passed the 43-run shortage 96 minutes into the session, scoring lone 59 runs successful the 2 hours.

The Australian bowlers, who ran rampant nether lights connected Saturday with the pinkish ball, were acold much ineffective connected Sunday, contempt the wicket opening to play immoderate tricks.

The English offered lone 1 accidental erstwhile Scott Boland squared up Stokes, who got a heavy borderline implicit the slips cordon.

They continued to frustrate the Australians successful the 2nd league until conscionable earlier the drinks break, Jacks got an borderline to Michael Neser and Smith snared a breath-taking drawback astatine slip, diving afloat magnitude to his near and catching it debased to the ground.

Neser struck again successful the adjacent implicit erstwhile Stokes nibbled astatine a shot extracurricular the off-stump and got a good borderline to keeper Alex Carey to permission England 227-8, a pb of precisely 50.

Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse and Jofra Archer offered nary existent absorption arsenic Neser recorded career-best figures of 5-42 and Smith equalled Rahul Dravid connected 210 outfield catches, 3 down existent record-holder Root.

Sixty-five was ne'er going to beryllium capable and though Australia mislaid Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne successful the chase, Smith and Jake Weatherald guided the location broadside to an casual triumph successful style.

The 3rd trial starts December 17 astatine the Adelaide Oval with England needing a triumph to person immoderate accidental of reclaiming the Ashes. The 4th trial starts Boxing Day astatine the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Sydney volition big the 5th trial from January 4.

Australia skipper Steve Smith, right, shakes hands with England skipper Ben Stokes aft going 2-0 up successful the best-of-five trial bid [Hollie Adams/Reuters]