Best performances - Batsmen
TM Head
46(67) 4x4 - 0x6
Control %67%
- Productive Shot
- cut shot
- 8 runs
- 1x4 - 0x6
HC Brook
41(34) 2x4 - 2x6
Control %76%
- Productive Shot
- flick
- 10 runs
- 1x4 - 0x6
25/12Result
4th Test, England tour of Australia at Melbourne, Dec 26-27 2025
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![Australia]( "Australia")
152 & 132 -
![England]( "England")
110 & 178/6 (32.2 ov)
Player of the Match
25/12Result
4th Test, England tour of Australia at Melbourne, Dec 26-27 2025
-
![Australia]( "Australia")
152 & 132 -
![England]( "England")
110 & 178/6 (32.2 ov)
Player of the Match
Best performances - Bowlers
Partnerships
- AUS - 1st
- ENG - 1st
- AUS - 2nd
- ENG - 2nd
Australia - 1st - Innings
England - 1st - Innings
Australia - 2nd - Innings
England - 2nd - Innings
Match Coverage
All Match NewsWhat's the highest Test partnership between people who were born on the same day?
And how many Test series have featured two or more Tests that finished in two days?
Switch Hit: MCG so... weird
England won a Test in Australia for the first time in 15 years, to much head-scratching. Alan Gardner was joined by Andrew Miller and Alex Malcolm to assess another two-day finish
Bethell late than never, but No. 3 is his to lose now
At the MCG, after the Ashes had been lost, it was evident that England should have made the big call to start the series with Jacob Bethell at No. 3 instead of Ollie Pope
Memo to Australia and England: honour the format that has elevated you
The MCG Test offered a sorry spectacle, courtesy batters who could not dig down - unlike their Ashes predecessors
ICC rates MCG Boxing Day Test pitch 'unsatisfactory'
The ICC has a four-tier pitch-rating system, with "unsatisfactory" in third place; the rating also means that the MCG will be handed a demerit point
