Predicting The Ashes is a fool's errand (as anyone who's backed England in recent years won't need telling), but the 2025/26 edition feels especially uncertain. England's last victory in 2015 has been followed by a pair of Australia wins and two draws that have seen the Baggy Green retain the urn, and they haven't won on Aussie soil since the 2010/11 tour. And yet.

The hosts are unsettled. Not only does the top order need to be worked out on the fly, but Josh Hazlewood has now joined Australia captain Pat Cummins in the physio room. With Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood in the Enland squad, it goes without saying that the tourists will have injury concerns of their own, but if they can make the most of their opponents' issues early on, that decade-long drought will be there for the

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