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Australia vs England, 1st Test at Perth, The Ashes, Nov 21 2025 - Playing XI

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1st Test, Perth, November 21 - 25, 2025, The Ashes

(9.1 ov) 172 & 40/1

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Day 2 - Session 1: England lead by 80 runs.

Current RR: 4.36

• Min. Ov. Rem: 72.5

	Australia	England
1	Jake Weatherald top-order batter	Zak Crawley top-order batter
2	Marnus Labuschagne top-order batter	Ben Duckett top-order batter
3	Steven Smith (c) top-order batter	Ollie Pope middle-order batter
4	Usman Khawaja top-order batter	Joe Root top-order batter
5	Travis Head middle-order batter	Harry Brook middle-order batter
6	Cameron Green batting allrounder	Ben Stokes (c) allrounder
7	Alex Carey † wicketkeeper batter	Jamie Smith † wicketkeeper batter
8	Mitchell Starc bowler	Gus Atkinson bowler
9	Nathan Lyon bowler	Brydon Carse bowling allrounder
10	Scott Boland bowler	Jofra Archer bowler
11	Brendan Doggett bowler	Mark Wood bowler
Bench
12	Josh Inglis † wicketkeeper batter	Jacob Bethell batting allrounder
13	Michael Neser bowling allrounder	Will Jacks batting allrounder
14	Beau Webster allrounder	Matthew Potts bowler
15	-	Shoaib Bashir bowler
16	-	Josh Tongue bowler

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