Best performances - Batsmen
TM Head
163(166) 24x4 - 1x6
Control %74%
- Productive Shot
- cut shot
- 41 runs
- 8x4 - 0x6
JE Root
160(242) 15x4 - 0x6
Control %83%
- Productive Shot
- cover drive
- 28 runs
- 3x4 - 0x6
03/01Result
5th Test, England tour of Australia at Sydney, Jan 4-8 2026
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![England]( "England")
384 & 342 -
![Australia]( "Australia")
567 & 161/5 (31.2 ov)
Player of the Match
03/01Result
5th Test, England tour of Australia at Sydney, Jan 4-8 2026
-
![England]( "England")
384 & 342 -
![Australia]( "Australia")
567 & 161/5 (31.2 ov)
Player of the Match
Best performances - Bowlers
Partnerships
- ENG - 1st
- AUS - 1st
- ENG - 2nd
- AUS - 2nd
England - 1st - Innings
Australia - 1st - Innings
England - 2nd - Innings
Australia - 2nd - Innings
Match Coverage
All Match NewsIs Ben Stokes the highest run-getter among Ashes players who were born outside England or Australia?
And what's the record for most fifty partnerships in a Test innings?
The urn spurned: How naivety and decay wrecked England's Ashes ambitions
With only a handful of exceptions, England's cricketers proved too callow to stand up to the scrutiny of an Australia tour
McCullum open to England 'evolution' but won't give up control
If he is not "able to steer the ship", head coach concedes, "maybe there is someone better" for job
Switch Hit: Crash and (b)urn
England went down 4-1 after another Ashes defeat in Sydney. On the pod, Alan Gardner was joined by Andrew Miller and Andrew McGlashan to sum up a grisly tour
'Outrageous': Starc, Australia's Ironman, pushes to new highs
The left-arm quick was still hurling them down at 145kph late in a series where he broke the 30-wicket mark
