The fifth Test of the 2025-26 Ashes series is being played in Sydney and starts on Sunday, 4 January.<\/p>\n
Play will start at the Sydney Cricket Ground at 10:30 local time, or 23:30 GMT on Saturday for followers in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Australia hold an unassailable 3-1 series lead after winning the first three Tests in Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide, but England will be looking to end the series on a high after picking up their first Test victory in Australia since 2011 last time out in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
England have not won in Sydney since 2011, when Alastair Cook scored 189 in the first innings as the tourists triumphed by an innings and 83 runs.<\/p>\n
Australia have the better record of the two nations at the SCG, winning 27 times to England’s 22 Test victories.<\/p>\n
A total of eight draws have been played – including the 2022 match, when Stuart Broad and last batter Jimmy Anderson survived the final 12 balls.<\/p>\n
Full match commentary will be available via Test Match Special on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra<\/a> and BBC Sounds<\/a> from 22:55 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fifth Test of the 2025-26 Ashes series is being played in Sydney and starts on Sunday, 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-378852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378852","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=378852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}