{"id":224732,"date":"2025-10-25T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224732\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:16:07","slug":"england-v-australia-rugby-league-ashes-first-test-live-updates-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224732\/","title":{"rendered":"England v Australia: rugby league Ashes first Test \u2013 live updates | Rugby league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p>Show key events only<\/p>\n<p>Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">While we\u2019re considering the previous Ashes series in 2003. The first test last time out featured GB\u2019s Adrian Morley being sent off after 12 seconds for a shocking high shot on Robbie Kearns. It happened so fast the camera had not even zoomed in from the wide kick-off angle to where the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Here is Morley himself reflecting on it recently\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=England v Australia: rugby league Ashes first Test \u2013 live updates&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/oct\/25\/england-v-australia-rugby-league-ashes-first-test-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-68fcc4eb8f08e0ae8c400df6#block-68fcc4eb8f08e0ae8c400df6\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-1mulgdf\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI looked at my kids and had tears in my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A lovely piece here about Leeds and England prop Mikolaj Oledzki, whose family arrived here from Gdansk when he was a child, and what it means to be in the squad for this series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=England v Australia: rugby league Ashes first Test \u2013 live updates&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/oct\/25\/england-v-australia-rugby-league-ashes-first-test-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-68fcb3dd8f0837a8ea39342e#block-68fcb3dd8f0837a8ea39342e\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-1mulgdf\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Some reflections on what lies ahead to get you in the mood before the match.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=England v Australia: rugby league Ashes first Test \u2013 live updates&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/oct\/25\/england-v-australia-rugby-league-ashes-first-test-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-68fcb3308f0857c13d1644f2#block-68fcb3308f0857c13d1644f2\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-1mulgdf\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If you have an opinion on this match or anything else, then I\u2019d love to read it. Send them in to me on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/oct\/25\/mailto:lee.calvert.casual@guardian.co.uk\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=England v Australia: rugby league Ashes first Test \u2013 live updates&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/oct\/25\/england-v-australia-rugby-league-ashes-first-test-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-68fcb2a78f0837a8ea39341d#block-68fcb2a78f0837a8ea39341d\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-1mulgdf\">Share<\/a>Teams<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">England: Jack Welsby, Dom Young, Herbie Farnworth, Jake Wardle, Tom Johnstone, George Williams (c), Mikey Lewis, Ethan Havard, Daryl Clark, Matty Lees, John Bateman, Kai Pearce-Paul, Morgan Knowles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Interchanges: Jez Litten, Alex Walmsley, Owen Trout, Mike McMeeken<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Australia: Reece Walsh, Mark Nawaqanitawase, Kotoni Staggs, Gehamat Shibasaki, Josh Addo-Carr, Cameron Munster, Nathan Cleary, Patrick Carrigan, Harry Grant, Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui, Angus Crichton, Hudson Young, Isaah Yeo (c).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Interchanges: Tom Dearden, Lindsay Collins, Reuben Cotter, Keaon Koloamatangi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=England v Australia: rugby league Ashes first Test \u2013 live updates&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/oct\/25\/england-v-australia-rugby-league-ashes-first-test-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-68fcbdae8f0857c13d164539#block-68fcbdae8f0857c13d164539\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-1mulgdf\">Share<\/a>Preamble<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Welcome to the opening test of the 2025 Ashes series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In rugby league, Ashes tests are like buses, come along as they do in threes very infrequently. Today is the start of the latest trio of matches after a 22 year wait since the fabulously sponsored \u201cTHINK! Don\u2019t Drink And Drive!\u201d series of 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Buses can also mercilessly run over groups of people, and Australia have made a habit of releasing the brakes on their considerable heft to smash opposition from these islands for 55 years. The Kangaroos have won all 13 series since the last British victory in 1970 and come into this year\u2019s installment as favourites to do the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A Great Britain team made up of a majority of English players lost the 2003 series to a whitewash despite leading all three tests in the second half; this was before the Australian class did enough late in each game to record an overall battering in that year\u2019s sports almanac. The Kangaroos remain formidable two decades on, but England also have a greater number of players appearing weekly in the NRL down under than at any time previously, including the impressive Herbie Farnworth. The mystique and terror of the green and gold juggernaut arriving on these shores is not what it once was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Even with that, turning the bus around and claiming victory after half a century of trying remains a huge challenge for Shaun Wane\u2019s England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=England v Australia: rugby league Ashes first Test \u2013 live updates&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/oct\/25\/england-v-australia-rugby-league-ashes-first-test-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-68fb4cff8f08951f69bbc44c#block-68fb4cff8f08951f69bbc44c\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-1mulgdf\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a009.06 EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature While we\u2019re considering the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}