{"id":239973,"date":"2025-10-25T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239973\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:50:09","slug":"live-blog-ashes-first-test-england-vs-australia-scores-commentary-updates-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239973\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE BLOG: Ashes first Test, England vs Australia scores, commentary, updates – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first Ashes Test in over two decades is here, with England<\/a> to take on Australia<\/a> in London at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n

Kick-off is scheduled for 12:30am (AEDT), and you can follow all the action here in our live blog.<\/p>\n

Scroll down for live match commentary. This page will refresh every two minutes. Use the match centre widget below to click through for match stats.<\/p>\n

15′ – England 0 – Australia 0
England struggle for metres in this set, then it’s a low kick down the ground from inside 40. Australia bringing it back through the backs.<\/p>\n

14′ – England 0 – Australia 0
An average set from Australia. Not much happening, then a shallow, not high enough kick from Cleary. England come up with it.<\/p>\n

13′ – England 0 – Australia 0
Captains challenge, and it’s going to be successful. Not overly clever from John Bateman<\/a> who gives Reece Walsh’s head a bit of a shove in the play the ball.<\/p>\n

13′ – England 0 – Australia 0
A fast paced opening here. No penalties, no six agains, but here is an error from Australia<\/a> as they bring it out of their own end. England<\/a> with another huge opportunity here. Ruled a sloppy play the ball from Walsh.<\/p>\n

12′ – England 0 – Australia 0
Australia’s set ends in a bomb down to the corner. Good take from Johnstone under pressure from Nawaqanitawase.<\/p>\n

10′ – England 0 – Australia 0
England<\/a> bomb an opportunity here. A long floating ball over the top, but it’s well off the mark and heads over the sideline with Young unable to track it down.<\/p>\n

8′ – England 0 – Australia 0
Looks like Yeo may be concussed here. Young went straight through him and Carrigan, and Walsh then knocked down a pass to save the day with the line break.<\/p>\n

Yeo is indeed off for a HIA.<\/p>\n

6′ – England 0 – Australia 0
Now England<\/a> knock it on as they go onto the attack. Some early game nerves here.<\/p>\n

5′ – England 0 – Australia 0
Ordinary set to the right for the Kangaroos. Young had it, tried to get an arm free to force a pass and dropped it.<\/p>\n

4′ – England 0 – Australia 0
Australia<\/a> now muscling up in defence, but a good run from Dominic Young<\/a> reverses momentum for a brief moment. The end of the set is slow for England<\/a> though and Williams has to kick from short of halfway down to Addo-Carr.<\/p>\n

3′ – England 0 – Australia 0
Australia<\/a> working it out of their own end through the backs, with Addo-Carr involved. Fa’asuamaleaui and Yeo have good runs up to halfway, then Munster kicks on the left. It’s high rather than long, but no pressure on Welsby as he brings it back and shifts to Johnstone who was almost through but is tackled by Staggs.<\/p>\n

2′ – England 0 – Australia 0
The English backs ripping in early in this set before Pearce-Paul ha sa run on the left. They finish just short of halfway, and a long kick from Williams is brought back by Nawaqanitawase.<\/p>\n

1′ – England 0 – Australia 0
So, away we go! England<\/a> meeting the first couple of tackles with heavy contact, then Grant gets a run in. Australia<\/a> make it to halfway and kick long.<\/p>\n

0′ – England 0 – Australia 0
Liam Moore is our referee. England<\/a> to kick-off.<\/p>\n

12:30am
Anthems done. It’s go time at Wembley.<\/p>\n

12:26am
Time for the national anthems. Australia<\/a> first, then England<\/a>. Kick-off straight after that.<\/p>\n

12:25am
England<\/a> do make the Aussies wait, but eventually George Williams<\/a> leads them out – plenty, if not all, of the home players wearing jackets. That wasn’t the case for the green and gold.<\/p>\n

12:23am
And here come the Aussies, led by Isaah Yeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

12:21am
Expect the teams aren’t far away from making an appearance at Wembley as we prepare for kick-off.<\/p>\n

12:10am
The Kangaroos team has finally been confirmed. No changes. <\/p>\n

It’s available on the link further down this blog or through our match centre above.<\/p>\n

20 minutes to kick-off.<\/p>\n

12:04am
Some other big international rugby league on today. France<\/a> against Jamaica<\/a> for a spot in the Rugby League<\/a> World Cup next year.<\/p>\n

The Kangaroos still haven’t released their final team, by the way.<\/p>\n

Crowd building nicely at Wembley. Should be a cracking atmosphere.<\/p>\n

11:54pm
The wait goes on for a Kangaroos team list…<\/p>\n

I have to say, this feels like it could be an ambush waiting to happen. No real preparation for the Kangaroos and 60,000 tickets sold on a cold day at Wembley.<\/p>\n

England<\/a> might just find a way to go 1-0 up here.<\/p>\n

11:45pm
We are still waiting for a Kangaroos team to be confirmed here. In the meantime, have a look at the comparison between this side, and the last Ashes team of 2003<\/a>!<\/p>\n

11:40pm
Maybe no surprise as the Northern Hemipshere heads into winter, but it’s not exactly warm. 11 degrees at the moment with a chance of rain throughout the game.<\/p>\n

11:23pm
First thing is first – England<\/a> have named their team.<\/p>\n

You can check it out here, but AJ Brimson<\/a> is the 18th man, Jake Wardle<\/a> is in the centres, and the rest is more or less as expected.<\/p>\n

We are still waiting for the final 17 for Australia<\/a>, but not expecting any changes.<\/p>\n

11:20pm
Hello, Good Evening and Welcome to Zero Tackle’s live coverage of the first Ashes Test from London. Scott Pryde here to take you through all the action over the next couple of hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Ashes Test in over two decades is here, with England to take on Australia in London…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-239973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}