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Australia vs England, 5th Test at Sydney, The Ashes, Jan 04 2026 - Playing XI

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5th Test, Sydney, January 04 - 08, 2026, The Ashes

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(85.3 ov) 384 & 330/9

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Day 5 - Session 1: England lead by 147 runs.

Current RR: 3.85

• Min. Ov. Rem: 87.3

• Last 10 ov (RR): 24/1 (2.40)

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

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